Quotes About Influence

I think that fear is a mechanism a tool for control.

They've got a great tool in the Internet. If you've really got a good movement, you can see who likes you.

Marketing is a very good thing, but it shouldn't control everything. It should be the tool, not that which dictates.

I've always liked the heavier stuff. I've always loved Tool and System of a Down, Korn and Nine Inch Nails.

Fashion can be a really powerful tool, but it's also a place where you can be totally humiliated and have your power taken from you.

An exit is only a success if you set an exit as your primary goal. My primary goal was to build a globally influential tool, to build something from the ground up that could literally change how we communicated in business and individually.

If humans were totally unstructured creatures, they would be... a tool which can properly be shaped by outside forces.

Does Facebook behave like a tool in my hand, or a firehose designed to spew at me in accordance with other peoples' agendas? Concretely: can I write my own client to present a filtered view of the Facebook stream, or have other people do that for me?

We ultimately use good art as a tool for people to contextualize themselves, and the folks in all the places we play experience it how they will. All we're doing is saying what we think. I never really wanted to be anyone's hero.

Social media is simply a tool that facilitates actions.

Donald Trump has his Twitter account, but so do I, and so do millions and millions of Americans. So the way that we can organize around that is different than what we had in the past, and we can use that tool for good, not just for evil.

Film is a tool of change.

When we can export American energy to markets around the world, the president will also be able to use it as an important tool to increase our global leadership and influence, advancing our global agenda and helping to keep our citizens safe.

The most effective tool I have to work with artists I admire is to point to other artists that I admire and show that I've worked with them many, many times. It's not because I have option deals; it's because they want to keep working with us.

Social media is a powerful tool to connect constituents with the policy making process.

I've used the Internet since I was in high school - it was my tool for self-promotion.

Silence can be a very powerful tool. Sometimes it's more powerful to leave you with nothing.

I know success; I've done it, but success is not what everyone thinks it is. It's only a tool and a platform for a greater message. That's where my nickname 'The Messenger' comes from. The UFC and a world title are a platform for something greater. For a bigger purpose.

I use Twitter as a writing tool a lot.

Basketball to me is more than a passion or a paycheck - it is the tool I use to try to have an impact in the world.

You don't have to be a professional athlete to be heard - the most powerful tool you have is your voice.

You know the voice of the people is a very, very powerful tool.

Being able to make people laugh is a powerful tool.

Knowing how other people wrote music is a great tool, which can be applied into your own musical mindset.