Quotes About Influence

I find that as an athlete, we don't get to speak our mind often or share our hearts. So I chose motivational speaking to help make a difference.

You are not speaking for yourself, but for Ireland.

You have those people speaking really good things in your life and it grows and produces fruit later on. But somebody had to initially plant those good seeds.

I want to do public speaking and cause campaigning. I want to write a book.

We have a government that, generally speaking, does not respond to the people.

We are so indebted to our ancestors, musically speaking, that they have left us 400 years of music.

Rex Ryan is definitely a very confident individual and, when you have someone who believes firmly in what he's speaking, you naturally absorb it.

I know that speaking with parties, which I do, but not very often, is seen by many as a 'contamination.'

My flow follows sometimes what's going on in the hip-hop industry even though I'm speaking Jamaican patois.

Being an author is always like being a well-run dictatorship - it's all one person speaking.

If only Coca-Cola had had the kind of message to accompany its addictive deliciousness that Fox News has, we'd all be speaking Cokelish today.

I grew up listening to people speaking broken English. I probably picked that up. And I probably speak English almost as a second language.

Washington is a place where politics and economics often aren't on speaking terms.

Obama's a great speaker. Because of his speaking ability and his appearance, a lot of guys got on board. Being the first African American, a lot guys got on board.

A public role endures for the literary high-command, as sages and seers, speaking out on social and political issues.

When I was a child, I grew up speaking French, I mean, in a French public school. So my first contact with literature was in French, and that's the reason why I write in French.

I sensed that Confucius is an interesting character. This is someone who lived over 2,500 years ago and is still speaking to us. That people are still reading and repeating what he said so long ago is something I find quite fascinating.

The voice of authority speaks not for the one but for the many; authority figures have a strong and rapid effect on social norms in part because they change our assumptions about what other people think.

To be censored is one sure way of knowing you have been taken dead seriously. It also speaks to the continuing power of the printed word, almost fifteen hundred years after that amazing invention.

The landscape you grow up in speaks to you in a way that nowhere else does.

I can do much, I can do everything for a man who will be my friend. I can give him power; I can give him wealth. I can give him reputation - the power, the wealth, the reputation which come to a man who speaks to a million people a day in the columns of a great paper.

Every time Emma Gonzalez speaks, I listen.

Obama provides hope. Whether he does anything, the hope that he provides for a nation and outside of America is enough. Just being who he is. You're the first black president. If he speaks on any issue or anything, he should be left alone.

I want to create a body of work that is entertaining and speaks to people for a long time. Longer than my life span.