Quotes About Influence

If a child has an older sibling involved in an addiction, there is a 90 percent chance that he or she will get involved too.

I have as much input to the blues; I just never got the chance, the opportunity or maybe the respect.

The downside of videos is that it will put my vision in front of other people, so they might not get the chance to create their own.

All a guy needed was a chance. Somebody was alway controlling who got a chance and who didn't.

With social media, you have the chance to be the Lutherans that Luther imagined.

You never can tell when you send a word, Like an arrow shot from a bow By an archer blind, be it cruel or kind, Just where it may chance to go!

The young people have read my book. Now I have no chance.

I am grateful I got the chance to meet Stevie Wonder! He's like royalty to me and is one of my biggest inspirations.

Your will cannot always choose the path; very often the route is determined by chance or by the will of others.

Without music, there is not the faintest chance [Bob Dylan] words would now be garlanded as they are.

A President has a great chance; his position is almost that of a king and a prime minister rolled into one.

If, by chance, you find that you are losing hope, tap back into those who inspire you.

Almost all the people who've had the most effect on me I seem to have met by chance, yet looking back it seems as though I couldn't but have met them.

When I was 12 years old, my pastor came to the church: Dr. Fredrick Samson. And that was revolutionary because he mentored me and I got a chance to see up close the impact of a rhetorical genius.

Never miss a political meeting if you think there's the slightest chance you'll wish you'd been there.

But if Christians don't get Jesus right, what chance is there that other people will bother much with him?

Can anyone alter fate? All of us combined... or one great figure... or someone strategically placed, who happens to be in the right spot. Chance. Accident. And our lives, our world, hanging on it.

We're all watching each other, so there's no chance for censorship. The main problem is the idiot TV. If you watch local news, your head will turn to mush.

At a time when the limits of leadership are being tested in so many places is your time to rule in your own territory.

I give out Atlas Shrugged as Christmas presents, and I make all my interns read it.

Without credible communication, and a lot of it, the hearts and minds of others are never captured.

We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.

We are indebted to Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin for giving us a weapon. The weapon is not a machine-gun, but Marxism-Leninism.

To listen well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well