Quotes About Influence

My work... is my legacy.

The future destiny of a child is always the work of the mother

I got a chance to work with Stallone and De Niro - pretty much sums it up for me. You can tell where you're going in your career by the company you keep.

I've always worn a hat when I work. I think it also comes from a picture of Rothko I saw with a painter's hat on.

I feel empowered to be a different kind of writer. The longer I stay here, the more light filters into my work. I feel very American. I belong.

Your work gets destroyed by dumb people and it gets enhanced by smart people and it really doesn't have anything to do with marketing.

Bisexuality is almost a necessary factor in artistic production; at any rate, the tinge of masculinity within me helped me in my work.

Character is a mark cut upon something, and this indelible mark determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

I hope the millions of people I've touched have the optimism and desire to share their goals and hard work and persevere with a positive attitude.

A boy, by the age of 3 years, senses that his destiny is to be a man, so he watches his father particularly-his interests, manner, speech, pleasures, his attitude toward work.

The key is not to worry about being successful, but to instead to work toward being significant - and the success will naturally follow.

You know, Johnny Depp has always been a massive inspiration for me and he's somebody who has produced an incredible amount of work, and every single piece that he does is amazing.

Jerome Charyn is one of the most important writers in American literature and one of only three now writing whose work makes me truly happy to be a reader.

Every noble life leaves the fibre of it interwoven forever in the work of the world.

If I don't have anything better to do that day, I'll copy paintings, generally by people who have some relationship to the work of the moment.

There is a powerful force within us, an un-illuminated part of the mind - separate from the conscious mind that is constantly at work molding our thought, feelings, and actions.

I had to figure out how to bring the world into my work.

If there is going to be change, real change, it will have to work its way from the bottom up, from the people themselves. That's how change happens.

One thing I hope I'll never be is drunk with my own power. And anybody who says I am will never work in this town again.

The books we enjoy as children stay with us forever -- they have a special impact. Paragraph after paragraph and page after page, the author must deliver his or her best work.

In theory, I'd like to work in a group. But the group I'd like to work in, all the musicians in them are long since dead.

The hidden hand of the market will never work without a hidden fist.

Influence comes out of the work that you've done and the things you've stood for. Influence and power shouldn't be given to just anybody who wants them.

Your spirit lives on in your work. YOU decide what manner of work that will be.