Quotes About Influence

Authority, as you usually think of it, is merely the excuse the strong use to make others conform to what they want.

Each father wants their sons to be just like them, really.

Leadership is getting people to do things that they don't want to do.

Politics is like roller skating. You go partly where you want to go, and partly where the damn things take you.

Because Lincoln is so closely identified with what it is to be American, everyone wants to claim him, to rewrite his story to satisfy their own particular needs.

Nowadays, the media have to be there to keep you from asking too many questions, from getting together with other people who might want to do the Jeffersonian thing and call out the government.

We know that russians are deeply engaged in supporting Assad because they want to have a place in the Middle East. They have a naval base, they have an air base in Syria.

I've kind of shut myself off to a lot of new music because I don't want to be influenced by it.

I was put into this business by my parents as soon as I could walk. I was groomed by them for this business. I didn't wake up at the early ages of 5 or 6 and say I want to be a star.

Love does not exist, it's like religion, the state wants you to believe in that kind of crap so they can control you, and f**k your head up.

No one wants a domain with their name on it owned by somebody else.

The problem is that too often the only people who can act don't want change. Power doesn't so much corrupt as it breeds conservatism.

I'm realistic. Getting to everybody is not the goal here. The people you can affect in any way - that's who you want to get to.

People have to decide do we want our country for ourselves with the people in charge or are we going to elect the the KGB and the House Republicans to decide this election [2016].

At Texas A&M you learn first to follow, then to develop and practice your leadership skills, and finally you become someone others want to follow.

Wall Street gives money to both [Democrats and Republicans] because they want to be on the good side of whoever becomes president .

I love music, that it changes so much, but I also want to keep a bit of the country roots to make it country. I don't want to go too far away from it, or I would do pop music.

I don't find movies interesting. I just want to do the movies that made me interested in getting into movies, and they're few and far between.

When you're a kid and you see gangsters living the life, you kind of want to be like that.

Yogi Berra put it best, "If people don't want to come, we can't stop them."

Overall, I think any opportunity to expose people to art on a mass level - to have some kid in Oklahoma say to his mother, "I want to be an artist" - is a good thing.

I wonder what it's like to have that much power over a boy. I don't think I'd want it - it's a lot of responsibility to hold a person's heart in your hands.

Any coach certainly wants to have the opportunity to have some input over the personnel that he's coaching.

Simply having rules does not change the things that people want to do. You have to change incentive.