Quotes About Influence

I'm a very spiritual person. And it affects my work greatly.

Universities ought to be aware of the degree they would want to accept funding from governments like China to work on, say, face recognition technology.

In every great time there is some one idea at work which is more powerful than any other, and which shapes the events of the time and determines their ultimate issues.

Some people may say my curved panels look like sails. Well, I am a sailor, so I guess I probably do use that metaphor in my work - though not consciously.

The office of the prince and that of the writer are defined and assigned as follows: the nobleman gives rank to the written work,the writer provides food for the prince.

Throughout, the work of Tyndale formed the foundation, and more than anyone else he established the rhythms and furnished much of the language which is familiar to us in the Authorised Version.

The other day, someone called me this generation's Bruce Dern - I'd never thought of that, and frankly, I don't know enough of Bruce Dern's work to comment on it, though he is an incredible actor.

Aside from women, I don't know. My work doesn't function the way Robert Frank's did.

Have you ever considered that, just perhaps, the reason you have gotten as far as you have is because of the invisible work of anonymous Angels?

Every leader wants to put his or her imprint on the work that they do, and grow up in specific eras.

I think soft power definitely can work. But, you know, it depends on who you're dealing with. Some people are so intent upon power and keeping power that it's very difficult to conduct soft power.

I always like to borrow bits and pieces of things. There's a line between jumping on something that's happening and incorporating bits and pieces of it into my work.

World events are the work of individuals whose motives are often frivolous, even casual.

If anything, hearing another poet is a sacred experience I enter, but I can honestly say this does not influence my own work.

Does that really work, converting someone with a bumper sticker? How weak of a mind do you have to have?

It's still too early to say how my wife will influence my life. But I do already know that it's sometimes hard work living with her.

Wherever I sit is the head of the table.

Does anyone actually think I'm going to call Tiger Woods and tell him what to do with his swing one day, and he's going to go out and do it, simple as that? It doesn't work like that.

At a certain point, you have to convince the actors that you've done the right thing. The way I work, if I can't convince them, I've got to move on. I can't coerce them or browbeat them.

The only thing left for Barack Obama to do is to work like a third world dictator and just put all these guys in jail.

We also had an "in" with MTV those days. Tara Reid was engaged to Carson Daly. She just called him and was like, "Do you want to be in the movie?" So they kind of had to make it work.

[Ronald] Reagan seems to be a man of some basic convictions and on the other hand willing to let others do the ground homework, the detailed work.

A work of art must carry in itself its complete significance and impose it upon the beholder even before he can identify the subject-matter.

It is a trite but true definition that examples work more forcibly on the mind than precepts.