Quotes About Influence

Most journalists now believe that a person's privacy zone gets smaller and smaller as the person becomes more and more powerful.

You've got some very powerful countries: Poland, the United Kingdom, Sweden and others who have a genuine desire to see the euro zone straighten itself out. It's good for all of us, whether you're in the euro zone or not, to make sure that it doesn't lead to a fracturing.

I had a very mixed kind of childhood reading. I read the childhood classics like 'Robinson Crusoe,' 'Alice in Wonderland,' 'Chums Annual.' At the same time, I read an enormous number of American comics because Shanghai was an American zone of influence.

When it's a moral grey zone, the audience has to think about what they feel and what they think is right or wrong. You want to affect your audience and make them think.

One of the things that I've always not liked is the modern players have always concentrated on dancing in the end zone and BSing when serious things were going on in this country that needed to be changed. So my opinion is that when these young people stand up and risk their careers, that's a good sign for everything and all of us.

When I was a kid, I watched a lot of 'Twilight Zone.' My mother was obsessed with the show, as it was a staple of her childhood - and thus she made it one of ours, too.

I don't think people are keen to have Coldplay tell me about Cam Newton's red zone option.

Stephen King in general, as well as films of the apocalypse from the '70s, had a big influence on 'Zone One.'

I'd be lying if I said certain comments don't affect you. We're human beings. I had to zone out of it and had to take myself off social media as a player because I didn't want to see it.

The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men round to his opinion 20 years later.

Give me where to stand, and I will move the earth.

Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones just as the wind blows out a candle and fans a fire.

Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.

The best audience is intelligent, well-educated, and a little drunk.

It is not yours to finish the task, but neither are you free to take no part in it.

No way exists in the present to accurately determine the future effect of the least of our actions.

People who make some other person part of their job are dangerous.

'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hands: he could not make Antonio Stradivarius violins without Antonio.

Advertising - a judicious mixture of flattery and threats.

If I were starting life over again, I am inclined to think that I would go into the advertising business in preference to almost any other. The general raising of standards of modern civilization among all groups of people during the past half-century would have been impossible without that spreading of the knowledge of higher standards by means of advertising.

Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted.

We give advice, but we do not inspire conduct.

The office of the president is such a bastardized thing, half royalty and half democracy, that nobody knows whether to genuflect or spit.

People who leave Washington D.C. do so by way of the box - ballot or coffin.