Quotes About Influence

The word power has such a generally negative implication in our society. What are people talking about? Are they talking about muscles, or control?

The negative side of football. The negative side of our society. People sometimes go to football and bring to it the negative aspects of our society.

Every team has leadership. The leadership is the best players. But there's positive leadership, and there's negative leadership.

All my early books are written as if I were Indian. In England, I had started writing as if I were English; now I write as if I were American. You take other people's backgrounds and characters; Keats called it negative capability.

I think we should all have a responsibility not to affect other people in a negative way.

I always imagine the world and myself above it and how minute one negative person's voice is in comparison to the amount of people that are in the world.

Everybody can make a choice to be more positive. It's about who you hang around and what you choose to watch on TV. What environment you put yourself in. It's easy to get a negative internal dialogue. You have to be aware of what's playing in your mind.

I feel like kids in general, not just African-American kids, are influenced by what they see, both positive and negative.

I've got these high negatives because the Koch brothers have spent a year attacking me.

My dad was my best friend. I worshipped him. All of my success in life really comes from him. He believed that you get nothing from negativity.

Few are drawn to the person whom others avoid and neglect; people gather around those who have already attracted interest.

Everyone is hungry for content and you are content creators and if you are not negotiating a good price no Robinhood is coming to save you.

If you go into a negotiating room and are like, 'Well I was on the same card as Conor McGregor, so maybe I should get a little bit more money,' they'll probably just look at you like, 'What? In what universe does that even make sense?' So I don't see how anyone could possibly think it's going to be a trickle-down effect.

A writer who doesn't need the money gains power and is dangerous in a negotiation.

To someone like me, who has watched trade negotiations closely for more than a quarter-century, it is clear that U.S. trade negotiators got most of what they wanted. The problem was with what they wanted. Their agenda was set, behind closed doors, by corporations.

Most of the time, if you ask a kid who's their best friend, it's usually a classmate or their neighbor or something, but for me, it was my granddad. Everybody knew him - they called him Mr. Jones.

My childhood neighbor played piano, and he told me we'd get all the girls if I learned how to play-and I was probably in eighth grade, going into high school, so I said, 'Sign me up.'

Any time anyone says anything nice about me, whether it's Lady Gaga or your neighbor, it's a nice feeling, I'm very grateful for it. It's very helpful for your career. Every time someone says something complimentary it introduces you to their audience. It gives you credibility.

You start learning English in fifth grade. I was 12. But even before then I was listening to American music. My neighbor was a really big hip-hop fan, so he taught me everything around hip-hop.

That's the potential power of a single voice - a neighbor's, a teacher's, a parent's, a friend's. It can change you, make you feel as if you have a place in the world.

When I went to high school, my whole neighborhood, they followed me. They wanted to see me be successful.

Within the black community, I'm definitely a neighborhood celebrity.

I grew up in a racially mixed neighborhood. So going over to friends' houses for dinner, their parents listened to Al Green and Luther Ingram. It was something that hit me early on, the feeling that came across.

All the music that I play today, I actually heard either at home or in my neighborhood when I was growing up in the '40s and '50s.