Quotes About Influence

I was born in London. In a lot of ways I'm English, but I have this Iranianness, this culture instilled by my parents, by my family.

It's an important lesson Dad instilled in me, the idea that we have the freedom to serve, and that the choice to serve can define the type of life you live.

If I hear a song that I like, my first instinct is to find out about who made it.

I like to think I'll be quite instinctive as a leader.

After I finished my degree in Mass Communication in Manipal, I enrolled for a cinematography course in Pune Film Institute. That is when Nandini Reddy, the director of 'Ala Modalaindi,' convinced me to act.

United is no longer just a football club; it is an institution. I feel the demands are beyond one human being.

I don't know any institution in this country that... carries more influence than the church.

In many ways, the crumbling of the institution of marriage is the real 'war on women.' Marriage is the civilizing influence for men and for families.

Only individuals can desire and act. The existence of an institution such as government becomes meaningful only through influencing the actions of those individuals who are and those who are not considered as members.

As the society has gotten larger and more complex, individuals have lost their ability to influence any of the institutions that affect their lives.

Well, I've ruffled a few feathers at all the institutions I've led. But I think that's part of leadership.

Academic institutions in Britain have been infiltrated for years by dangerous theocratic fantasists. I should know: I was one of them.

Political art - not always a contradiction in terms - can destroy institutions, or eat away at them.

If you're looking at the people who head the institutions, there are very few African Americans or people of colour. I'm talking about the major theatres that position themselves as serving all audiences. What you find is, by and large, people who are shaping what we see, and the people who are the tastemakers are white.

You can send a lot of instruction through laughter.

Mr. Modi has to take instructions from Nagpur, and whatever Nagpur says, he will do.

I love telling stories, whether I'm the human instrument that helps tell that story, or I'm the man behind the curtain.

I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.

For governments at war, the media is an instrument of war or an element in war that is to be controlled.

Everybody is someone else's instrument.

My parents were very musical in the sense that they were, you know, music lovers and avid buyers of records, but none of them actually play an instrument.

Every teacher that I've ever had, that I still remember their name, made me laugh. I feel like comedy is the best instrument to teach.

As soon as I choose the timbre of an instrument, that dominates how I compose.

Getting into the banjo and discovering that it was an African-American instrument, it totally turned on its head my idea of American music - and then, through that, American history.