Quotes About Influence

When I was a child, next to my own mother, no woman that ever lived took as much interest in me, gave me as much motherly advice or seemed to love me more than did Sister Snow. I loved her with all my heart, and loved her hymn, 'O My Father.'

Because my home life was nuts, I didn't look to my parents for help. I looked to my teachers. They made me who I am. They took on a parental role. They're like celebrities or heroes to me.

It took President Obama to make America lead like America again.

Subconsciously, Islam took over me, so it was like eighty or ninety percent of the fabric of the person I was.

I took up Tamil films because I'm a big fan of Mani Ratnam. I thought maybe he'll notice me if I act in a Tamil film.

Social media is an amazing tool, but it's really the face-to-face interaction that makes a long-term impact.

Everyone has a voice. I mean, that's the good side to the Internet Age and social media. Obviously, there's negatives to it, but I think that the fact that everyone has a voice now is a tool that we can use for good.

My mum was massively important to everything I've done, and now her memory is a motivational tool for me.

I use my platform as a tool and a way to speak about greater change.

I think that reality TV is so bad. It is a tool by the media to not make people think.

I think if you can affect somebody's life with one song, that's such a powerful tool to reach millions of people on so many different levels.

It's hard to think of any tool, any instrument, any object in history with which so many developed so close a relationship so quickly as we have with our phones.

I think social media is a great tool if you use it the right way.

Fame was initially this kind of blunt tool that was thrust into my hands very young.

Back in those days intimidation was the greatest tool the drill instructor had. Without that tool, he would not have had control.

The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.

Public misbehavior by the famous is a powerful teaching tool.

We've never really been susceptible to pressure from anyone from the outside. We've been really good at negating any outside influences. We're really hard on ourselves. The filter that we put upon things qualifying to end up on a Tool record is pretty extreme, so we figure we've got that part of it under control.

Power is a tool, influence is a skill; one is a fist, the other a fingertip.

Film can be a tool for change; it can start a debate.

TV is such a great medium in what it can do in terms of enlightening an audience. We can really inspire and teach people about other people. That's a powerful tool, and that's something that the arts has always been capable of doing.

Al Jazeera is not a tool of revolution. We do not create revolutions. However, when something of that magnitude happens, we are at the center of the coverage.

My dad taught me that language was a powerful tool.

Art should not be a tool of politics, but sometimes art can help make the political climate more open and help society become more free.