Quotes About Influence

[Eva Braun] always said, "you're the Führer, you can do whatever you want to do."

You owe it to yourself to be the best person possible. Because if you are, others will want to be with you, want to provide you with the things you want in exchange for what you're giving to them.

Tyson [Chandler] encouraged me and was like, if that's what you want to wear, wear that.

When I want you to beg, I'll tell you.

If I can't run my neighborhood you won't want me in your neighborhood.

Decide exactly what you want to achieve. Do you want to help people, or do you want to be powerful?

I think if I weren't married to [Barack Obama], I'd want him to be in there.

You can't make the people do what you want them to do. You've got to get everybody to see what you seein' or you gonna be a damn fool.

You know, you can't make the people do what you want them to do.

My mother is a strong, wonderful woman. I could never be anything she didn't want me to be.

Influence is getting others to do what you want them to do because they want to do it - a take on Eisenhower's famous leadership statement

I think people have some control over what they want; there's a relationship - maybe not automatic - between what you want and get.

Who gets to decide what you want?

You want me to describe Elvis, wow!

It will be easier for you to bring him around to where you want him more by gentleness and patience than by being too uncompromising.

But the weakness comes from these Westernised co-opted Muslim leaders who just want to look good in the eyes of the West and Western media.

You look up to your parents and you want them to accept you, and you don't want them to look at you in a negative light. So you do things to make them proud and accept you.

I don't watch a lot of other people's parodies because I don't want to be unduly influenced.

Nothing in the outer world makes you feel any way. You decide what you want to feel, and then use outer people and events as permission slips to execute your feeling agenda.

What made me want to play guitar was that painting of Wings in concert in the gatefold of Wings Over America. It looked so exciting... I wanted to be part of it.

I remember a time when I would hear a band and then want to hear everything that sounded like it; I wanted it to feel like I was tapping into a thing, even if it wasn't.

Surely every band wants to be a pivotal point in history.

If somebody has a monopoly position, and wants to keep that monopoly position, it means that you are effectively shutting out competition from other sources.

I definitely have role models. But it's hard to say, "Okay, I want to be Angelina Jolie," or "I want to be Charlize Theron.