Quotes About Influence

Every body has mind power, I have learned to direct it toward my body and thus influence the cold and heating-system of my metabolism.

I have nothing against respecting people who lived before, but we have no responsibility toward them.

It's only when we stop looking exclusively to the podium for our heroes and start looking all around us that we'll make the greatest progress toward a better tomorrow.

Effectiveness comes from those qualitative things that give you the ability to network, communicate, and lead people toward an outcome they can't see.

Leadership is simply the ability of an individual to coalesce the efforts of other individuals toward achieving common goals. It boils down to looking after your people and ensuring that, from top to bottom, everyone feels part of the team.

You have to lead people gently toward what they already know is right.

When I was a kid, I loved figure skating. But in Mexico, they kind of push you toward hockey.

And I taught acting for years, and without knowing it that was the real thing that started bending me toward directing.

It was only later that I found out there was good '70s rock like the Raspberries and the Flaming Groovies. I always gravitated toward the '60s music more, though, like the Kinks, the Who and the Beatles, of course.

Here we were, corrupting all those Russians toward communism.

The Democrats have essentially decided to move more toward central power, control of just about every aspect of our culture and economy.

My mom kind of led me toward acting. She wanted to be an actress when she was younger. That made me interested in it when I was a kid, because she and I are very close.

Hollywood is geared toward teenage idiocy.

I suppose for me as an artist it wasn't always just about expressing my work; I really wanted, more than anything else, to contribute in some way to the culture that I was living in. It just seemed like a challenge to move it a little bit towards the way I thought it might be interesting to go.

I gravitate towards strong messages and things that make an impact.

I'd love to do something with Kelly Clarkson because she's been a monumental influence on me. I love how she handles her celebrity. She's not in the tabloids a lot but everyone knows and respects her because she's got an amazing voice. That's something I aim towards.

Many of our ideas of what love is comes from stories... these are extremely powerful shapers of our attitudes towards love, and I think that, in some ways, often we've got the wrong story.

My parents never pushed me towards music. I feel like, growing up in a musical household and always being surrounded by it, I was always kind of a performer child. I remember my parents would have guests over, and they would bring their kids, and I would make sure that we were ready to put a show on.

I wanted to be a pilot, but I was always drawing bodies. When I realised I wanted to pursue something creative, my parents pushed me towards architecture.

My marks were always bad, and I was a bad influence on other children, so they would explain to my mother that they could retain me only by being partial towards me, and so I should offer to leave the school myself. I would barely get 40-50% and was also extremely naughty.

I can take the spotlight that shines on me and shift it towards those issues that are infinitely more important than my own issues.

Since an early age I was taught to be very politically aware and knew from childhood that the process was something I wanted to contribute towards if I could.

'Baazigar' was the movie which initiated my drift towards acting.

My natural bend is to get attracted towards things that have been an influence in my life.