Quotes About Influence

The sort of man you will make of yourself, how you will be regarded by the world, whether people will admire and respect or despise you, whether you win the approval or the condemnation of your Maker - all this is in your own hands.

Of course, I'd love to be regarded as a voice of authority.

Comedy. It was just huge in my house. Peter Sellers and Alec Guinness, Monty Python and all those James Bond movies were highly regarded.

In Britain I'm sometimes regarded as a suspiciously Europeanized writer, who has this rather dubious French influence.

In the old days we were the challenger brand competing against the big banks, but today I go round the world and I sit with governors of central banks and finance ministers and, in some cases, prime ministers. They all know Travelex. We are regarded as the establishment - the world's largest retailer of foreign currency.

When I started, TV was regarded as something that wasn't as great as film or theatre or radio, but it has proved to have far greater powers than those.

I don't necessarily think, as a person of influence, that it's always my job to influence people regarding my opinion.

Hillary Clinton has a strong and powerful voice regarding ending violence against women and girls.

The point guard is always the leader on the floor, regardless: the extension out there on the floor for the coach.

Celebrity culture is an aspirational culture regardless of how much you don't want it to be.

To be a leader, regardless of what party you're in, is to tell your followers what lines not to cross.

Everyone I know who is successful has issues with their father, regardless of whether it was sports or business or entertainment.

People regardless of age are able to do a good job if they're inspired by the leader they work with.

It's always cool when you get immortalized on records. I am just happy that I have gotten to the level where rappers who can actually rap say my name in records, regardless if it's a diss or not.

What I really realized is that by being myself, regardless of what that means, you become a better role model.

I want to be a positive influence. I want to be someone who they want to call in and want here consistently, regardless of my role.

My grandmother had great influence on me. She was secretary of state in the 1970's, and that's when I was born. She showed me the importance of public service, and she was admired by people regardless of their political party.

I never hated my father. I would have named my child Usher regardless. I never hated myself because I carried his name, because I made it mean what I wanted it to mean.

I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written.

To me, the drive for monumentality is as inbred as the desire for food and sex, regardless of how we denigrate it. Monuments differ in different periods. Each age has its own.

I think regardless of where people are from, country music is a through line.

I would be delighted not to see another celebrity, regardless of their political beliefs, come to Washington to make yet another appeal for some cause about which they know little.

The mainstream media decided long ago that Hillary Clinton was going to be a fabulous global leader regardless of how she performed.

I follow in the footsteps of vets, regardless if they younger than me or older than me.