Quotes About Influence

Media is extraordinarily important and is an extraordinarily powerful tool. There's a reason that the first things that a rebellion or revolt will take is the media. The story you transmit is the story that becomes a given, or the narrative of a country and people.

I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body: they transmit movement to it.

A manager can have a great idea but if the players don't understand it, or don't follow you, your idea doesn't have much use. On the other side, you can have a bad idea, but if the players are convinced it, and you transmit it well, it can work.

Transnational, gigantic industrial companies no longer operate within political systems, but rather above them.

I find that when you open the door toward openness and transparency, a lot of people will follow you through.

Good law includes a commitment to transparency and an insistence that no person or entity with a conflict of interest should have influence on public policy decisions.

We have all the power. Us consumers have all the power, and if we can show that, 'Hey, I want transparency,' Hey, I want something that's going to be nutritious and great,' then suddenly, kale will be all over the marketplace, and turmeric will be all over the marketplace.

I've been interested in writing and storytelling since I learned to read, but it wasn't until I read Dylan Thomas, when I was 14, that I became interested in language itself, and saw it as more than a transparent medium for a story.

I think social media, it in a way forces companies to be more authentic or more transparent because it gives a voice to the consumer and a reach to the consumer that they didn't have before.

I think the world is much more transparent now, and I think that's probably a good thing. On the other hand, I think it makes it really tough for people who are natural born leaders who could be guiding us and leading our countries.

I've learned I can't really affect or control what journalists write, so I just try my best to be transparent and answer the questions that are asked of me.

It really matters whether people are working on generating clean energy or improving transportation or making the Internet work better and all those things. And small groups of people can have a really huge impact.

We have seen a central government taking more and more control over public education, over communications, over transportation, over every detail of our daily lives.

I would be lying if I didn't admit sadness that our wonderful airline is merging with another. Because I'm not American, the U.S. Department of Transportation stipulated I take some of my shares in Virgin America as non-voting shares, reducing my influence over any takeover. So there was sadly nothing I could do to stop it.

I have been a transportation leader and advocate my entire public career.

When I met Ram Charan, he told me not to worry about how much my films make. After 'Magadheera,' people began expecting big things from him. So he did films to keep up to that expectation. He advised me to not fall into that trap.

There's gonna be a lot of great songs, but there ain't going to be another 'Trap Queen.'

I was listening to Young Jeezy and Shawty Red, and to me, the trap music they had was something special.

There's three type of men you got to avoid at any cost—the police, the army recruiters, the hustlers. They all want your life and that's all you got.

The storyteller is clever and masterful and has already decided exactly what he wants you to think and believe.

A bad bitch was so slick that she made him think he was calling the shots while she planted the seeds and was the owner of all his thoughts.

The storyteller has the power to make people feel good or bad about themselves. The storyteller has the

power to make people feel strong or weak, ugly or beautiful, confident or defeated.

Whoever has put you into this frame of mind has more control over you right now, than you have over yourself. If he is your opponent and you will face him today, you will be defeated.