Quotes About Influence

You touch the world even if you do not want it to touch you. -Leona Montgomery

The biggest problems were to do with... well, to get that successful when you're so young, it attracts hangers-on, parasites, people who want to feed off you.

Youth is so exciting. It'll take over. I don't want to be swept away. I want to be with the taking-over people, right to the end.

I used to love the Beatles and the Stones and I'd always want to hang out with them, even though they were about seven years older.

Become the change you want to see - those are words I live by.

You are not here to try to get the world to be just as you want it. You are here to create the world around you that you choose.

Colin Powell's committed to come into the house of the master. When Colin Powell dares to suggest something other than what the master wants to hear, he will be turned back out to pasture.

Every boy wants someone older than himself to whom he may go in moods of confidence and yearning. The neglect of this child's want by grown people . . . is a fertile source of suffering.

I've never read a political poem that's accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen, but rarely what the poet wants.

When I began writing, I didn't read any other children's poets... I didn't want to be influenced until I'd found my own voice. Now I read them all.

You have to be respectful of pop culture, because people interpret it in the way they want.

Find out where the people want to go, then hustle yourself around in front of them.

I was uncomfortable with smoking too much because a lot of young kids watch and I didn't want to make that cool.

When you realize it's your responsibility to be a leader and create the world that you want to see, you have to do it.

American music is something the rest of the world wants to listen to. Our job is to make sure they pay for it.

Like in [the 1950s] if you wanted to ruin someone´s career in Hollywood you claimed he was a Communist. Nowadays, you want to ruin someone´s career in Hollywood, you claim they are Republican.

People don't want to be sold! People want to buy!

I never wanted to be an actor. My dad was an actor, and he never brought joy home, so I didn't view it as something that I would want to do.

When I came out rapping on my record, a lot of people said, Oh, you just want to be like Puff.

If you can get a twelve year-old kid to go listen to Thelonius Monk, what more do you want? Do you want a big pile of cash, too? That's a home run for me.

When I get to the end of my life, I want to be able to look back and know that my being here made things better - Daphne

You can't make people listen to you. People only hear what they want to hear.

Other people's creativity inspires me. Seeing great art, or reading a fab book or watching an interesting documentary or an exciting film - these things make me want to let my own imagination fly.

Donald Trump can say whatever he wants and his supporters don't mind.