Quotes About Influence

'Aura' is what one reflects in the heart, what you bring into the world, and what people want to learn from you.

I grew up in a rough environment. You want to be strong and have your presence felt out there. That attitude reflects how people see you.

I'm a big fan of hip-hop, so it reflects in my approach.

NATO expansion and Russian expansion - one leads to the other, and one reflects the other.

These are clothes my friends and I could wear. This ain't Prada. I don't want to be one of those celebrities that slaps their name on a label and collects royalty checks. Everything on that runway reflects me.

New York and San Francisco are distinctly different. San Francisco is driving the American media, not New York. You have young, microwaved millionaires and billionaires reshaping the American media in a way that reflects San Francisco values.

Our interest in history always reflects our own times.

The way I've grown up, the manner I am today, reflects on my mother.

More than anything, I'm an American kid, and my music reflects that more so than being an Asian-American. I think it's important but also something that can detrimental to your career if celebrated too much.

You like the style of the people you like because it reflects something inside them.

The original sense of the word 'influence' is 'to flow into.' For the most part, these writers that I admire... their style flows into me without my intervention, which is what explains the broad range of writers who I've been compared with; it reflects my reading.

If we, as individuals, want to keep control of our democracy - rather than have a government paid for by corporate interest checks - then we have to fight back now and make sure our system reflects the belief that people, not corporations, control our democracy.

I try to be a friend to my boys just the way my dad was with me. Subconsciously that reflects in my writing.

Because Bollywood reflects society, we are all living in a society. We are not a special entity. So whatever prejudices society has for us, we carry into the films.

When the business interests... pushed through the first installment of civil service reform in 1883, they expected that they would be able to control both political parties equally.

Nobody wants campaign finance reform more than me. It would save me a fortune.

But having said that, what's happening with campaign finance reform and our political culture is devastating.

We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly.

The interests of the United States are better served by demanding reform and seeing that reform takes place than by removing our influence from the UN.

Real lobbying reform must end the practice of corporate lobbyists writing our laws.

If we expose the Chinese to our freedoms, it may create a greater hunger for democracy, reform and liberties in China.

We are the reformers. Reform ends if we leave, not just for us but also our friends in Europe who want our voice heard in Europe.

Would the Protestant Reformation have happened without the printing press? Would the American Revolution have happened without pamphlets? Probably not. But neither printing presses nor pamphlets were the heroes of reform and revolution.

Never forget, the real secret of giving advice is this: Once you've given it, don't concern yourself with whether it is followed or not, and refrain from saying 'I told you so.'