Quotes About Influence

Practically everyone I know now is from a middle- or upper-middle-class background, and I no longer have the huge chip on my shoulder that I carried around for so many years. I'm not sure it comes out much in the work, but coming from this kind of background is absolutely central to my identity, to my sense of who I am.

Glenn was the one who invited me to join the Eagles in 1974, and it turned out to be a gift of a lifetime to have spent so many years working side by side with him. He was funny, strong, and generous. At times, it felt like we were brothers, and at other times, like brothers, we disagreed.

Harvard was very important to me and has been very important to so many people for so many years.

That's why John Cena was No. 1 for so many years. Because every time John got in the ring with somebody, he made them better than they were.

Everybody tells me they don't know how I have so much energy, and I think people feed off that, which is great.

I think high school's very difficult. You're figuring out your own power and your effect on other people. You look back and see how you spent so much energy on figuring out things with your parents or your peers.

People used to always ask, and I would say I wanted to be an actress. When they would ask why, I would say because my mother has so much fun.

My first love of jazz came from joining the Chilliwack Middle School band - it was like an 18-piece jazz band, and I wanted to join just because the older kids looked like they were having so much fun.

I was lucky because I used to live right next to a video-rental store. I used to spend so much time watching films. So I've seen a lot. I used to watch 'Dynasty' and 'Dallas' and have seen every kind of film. I've been influenced by everything I've seen.

I definitely believe that the so-called American decline is greatly exaggerated.

The relentless pressures of the so-called marketplace have distorted all our culture industries.

When I was 11 I became a massive fan of The Monkees. We had a so-called 'band' of kids on my street and we'd go along to people's houses and mime to Monkees records.

There is an expression now that is commonly used about these so-called internal conflicts which are not really internal, because they have connections to the outside world.

When I arrived in the Senate, the moderate so-called Rockefeller Republicans held the balance of power.

I've made mistakes. Like, bringing people to your level who don't deserve to be there. They're trying to bite off your so-called fame, make a name off of you. I think I did a lot of that - allowed people to be relevant in my life who really aren't relevant to me at all.

the experience of psychedelics is powerfully influenced by one's expectation; no other class of drugs are more suggestible in their effects.

even the weather itself is in some sense an artifact now, its temperatures and storms the reflection of our actions.

If you hadn't done what you did," he told Weil, "I would never have become Ram Dass.

Part of the power of the ego flows from its command of one's rational faculties.)

Be the guy people want to do things for.

The people you spend time with make a significant impact on your state of mind and how you feel about yourself. Let this be the imperative of your business: Choose your clients as carefully as you choose your friends.

you are the company you keep.

It's not enough that you move through the world - you must change it to suit your expectations.

Can you really show me a single person, including yourself, including me, who, since the Vanishing, can't be said to belong to a cult? Even if it's a cult of one?