Quotes About Influence

It's hard whenever someone makes the wrong choice that affects others around him, but you can't let that change who you are.

As an adult man now of forty-one years old I have often used this refrain to get people to do what I want them to do. I didn't know who else to turn to. It gives the person your trying to manipulate nowhere to go. Their only option is to capitulate.

But she knows this isn't true. They're more than just people. They're a mood, a feeling, a vibe, an aspiration. They're like a music video or a trailer for a really cool movie. They're a billboard poster for a hip clothing brand.

He didn't wait to be formed by the universe. He shaped the universe to his will.

And it was Dad who helped monetise it all, got me on Glitch, managed my subscriptions, opened my bank accounts. He did all of that for me. He was the one who made me famous.

Plus, you know, some fathers and daughters just have that sort of thing, don't they? Daddy's girls. They usually turn into the sort of women who can only be friends with men.

Walter didn't really have much to do with the girls' schooling, especially after all that business with the social services when Erin was in year six.

Seduction is merely encouraging a man to do something he already wants to do.

The right words can bind someone more effectively than chains.

Once he had taken hold, he did not let go. It was not a handshake, it was a possession.

Good," he said softly. "Set the world afire. Just let me hand you the matches.

Love was the secret behind everything...love was what made vineyards grow and filled the spaces between the stars, and fixed the ground beneath his feet. It didn't matter if you acknowledged it or not. You couldn't stop the motion of the earth or hold back the ocean tides, or break the pull of the moon. You couldn't stop the rain or pull a shade over the sun.

These impossible women! How they do get around us!

If you have to tell someone they call the shots, they're not really calling the shots.

I've lowered my character with a great deal of unwholesome reading material.

For everything I do, I think about a 6-year-old girl and her mom that I saw at my concert last night. I think about what those two individuals would think if I were at a club last night. I never want to be arrested, and I never want to get a DUI, those are my moral values.

My mother, may her soul rest in peace, shaped my personality; thanks to her, I have acquired many values, good traits and skills.

I'm really close to my mother. She sacrificed a lot for me and my sister. She gave up her career. Whatever I am today is due to the values my mother instilled in me.

Our morality is based on so many factors: of where we were born, who we were born to, what values were instilled in us, what values we chose, the way that our lives have shaped us. That dictates so much of what we assume is our morality, and also the culture, all of these things.

Leaders who master emotions can rob us of our capacities to reason. If their values are out of step with our own, the results can be devastating.

The Italian culture and values have significantly shaped who I am, and I would never intentionally demean or degrade the very culture that has been so integral to my life.

I can't bear to look at Paris Hilton and all that. I mean, it really doesn't grab me. I don't think she's interesting, and the sense of values seems sort of off-kilter.

My secret agenda is to convey my values to my kids.

From the subtle to the extreme, our culture and our values are under unrelenting attack from the media.