Quotes About Influence

Those that have wealth must be watchful and wary, Power, alas! naught but misery brings!

I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed.

Be mindful that the world that you want to live in and that you need to live in needs you to create it; it needs your input. The world needs to hear what you have to say. The last word has not been spoken.

I miss him still today: his long, whiskery eyebrows, his huge hands and hugs, his warmth, his prayers, his stories, but above all his shining example of how to live and how to die.

I'm not really sure which parts of myself are real and which parts are things I've gotten from books.

I just want people to know they are the masters of their own fortune and misfortune. A lot of us think that doctors and drugs are going to control and help us, but the reality is we're our own best doctor.

Democratic institutions are based on a reality of human nature: that those with power, however benign or even noble their intentions, will do what they can to keep it.

When I got picked up by the Tapout crew and was featured on their reality show, that really jumpstarted my career.

You have all these different reality shows, all social media, all these different things where people have to act a certain way to get attention.

Reality shows have a lot to answer for. They applaud mediocrity.

We have many candidates, like in reality television, but we don't really have a leader.

Anyone who's had a casual conversation with his neighbors or is cognizant of reality TV should already be petrified of democracy.

Reality TV has taken over.

Reality TV is here, it's been here really since the Carol Levis Discovery Show in 1957. It's never changed. It just looks a bit different.

Reality TV rots people's brains.

Reality TV is a lot about drama, but for the first time in a long time, you actually have role models on TV.

Don't go watching reality TV thinking your going to find a role model.

There is that whole realization that I'm not just speaking to Filipinos anymore: I'm speaking to a global audience.

It's always a little mind-boggling to realize that these famous actors know who I am.

I don't think people realize how life-altering running for president is.

You realize you have no control over how you're perceived.

One of the things you realize with a lot of high achievers: You have to figure out a way to make things their idea.

People don't realize the impact they have on your life.

People don't realize they have the power. People don't realize that if they come together, there are more of them than those who occupy the seat that I'm in right now.