Quotes About Influence

I've always been about less government.

Liberty clutched him tightly. 'You played a part in my destiny. And maybe I played a part in yours.' That was how things worked, she was beginning to realize. Destiny wasn't something you accomplished by yourself.

I think it's sad that movies and television have caused the theatre to fade as a popular art form. I hope to get young people into the theatre and expose them to Shakespeare.

The eventual place the American army should take on the western front was to a large extent influenced by the vital question of communication and supply.

We are all shaped by what we do.

Lightning does the work; thunder takes the credit.

A politician don't steal elections, he pays for 'em.

On a gentle horse, every man is a rider.

Fear the man who's feared of you.

The Runaway Five's obvious influence is The Blues Brothers. During localization, their black and white suits were made more colorful to avoid legal action from Universal Pictures or the film's producers. When I told my wife Aviva about this, she admitted she had never seen The Blues Brothers film. Having grown up on a steady diet of Saturday Night Live-spawned movies, I told her that her innocence here was blasphemous. That night, we marveled together at James Brown's hair.

The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.

In the past a leader was a boss. Today's leaders must be partners with their people... they no longer can lead solely based on positional power.

Back in the time of the Tinkers, I'd taken on a young impressionable kid, one of those wannabe American young Irish who saw the world through a cinema lens.

But while Kravitz has a need to perform, with Sam you saw nothing. Things just got done. And when he wasn't doing, he was thinking—he was doing things inside his head. In the rinks and parks of Snowdon, he learned that if you know everything about everything, people listen. And if you're willing to do everything, people let you.

I have quite a few different Bibles. Having rejected my parents' religion, I still think the King James Bible is the most important work of literature in English. None of us can help being influenced by it.

A baby was like a revolution, Grigori thought: you could start one, but you could not control how it would turn out.

President Wilson says a leader must treat public opinion the way a sailor deals with the wind, using it to blow the ship in one direction or another, but never trying to go directly against it.

If the word of God dwells within us, then God speaks to others, however inarticulately, through the language of our life.

To put it bluntly, the churchgoer has been influenced by the secular world that opposes the reality of the biblical Flood. Many in the Church succumb to this secular peer pressure and also deny the global Flood.

I actually never knew Peter Green but I do respect his early work very much.

I feel about Flannery O'Connor the same way that terrible people feel about Ayn Rand.

If you don't watch it people will force you one way or the other, into doing what they think you should do, or into just being mule-stubborn and doing the opposite out of spite.

ideas are exactly as interested in the brains they're in as genes are in the bodies they're in: just enough to get themselves copied...Like computer viruses.

As the physicist John Wheeler said, "If you don't kick things around with people, you are out of it. Nobody, I always say, can be anybody without somebody being around.