Quotes About Influence

This genre of music seems to want to push people into a certain time slot, which is unfortunate.

It's unfortunate when kids get hurt, but I wish parents would monitor what their kids are doing and watching. It's common sense, really.

I think it's really unfortunate that academics have been sidelined in most important policy debates.

It is unfortunate whenever someone tries to bring politics into sport.

My kids, they take a lot from me and I always come from an intellectual place. Like intellectually, not emotionally, and most people come from an emotional place and it's unfortunate.

It's so unfortunate that people have this need to join gangs.

In the age of term limits, unfortunately, you see power not in the people who are elected by the people, but instead more in the hands of the people who are working behind the scenes.

Management is the set of skills that can help get things done. Unfortunately, its practice is too often a bag of manipulative tricks to advance someone's own interests, which creates cynicism.

Unfortunately, money in politics is an insidious thing - and a loophole in our campaign finance system was taken advantage of with money going to existing or new 527 groups with the sole purpose of influencing the election.

Talking to people from the heart matters, and it's unfortunately something brands have forgotten about. Celebrity endorsement deals try to gain recognition for brands, but at their core, what matters is if the celebrity truly backs the brand.

Sometimes, unfortunately, hatred is more powerful than progress.

My mother is the reason I'm in fashion. She worshiped it. Unfortunately, she infected me.

The Internet unfortunately means that, although a lot of truth and good stuff can spread as a result of the Internet, I think bad stuff and negativity spreads even more quickly.

I don't think there is enough educational programming, but unfortunately, television is built around advertising and those shows don't get the big ratings.

One of the true pleasures of my life has been the work of John Steinbeck. He was one of the people who turned my life around. I had no direct relationship with him, unfortunately.

I listen to somebody like Shawn Lane, and unfortunately he is no longer with us, but I hear him playing and I am like, 'That is just absolutely ridiculous.'

Tony Blair is a brilliant politician. Unfortunately, his legacy is entwined with George W. Bush because of Iraq.

Unfortunately, the overwhelming moral force exerted by leaders like Gandhi comes by too rarely in the life of a nation.

The tendency everywhere in America to concentrate power and responsibility in one man is unmistakable.

There are no working hours for leaders.

Will and wisdom are both mighty leaders. Our times worship will.

Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.

Every civilization must contend with an unconscious force which can block, betray, or countermand almost any conscious intention of the collectivity.

if we lose our human values by having everything mechanied, then machines will dictate our lives.