Quotes About Influence

Images can make realities out of people and struggles - the reality we give them. Images really matter.

When you take other people's opinions, you end up flailing and you have no center.

I have a mentor. I have... guides. I have a lot of guides. Not a lot, but people whose opinions I really respect and who I will turn to.

People will always have their opinions; I've come to learn whose matter.

The more people I reach, the more people there are that have opinions about me. Not everyone loves me, but I have to be okay no matter what they think about me.

On a very basic level, many people think celebrities have too much already, so we shouldn't be entitled to our political opinions.

Television provokes strong opinions, and sometimes we try a bit too hard to appeal to everyone.

It is true that some people are interested in the buying part of things... They want to buy everything from the movie reviews to the media net to the opinions and so on.

I leave everyone to have their own opinions of my music and my influence - or not - on others.

I learned a lot from Cherry Jones, from the questions she asked and the opinions she had.

My gut is my No. 1 asset. I also like to draw from a lot of people, and I ask a lot of questions. I'll literally show my ideas to 500 different people and get their opinions, and, in the end, after digesting all their opinions, I just trust my gut.

It's a really natural thing: The people closest in your life are the people you want the first opinions from. At the end of the day, if you're not trying to impress those people first, then I think there's something wrong there.

I don't really consider myself a teacher. I think - like, I have opinions like everyone else, and I just share my opinions.

I know, it sounds generic and is a cliche, but coming from a middle class family in Kanpur, it was always the neighbourhood opinions which mattered.

I can't have people always having their opinions floating my way.

Gigi is a leader during the big moments in any season, on the pitch and off it. Everyone, whether they're a team-mate or an opponent, says he makes the difficult things look easy.

The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category.

I try to build up people, not break them down, and in politics, it seems now the game is breaking down your opponents.

Dictators never invent their own opportunities.

The influence I would hope to have is to create an environment where we're not singling Americans out - that we are creating opportunities for all Americans. Not saying, 'I'm going to funnel money into your city so that you're completely dependent on government.'

With the success of a show, you get an opportunity to call attention to things that you believe in.

Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave.

I love the opportunity to affect change in people's lives.

I've been given an opportunity to make a difference.