Quotes About Influence

It's not just how many people are feelin' you, it's who is feeling you.

To lead the people, walk behind them. — LAO TZU

Beyonce is the most amazing woman in the world.

Sometimes I don't think I've done anything to leave my mark in this world. I'm the kind of person the world leaves a mark on.

Success is causing the world around you to aspire to your inspiration.

You are not a success until you start changing other lives permanently.

The mass audience doesn't want to see you if you aren't perfect. If you don't look a certain way, if you don't have big pecs and great skin and the perfect eyes. And it's unfortunate, because kids are growing up with body image dysmorphia because not everyone is represented on the screen.

Who you allow into the circle of your life will make the difference in the quality of your life.

Black people dominate sports in the United States - 20 percent of the population and 90 percent of the Final Four. We own this sh*t. Basketball, baseball, football, golf, tennis, and as soon as they make a heated hockey rink we'll take that sh*t too.

Yeah, I love being famous. It's almost like being white, y'know?

I think my best work is when I'm kind of in charge.

If you can keep your son off the pipe and your daughter off the pole, you're ahead of the game.

All of us have an earthly father whose image we carry buried deep inside, an image that manifests itself in ways unrecognizable to us but nevertheless professes the touch of another human being.

Stephen Colbert: Here's the thing: You said to me and to many other people here years ago never to thank you, because we owe you nothing. Jon Stewart: [quietly] That's right. Stephen Colbert: It's one of the few times I've known you to be dead wrong… We owe you because we learned from you, by example, how to do a show with intention, with clarity. How to treat people with respect. You are infuriatingly good at your job, okay?

If people are engaged, eventually the political system responds, despite the money, despite the lobbyists, it still responds. ~ President Obama

Certain peer pressures encourage little fingers to learn how to hold a football instead of a crayon. Rumors circulate around the schoolyard: kids who draw or wear white socks and bring violins to school on Wednesdays might have cooties. I confess to having yielded to these pressures.

These were conquests that were never reversed, and they affected the whole geopolitics of Europe and Asia ever after.7

I touch the future. I teach.

Die Glocke reißt Gedankengänge ab in der Schulstunde, schneidet Plaudereien in der Pause auseinander, trennt Freundinnen im Garten, macht Herzklopfen vor unangenehmen Schulstunden, reißt einem die Tasse vom Mund beim Frühstück. Die Glocke ist Befehl. Unpersönlicher, gnadenloser, ewig gleichbleibender Ordner eines ereignislosen Daseins.

To become oneself, with all one's strength. Difficult. A bomb, a speech, a rifle shot -- and the world can look a different place. And then where is this self

Schwer, langsam, aber endgültig habe ich mich von dem Glauben gelöst, dass unsere menschlichen Geschicke an den Gang der Gestirne geknüpft sind. Daß dort Seelen wohnen, ähnlich den unseren, die unser Dasein betrifft, und sei es, indem sie die Fäden, die es halten, mißgünstig verwirren.

To become oneself, with all one's strength. Difficult. A bomb, a speech, a rifle shot-and the world can look a different place. And then where is this "self"?

My dad was the biggest influence on my life because he was never boring.

Harold Bloom weeps for me.