Quotes About Influence

Leadership means setting a moral tone.

'Spinal Tap' influenced me, I think, specifically in making me really pay attention to tone.

My father really set the tone for us to be a more moral nation, to take a moral high ground in everything that we do.

As the leader of the most powerful nation in the world, our president is more than a list of policies. They set the tone of our national character.

In my experience, it is the leader - the CEO - who plays the crucial role in creating and 'owning' an organization's culture, setting the tone, and executing on that consistently.

I've always been totally enamored by hip-hop. I wouldn't say I liked it exclusively growing up. It was, like, that and alt-rock. But I always preferred it. It set a tone for everything I wanted to do in life.

Spike Lee is a master of tone, so basically, if he wants to do something, he should do it, and Imma listen.

At the end of the day, you, as the player, create the tone coming out of the amp. The gear is part of it but by no means all of it.

My mom's amazing 'mom skills' have set the tone for my sister Muffy to be an amazing mother herself.

You have more of an opportunity than people think to impact a game through the tone that you can set. You can't control everything, setting that tone is important.

I got to a really dark place when it came to wanting to be tanned, really disliking my natural skin tone. I was listening to the wrong people and all sorts of people were passing judgement on my appearance.

From 'The Money Store,' 'I've Seen Footage' seems to run the beats from Tone Loc's 'Wild Thing' and Salt-n-Pepa's 'Push It' through a rusty meat grinder.

At the highest level of the government, we have to set the tone and preach by example.

It's important that I stay positive in my messages during matches because the rest of the team is following the tone and tension in my voice. Nothing in my voice should let them down.

I think I'm at my best when I'm on the ball, I'm feeling the game, I feel free, and I'm setting the tone for the game.

I really like films that don't let the score influence the tone too much.

No matter what I'm writing, I almost always start with the music. Definitely, the melody seems to set the tone for whatever emotions come to follow, and whatever's going to be written down. It always starts with the music, for me.

I want to be on 'Love Island' because I want to show how toned I've gotten and I also want to increase my Instagram following and get a clothing deal with Uniqlo.

It's so funny to think about it now, but I kind of toned everything down about myself for 'Idol.' When it came down to song choices, or hair choices, or stuff like that, producers had the final say. I never got to sing, for instance, a female artist's song.

Sonnymoon and Quadrants are a couple of bands that really inspire me in terms of the melodics of things and certain tones and just what feels good. It takes me back to the type of music that I grew up on in my household. We played a lot of gangsta rap, but we also played a lot of oldies, and I think that mix is part of what inspires my sound.

My mother was my first and most important influence. When I was a little girl, she would take me shopping for pigments that flattered dark skin tones, mixing and playing until she'd created her ideal shade.

Basically, coming up, listening to Cash Money and Master P, and my mother would listen to Sade and Erykah Badu, things like that. I didn't like that music back then, but now, I guess, to look for soothing music or tones, you know, I would look to that, and I would love to do something with Sade or Erykah Badu.

Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip.

Age makes all things greater after their death; a name comes to the tongue easier from the grave.