Quotes About Influence

Now the truth is, a president really can't control the economy, although his policies do have some effect on it.

The truth is, the 'Fortune' 500 prefer lobbying to campaigning.

The truth is that the writers who most influenced me weren't people categorized as crime writers. I'd say I learned more from John O'Hara, who isn't much read today but whose short stories I really admired, and Hemingway, who I think has lasted pretty good.

The truth is that the actresses who I look up to are either my age or a few years older or a lot older.

The absolute truth is that there is no power in celebrity.

Whatever may be the merits of a religious system, its effects upon the mass of mankind must depend in an important degree upon its teachers. All instruction and all truth, except simple mathematical truth, is modified by the medium through which it is conveyed.

Every time I say something that's extremely truthful out loud, it literally breaks the Internet.

Today we live in a world now where it is easy to confuse truth and popularity. And you can use money to amplify whatever you believe and get people to believe what is popular is now truthful. And what is not popular may not be truthful.

To be truthful, Jay-Z wouldn't have a quarter of the records sold today if it wasn't for the white people buying his records.

Of course, my father was a soccer player. He used to play very good. Then, when I was young, eight or nine years old, ten years old, I just want to be like my father.

What kind of influence do you want to have? What kind of effect do you want to have on other people? Never mistake the power of influence.

If we make people believe that before the age of 16 they got sick drinking vodka, they don't want to drink as much vodka.

Video games are like a religion; you want to get people tattooing your little logo on their body so they'll get somebody else interested in it too.

Avoid working directly under somebody you don't admire and don't want to be like.

Surround yourself with people who do what you want to do, and eventually you'll wake up to find yourself doing the same.

I tell people, 'If you want to send a message to the White House, call my house.

I'm in a perfect position. I don't want to be more famous and I can't lose sponsors, so I can say anything I want.

I do think certain kinds of music can make you violent. Like, when I listen to Nickelback, it makes me want to kill Nickelback.

I think about legacy a lot, hopefully at the end of the day they say I was a good bluesman. That's all I want.

Everything is being transformed under the magic influence of science and technology. And every day, if we want to live with open eyes, we have a problem to study, to resolve.

I always thought, if I can affect one kid and help him or her fulfil their dreams, that would be kinda neat, so I want to ensure that I'm remembered in a good way.

The excitement right now is coming from the Liberty movement. And the Republicans want a piece of it.

The secret to making your holiday inspiring is actually quite simple. Be inspiring yourself. As with any change, you must be the change you want to see in others.

I figure a lot of folks are probably looking to find out if Moses Malone is into that stuff, but the closest I come to drugs is drinking a Coca-Cola. I don't want that cocaine; it's not for me.