Quotes About Influence

I have to just worry about my own opinion and the opinions of the people I'm working with and people who are close to me.

Part of leaving your legacy is not worrying what everyone is saying about it.

There's no point in worrying about things you can't influence.

It makes no sense to worry about things you have no control over because there's nothing you can do about them, and why worry about things you do control? The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized.

Control what you can control. Don't lose sleep worrying about things that you don't have control over because, at the end of the day, you still won't have any control over them.

China is taking over Brazil, and that is worrying. They are investing in mining, agriculture, energy, ports, and airports.

We have got to stop worrying about being loved and start worrying about being respected. And that's exactly how I'll lead our country.

Stop worrying about the 'dumbing down' of our language by bloggers, tweeters, cableheads and MSM thumbsuckers engaged in a 'race to the bottom' of the page by little minds confined to little words.

As a leader, you need to care deeply, deeply about your people while not worrying or really even caring about what they think about you. Managing by trying to be liked is the path to ruin.

No Facebook status is as worrying as a vote and no tweet is as noticeable as an angry cry from a crowd outside a government building.

Beware, all too often we say what we hear others say. We think what we are told that we think. We see what we are permitted to see. Worse, we see what we are told that we see.

Cultures, for better or worse, are very stable.

To drive an F1 car you have to be a little mad. On the morning of a race there's a mix of excitement and fear. If it's a wet track, then it's worse as you're not in control most of the time, which is the thing all drivers fear the most.

One thing worse than an America that is too strong, the world will learn, is an America that is too weak.

I hesitated, too, because for better or worse, I have been one of the principal architects of New Labour and I have worked closely with Tony Blair and the team for nearly 20 years.

Empty threats are often worse than saying nothing at all. It's like leading from behind. Eventually, no one thinks you're leading at all. And after a while, no one is even listening.

There's nothing worse than going out without contributing.

No poetry that I'm aware of, however bad or glorious, has ever left somebody a worse person than they were before they read it.

You know the bark is worse than the bite in D.C.

The more people involved in making a movie, the worse it is, generally.

We as Americans assume that big companies are bad, and big power companies are even worse.

Modelling is no better or worse than many other professions, but it is more obvious, more accessible.

I've had shows as a painter, as a photographer, I've done shows as a sculptor. I've done a lot of different things and it all comes from experiences that you have in your life, in your creative environment. They all help - I don't even know if they help; maybe they make it worse but they all influence each other, for sure.

No faction is better or worse than any other. All come from the same mould; they are all products of capitalist influence in the working class movement. And they are a poison that destroys our Party and the working class movement in Korea.