Quotes About Influence

A great man may be the personification and type of the epoch for which God destines him, but he is never its creator.

A man is involved in life, leaves his impress on it, and outside of that there is nothing.

Man or woman in the White House. How about that?

You train your man to do nothing.

You think about every piece of idiomatic speech adopted by white men over the past ten or twenty years; virtually all of it comes from hip-hop.

About 97% of the media is created by men.

Sound and sufficient reason falls, after all, to the share of but few men, and those few men exert their influence in silence.

The phrases that men hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence.

The man who occupies the first place seldom plays the principal part.

My papa said son don't let the man getcha and do what he done to me.

Man becomes virtually an automaton in the loss of his individuality and responsibility. He is the harp of a thousand strings played upon by a divine hand, but not a man!

With [Fred] Zinnemann I did A Man For All Seasons. He was my screen godfather. I'm happy to say he was.

Literary men are . . . a perpetual priesthood.

If we are disappointed that men give little heed to what we utter is it for their sake or our own?

The common man is impelled and controlled by interests; the superior, by ideas.

All rising to great place is by a winding stair; and if there be factions, it is good to side a man's self whilst he is in the rising, and to balance himself when he is placed.

Freud, Sigmund: A man so dissatisfied with his own mother and father that he devoted his life to convincing everyone who would listen — or better still, talk — that their parents were just as bad.

The man who says to one, go, and he goeth, and to another, come, and he cometh, has, in most cases, more sense of restraint and difficulty than the man who obeys him.

Affirming words from moms and dads are like light switches. Speak a word of affirmation at the right moment in a child's life and it's like lighting up a whole roomful of possibilities.

I've known my mom since I was zero years old. She is quite dope.

My dad never blew anything up, but he probably had friends who did. He and my mom have always preached that the pen is mightier than a Molotov cocktail.

What's the ROI of your Mom?

My pops and my mom started playing Marvin Gaye and the Isley Brothers and all these people, but at the same time, they always had Snoop on right behind it in the same mix.

If I made a list of the people I admire, Mom would probably fill up half of it. She could do anything and everything.