Quotes About Influence

The world does not speak. Only we do. The world can, once we have programmed ourselves with a language, cause us to hold beliefs. But it cannot propose a language for us to speak. Only other human beings can do that.

My buildings will be my legacy... they will speak for me long after I'm gone.

If you're quiet, and you don't speak out, you're never going to get anything accomplished.

Artists have a responsibility to speak and to act when governments fail, and if we don't do that, we really deserve the world we get.

When you speak in another accent, it affects you. You can't help but be changed by it.

I'm a guy that leads from example, but sometimes I need to speak up.

Dreiser... I love... and almost wouldn't speak to anyone who ever attacked him.

My mother wouldn't allow me to speak slang when I was growing up. But when I got outside, around my friends, it was 'Yo' and 'That's the joint' and 'Yo, what's up?' So I had my game for my friends and my game for my mom.

Some leaders speak a lot in the dressing room, on the field and others do it with actions contributing important things in games, deciding big games.

There is power in having a friend group because you have this bond that helps you navigate girl world, and it creates safety and self-esteem. But if you speak up to the leader, you risk that social isolation or not having a group and feeling really left out.

You just have to speak up. You just have to say, 'I would like to do this,' and it's amazing what people who listen can do for you.

My goal is to be able to speak to everyone in the country and to be able to make everyone in the country think differently about our political system.

I love English, though I now call it 'Anglo- American' because we no longer speak British English due to globalization and America's economic power.

My father is my true inspiration. He's a motivational speaker, so he does a fine job of guiding me.

When I was 14 years old, I had the opportunity to meet Buddy Holly. I asked him how he got that big, powerful sound out of his guitar amp. He said, 'I blew a speaker and decided not to get it fixed.'

I love Paul Heyman, I think he's the most talented speaker.

Andy Andrews is the best speaker I have ever seen.

For a season, a gifted speaker can inspire with his words, but for a lifetime John McCain has inspired with his deeds.

I never got formal training in music. I would just sit with my ear to the speaker and my hand on the needle. I'd listen to Wanda Jackson and think, 'How did she do that?,' and lift the needle and try it myself.

My dad wasn't the best speaker like a Bill Clinton, or a Henry Kissinger, but he had character.

House Speaker John Boehner and presumed Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell understand the art of politics.

For more than a decade, Novartis spent hundreds of millions of dollars on so-called speaker programs, including speaking fees, exorbitant meals, and top-shelf alcohol that were nothing more than bribes to get doctors across the country to prescribe Novartis's drugs.

In a world where audiences listen for attitudes rather than arguments or information, speakers must feel the pressure to posture rather than engage.

Luckily, my father and my mother liked us to talk, so they encouraged us to talk, so that the girls in my house, they're all very powerful speakers and powerful agents of their own will, as is my brother.