Quotes About Influence

I'd like to do a pop album with an R and B influence. I definitely want to have those big ballads with the uptempo hits as well.

The fear tactic is a tactic that's used by people who want to maintain control, and it's very effective.

As a leader you should always start with where people are before you try to take them to where you want them to go.

People who want to manipulate you will fear your joy, because it's not easily controlled.

Anyone who wants to be a leader must be the servant, not the boss, of those he wants to serve.

A child identifies his parents with God, whether or not the adults want that role. Most children 'see' God the way they perceive their earthly fathers.

Time Warner has called and they want us all back on the couch, just consuming - not producing, not sharing - and we should say, 'No.'

To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who doesn't know where he is going.

If you go into a room of 100-plus people, and you want to be the prince of darkness, you can be it. But I don't operate in the dark, I operate in the light.

Live in such a way that people who know you but don't know Christ will want to know Christ because of you.

Many artists in Mexico fight to be the Latina Madonna. I don't want that! Never! Maybe she's the American Gloria Trevi!

Reason may be the lever, but sentiment gives you the fulcrum and the place to stand on if you want to move the world.

Pessimists are second rate people. They do not believe in life. ... All they want to do is drag you down and appease their own feelings of mediocrity and fear.

I've arranged with my executor to be buried in Chicago. Because when I die, I want to still remain active politically.

Like Zidane I want to inspire the kids

It's important to realize that whenever you give power to politicians or bureaucrats, it will be used for what they want, not for what you want.

What you want to ignite in others must first burn inside yourself.

I feel like if I show people how good I'm doing with myself, then it'll bring people to want me to manage them as well.

Clothes are about manipulations: how I feel, how I want to feel and how I want others to feel about me.

By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn't want your daughter to associate with.

If you're a voice for a community, then you're a voice for something more than yourself. I want to have an impact, because I don't want anybody to have to go through what I went through.

Ads are baked into content like chocolate chips into a cookie. Except, it's actually more like raisins into a cookie - because nobody f-?-?-ing wants them there.

Many people tell me what I ought to do and just how I ought to do it, but Few have made me want to do something.

I am society's child. This is how they made me and now I'm sayin' what's on my mind and they don't want that. This is what you made me, America.