Quotes About Influence

It becomes very difficult for us to adjust to a world without social media because we spend so much time involved with it.

I never had the influence of any other singer in my music, so I sounded like myself all the time.

God's advice trumps Oprah's every time.

How did this or that change my music? The only time I have to think about it is when an interviewer asks me that.

Growing up, I never heard my parents curse, never. The first time I ever said a curse word was with my sister Kim.

Many of us carry memories of an influential teacher who may scarcely know we existed, yet who said something at just the right time in our lives to snap a whole world into focus.

In a time of polarized politics there's one thing that more than ninety percent of Americans agree on, that our government is broken, and broken because of the money in politics.

When I was 6, I saw a commercial that Jessica Simpson was in and that was the first time I felt my little heart flutter.

Music definitely inspires my design all the time.

During that time, I began writing and designing the propaganda that we distributed to the students who we were trying to convince to join us.

I do not want to pass the time. I want to grab hold of it and leave my mark upon the world.

You hope you impact people on the deepest level you are capable of at the time. Sometimes you hit it, sometimes you don't. You're trying.

Armies, though always the supporters and tools of absolute power for the time being, are always the destroyers of it too; by frequently changing the hands in which they think proper to lodge it.

Its very difficult in our society. You cannot impose certain behavioral changes. Education can do it at the right time, probably by high school. After that it is too late.

To me we're living in this very profoundly non-idealogical time where the real divide is between people who have power and people who either don't have power or feel that they don't have power.

I don't think the Church has ever contributed anything to anybody, anyplace, at any time.

I think that there is never an indispensable leader, you know? I think that there is a time with dignity that one needs to leave.

Jean-Baptiste Mondino: "She's John Lennon and Yoko Ono at the same time".

You know, people really know me from 'The Best Man.' I've done five other movies since then, but it always comes back to 'The Best Man.' It was time to do the sequel.

The emergence of India as a major global power is an idea whose time has come.

One person at a time, one company at a time.

I tell people all the time that I was born and raised in Ronald Reagan's America.

Now Republicans are a more interventionist party than they have been at any time since George W. Bush left office.

It is time. You must lead. Ultimately everyone must at some time lead.