Quotes About Influence

I have created nothing really beautiful, really lasting, but if I can inspire one of these youngsters to develop the talent I know they possess, then my monument will be in their work.

Leadership is not defined by the exercise of power but by the capacity to increase the sense of power among those led. The most essential work of the leader is to create more leaders.

The subjective mind is entirely under the control of the objective mind. With the utmost fidelity it reproduces and works out to its final consequences whatever the objective mind impresses upon it.

The work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind forward.

A man's a man. But when you see a king, you see the work of many thousand men.

I work with pictures and words because they have the ability to determine who we are, what we want to be and what we become.

Create your world around your work. Create your work around your life. Let other people help you shape it.

Before puberty the child's personality has not yet formed and it is easier to guide its life and make it acquire specific habits of order, discipline, and work.

In the space of seven years I have succeeded in accomplishing a great work and uniting the whole world in one Empire.

Motivation is everything. You can do the work of two people, but you can't be two people. Instead, you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people.

More important than a work of art itself is what it will sow. Art can die, a painting can disappear. What counts is the seed.

It is our art that has an opportunity to leave a footprint in the sand. They don't wrap fish in our work.

It is something that artists do all the time unconsciously, working in the style of someone they consider a great master. I just wanted to make that relationship literal.

Don't ask what the work is. Rather, see what the work does.

A leader shapes and shares a vision, which gives point to the work of others.

A great man leaves clean work behind him, and requires no sweeper up of the chips.

Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.

I work with The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University. I sit proudly as one of only two recovering addicts on their board.

If you just communicate, you can get by. But if you communicate skillfully, you can work miracles.

Rather than focus on your critics, focus on the people who are impacted by your work.

Many of our deepest motives come, not from an adult logic of how things work in the world, but out of something that is frozen from childhood.

One isn't born one's self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people's ideas – and you have to work through it all.

I find, by close observation, that the mothers are the levers which move in education. The men talk about it . . . but the women work most for it.

I swear to God, I don't remember anything Gwyneth Paltrow was in. Some people get hot by association. I heard more about her and Brad Pitt and I ever heard about her work.