Quotes About Influence

Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.

Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed.

Films are meant solely to provide entertainment. There are no lessons to be learnt and and inferences to be drawn. Has anyone become dutiful and law abiding after seeing a film that espouses these very virtues? Films can do no more than influence fashion, decor, and hairstyle trends.

Chinese culture has a lot of virtues that are tremendously valuable to not only us as Asian-Americans, but also the world in general.

We are carrying these images out into the world, and we can't control how people contextualize those images no matter how virtuous our aspirations and our intentions are.

Shaming people into being virtuous doesn't change behaviour.

Misinformation is a virus unto itself. And Fox News is the vector.

People say to me now, 'Oh, you've given up the piano.' How can you? Music is a virus.

Human beings are a wonderful virus in some ways.

Ultimately with our band, it's word of mouth. It seems to be the largest cause of The Hip outbreak - if we can align ourselves with a virus.

McDermott and two colleagues - James H. Fowler of the University of California, San Diego, and Nicholas A. Christakis of Harvard University - published a paper titled 'Breaking Up is Hard to Do, Unless Everyone Else is Doing it Too.' Their study shows that divorce can spread like a virus among friends, siblings and co-workers.

Behavior is a virus. We spread our behavior to those around us, whether passively or on purpose.

Images contaminate us like viruses.

If you are a businessman or a politician in Iran, you can get a visa as quickly as you ask for it.

The whole idea behind the EB-5 visa was to help create jobs in economically disadvantaged areas. But where big bucks are involved, corruption soon follows, and with Chuck Schumer and the EB-5 visa program, you need to follow the money.

I remember George Jones singing on television, but not any of the songs he sang. What I remember was my visceral reaction to him, the intensity of my distaste.

My visibility may have gotten Hollywood to redefine what's attractive.

One of the powers of a sit-in is its visibility and potential to mobilize public opinion; the way the protest is reported in the media can have a powerful influence over its eventual success or failure.

Danica Patrick, even if she was not super successful results-wise, did a lot for our sport and its visibility. That was an element that fans really did appreciate, and it brought some awareness and different eyes to out sport.

I have a platform and the visibility to take a stand and do it in the right way.

The presidency is the most visible thread that runs through the tapestry of the American government. More often than not, for good or for ill, it sets the tone for the other branches and spurs the expectations of the people.

There are three elements to perceived popularity. A student has to be visible, recognizable and influential.

In the film industry, we tend to pick up where others have left off, and I'd like to think the influences I picked up from Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, Sylvester Stallone and Jean-Claude Van Damme are visible in my work.

There weren't really any visible men in my family when I was growing up, but of course there have been men in my life, wonderful men.