Quotes About Influence

I think the people who end up being extraordinarily successful - it's been my observation - tend to care enormously about status, particularly business people, right? Because the only point of money, you know, the only reason to have a 300-foot-long boat is because they're bigger than 200-foot-long boats.

Russia has taken advantage of its exalted status among right-wing extremists to expand its influence throughout Europe.

When you have a celebrity status, people feel inspired by you people. They start to emulate what you are doing. So it inspires me as a celebrity to do something which is for greater good.

I only want to use my status as a comic actor to bring about a difference to society.

Political status does not necessarily depend on nuclear capability.

People who demand neutrality in any situation are usually not neutral but in favor of the status quo.

Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo.

The status quo and the media is doing everything it can to fry children's brains and make them grow up maladjusted.

The truth is, every movie is a message movie. It's just that most movies have messages that are in lock step with the status quo.

The only kind of influence I want to be on anyone is by being, constantly and consistently, someone who probes herself at every juncture, improves the way in which she functions as a citizen, and questions the status quo.

I went to my first live concert when I was seven, with my mum Eleanor, a staunch Rod Stewart fan. I've never looked back.

Both my parents are Catholic and staunch believers. I'm not a Catholic now, but I still carry part of it with me.

The outcome, the fourth in an issue of five boys born into a staunch Baptist home, meant that from the beginning I was taught to be respectful of others no less than myself, influencing ever since both my political and administrative attitudes.

Dictators fall when they're overconfident; they stay in power when they're paranoid.

Good or bad, if people still talk about you it means that you have managed to stay relevant.

I'm driven by music. It's in my blood, and I've never been able to stay away from it for too long.

I try and stay positive; being negative isn't good for my personality. I don't just bring myself down, I bring everyone around me down. It's like a dark cloud, 'Uh oh, here we go,' and have to snap out of it.

I'm not boasting or nothing but a lot of people have a lot of love for me. I'm a legend, but I stay H and H, hungry and humble.

I influence myself, because I always try to be different and stay in my own lane.

I can't stay in L.A. too long or it starts to grow on me in a bad way.

Characters can stay with you.

Courtney Love gave me advice on how to stay focused. She told me I have a lot of positivity and I have a lot of light and to just stay on that path, because it's easy to become affected by the negativity.

We work so hard to stay true to country music. People can say they don't like it, but they can't say it's not country.

My thing is related to who I am as a person. The clothes are an extension of me. The music is an extension of me. All my businesses are part of the culture, so I have to stay true to whatever I'm feeling at the time, whatever direction I'm heading in. And hopefully, everyone follows.