Quotes About Influence

I grew up with horror. My dad loves movies, and he passed a lot of them on to me. There's something so fun about them.

My dad passed when I was 6. I found out when I was about 21 that my dad always said acting would be the making of me. Where he got that from, I have no idea.

If someone who's passed on your company as an investor offers you to make introductions, that's kryptonite. Don't touch that.

I know the British people and they are not passengers - they are drivers.

Any man's death diminishes us, but when an artist passes away, we lose not just an island but an entire archipelago.

Everybody's always going to have some self-interest. When it passes a certain point, that's when it become corruption.

I believe art is a connection, like passing on a flame.

I have certain guys who I looked up to. Jordan, Kobe, those guys. Passing that on to doing my part to kind of keep that influence of basketball where it should be is kind of why I play the game.

That's what Europe brought to the NBA: the passing skills, the shooting skills.

The passing of John Bonham... Let's just put it... Before we say, 'the passing of John Bonham,' the introduction of John Bonham on the first album and 'Good Times Bad Times,' it changes drumming overnight.

I think it's safe to say that if you talk to anybody in Ireland, they'll have a passing knowledge of the guitar. It was something that I couldn't get away from when I was younger: guitars played in shops and parties, just everywhere.

With the passing of Milton Friedman on November 16, 2006, we lost one of the great champions of free markets.

I grew up around a lot of artists and people passing through. I learned so much from them. I felt the safest with them - and the most endangered.

With the passing of Justice V.R. Krishna Iyer, who had just entered his 100th year, the world has lost one of the greatest judges and jurists of all time and also a fine human beings. He used his extraordinary juristic and intellectual gifts to help everyone he could and to address all forms of human suffering.

With the passing away of Mr Tarkunde, India has lost the father of the Civil Liberties movement in the country.

most historical relationships are ironical in character, or, to put it differently, that the course of history has little to do with the intrinsic logic of ideas that served as causal factors in it

religion has been the historically most widespread and effective instrumentality of legitimation.

Evangelical Lutheran Church was running Nazis out of Europe after the war in parallel with the Catholic Church's program.

the Necronomicon is also a manual not only of dream interpretation (a la Freud) but of dream control.

the bad leader is he who the people despise; the good leader is he who the people praise; the great leader is he who the people say, "We did it ourselves

When young people develop basic leadership and collaborative learning skills, they can be a formidable force for change.

The core leadership strategy is simple: be a model.

Si ya no dependen tantas cosas de la política, entonces es lógico esperar que se debilite no solo la voluntad de votar sino también el compromiso de los que siguen participando. Las opciones probablemente serán más volubles y más susceptibles de basarse en factores cortoplacistas. En la práctica esto también significa que los resultados electorales serán cada vez menos predecibles.

in the late 1970s, the controversial "Iroquois influence theory" posits that the Longhouse People's divinely given Great Law of Peace so inspired Franklin and others among the founding fathers that it served as the model for the Articles of Confederation, the governing document of the United States for the first decade of its existence, and the precursor of the Constitution ratified in 1787.