Quotes About Influence

The Internet has transformed the landscape of children's social lives, moving cliques from lunchrooms and lockers to live chats and online bulletin boards and intensifying their reach and power.

When I speak, I want to ensure that there is at least one person in the audience who leaves the room transformed.

Cate Blanchett is somebody who's transformed herself in so many different ways and worked with so many amazing actors and directors. If I was gonna model my career after somebody's, it would definitely be hers.

A girl named Rachel transformed my childhood. Life was safe, suburban and comfortable, but ours was a home without books. I met her aged 11, and she introduced me to the joys of poetry and literature. It opened my mind to ideas I could never have dreamed of.

Advertising is the genie which is transforming America into a place of comfort, luxury and ease for millions.

And if I can take part in it by transforming my own consciousness, then someone else's, I'm happy to do it.

Thailand was the transforming experience in my life. Thailand is where I grew up.

I thank my mother, Terezinha, for the power of her transforming love.

Gay TV has been immensely important in transforming American culture in a more gay-positive direction.

When you tell a story that you know is having an effect on the audience, that, for me, is the transforming thing.

My mentor in the transition from the old Gabriel Heatter and John Cameron Swayze way of doing things was David Brinkley. He brought an entirely different style to what we were doing.

I'd say a big transition as a kid was when I started to listen to Good Charlotte. They were like a rap-to-rock/punk group.

As captain I enjoy the responsibility. Even when I didn't have the armband I was doing a lot outwith the club so it has been an easy transition.

From Portland's ban on large, fossil fuel terminals to Oregon's Clean Fuels Standard and the Clean Electricity and Coal Transition Act, our local actions send ripples through the energy landscape nationwide.

Cinema, I always felt, is a very powerful mass medium to translate ideas in an engaging way.

I believed in what I was. I didn't believe that would translate into any of the five championships. But I knew that I could affect the game.

Governments follow their people. A great deal has to do with the vision of the leadership of governments. They have a vision, and they translate that to their people and to their counterparts in other countries. You can fulfill and achieve a great deal if you get along well as individuals, as people, as persons.

There's certain guys who dictate or change the way they play based off who they're playing, and that still may translate to success for them, but the way that I play is, like I say, I'm in the driver's seat.

History is how we have learnt to think about ourselves. It's not as though the Greeks and Romans are static entities out there to be discovered and translated. We make them speak, we talk to them, and they inform what we say.

When I was younger, I was living in that green room and accompanying them to all the different theaters that they worked at. So, that has always remained a nostalgic place for me and also one of great admiration. I was just so grateful that that passion they have for theater translated to me, because I always loved seeing it.

The first problem of the media is posed by what does not get translated, or even published in the dominant political languages.

Whatever is powerful to you can be translated into something which will matter to somebody that you will never know.

The translation of social media buzz does not really happen. Films do well through word of mouth.

Since it is not granted to us to live long, let us transmit to posterity some memorial that we have at least lived.