Quotes About Influence

Where you don't have people who have strong intellectual capacity, you get demagoguery.

Having the young people engaged, involved, and being the leaders themselves is a great way to capture them intellectually and emotionally.

My father made me who I am; he was incredibly intellectually generous.

The United States is and will continue to be the most important country in the world, economically, militarily, intellectually. There's nothing that four years of Trump can do to stop that. What it is no longer, during the Trump years, is the leading source for better governmental arrangements between countries.

Intellectuals would be much more accepted now than in the '40s.

The war industry people are very together; they know exactly what they want; they don't even have to talk to each other. The peace industry people are just intellectuals who are very critical of each other... Unless the peace industry is powerful, we're always going to have war. It is as simple as that.

The little Napoleons in UMNO try to keep out people who are more intelligent than themselves.

We've grown up on the Beach Boys and the Beatles and Blur and Bowie and the Clash. Also E.L.O. and Hall and Oates. Those are all artists who write songs that are accessible but still left of center. It's intelligent pop. There's still something different and complex about it.

I had intelligent, high-minded, liberal parents who wanted to make sure my values were just like theirs.

I started out with V Shantaram. But my favourite director has been Gulzar, with whom I did intelligent cinema in movies like 'Khushboo,' 'Kinara' and 'Parichay.'

She sacrificed a lot for us. She was a wonderful role model for us. She's probably the most intelligent person I know. And what's really cool for me is I have a lot of friends who will tell me, 'I was in your Mom's math class. I loved having her as a teacher.' That's really special for me.

Even though I may not intend it when I set out to write the book, these places just emerge as major players in what I'm doing, almost as if they are insisting on it.

One thing you can't intend is how you will be read. I hear it said a lot that my books are about the 'search for identity', and this is said admiringly, as if I meant to encourage such a search.

Many people have an intense feeling about what they're best at. Too often, they're driven away from it by other people.

I put a lot of pressure on myself and I think I am quite... well, intense about driving other people.

I was raised in an intensely religious household and I think the influence shows through my music.

Television is intensely personal.

I think if you show a player an avenue to make a difference, he's going to bring that same intensity he brings on the field in his community.

Hip-hop has globalized a conception of blackness that has had a political impact, whether or not it had a political intent.

The way I look at it is that once you create a piece of art, and it's out in the world, there's nothing you can do about it. People can use it the way they want to. There's nothing you can do about it. All you can hope for is that people that are using it are using it with the best intent.

The heads of the K.G.B. were deeply anti-Semitic and saw in Israel and world Jewry 'a danger which is only second to the main enemy, the United States.' The K.G.B. was intent on destabilizing Israel, totally disproportionate to the country's strength or influence.

I may not go down in history as the best female golfer to ever play, however my intent is to do whatever I can to grow the game.

Everything that I do is with a purpose and intent of wanting to make a difference.

My intention was to create something that people loved to look at and they could find inspiration from, and that was it.