Quotes About Influence

Presidents are not only the country's principal policy chief, shaping the nation's domestic and foreign agendas, but also the most visible example of our values.

There is a side of the Moon which we never see, but that hidden half is as potent a factor in causing the ebb and flow of the Earth's tide as the part of the Moon which is visible.

I like art with a visible string to the world.

What I've discovered and try to integrate into my show is when you're up there, and you are loud and more visible, you're setting a tone for how people can behave and how they can feel comfortable behaving.

At Accenture, we are visibile, and I feel when you are visible - when people are watching you - you need to speak up.

Ivanka was relentless and was determined to be the First Daughter Lady and to usurp office space out from under Melania; she wanted to be the only visible female Trump on the premises.

My job as an actor is to be visible and to tell stories.

Nowhere outside of Southeast Asia is China's rise as a global power more visible than in Africa.

I was involved with Gary Kirsten only for the Test matches, a very short period. He was, again, someone who worked in the background and didn't make himself visible. Exactly how I'd like to work as well. Not in the front, but behind the scenes.

We need women leaders. But we need them to have a vision for something.

I believe to be a leader is to enable others to embrace a vision, initiative or assignment in a way that they feel a sense of purpose, ownership, personal engagement, and common cause. I was very affected as a child by my father's positive example as a civic leader who inspired others to share his commitment to improving our community.

Good leaders must communicate vision clearly, creatively, and continually. However, the vision doesn't come alive until the leader models it.

Leadership is about vision and responsibility, not power. And I try to model that in all of my interactions.

I don't think it's my job, single-handedly, to fix anything. I think it's my job to have a vision and have a plan that is reasonable and workable and get as many people to the table to effect change as possible.

Popular culture is most powerful when it offers us a vision of how our society should look - or at least reproduces our reality.

Personal ambition is 'I want to be CEO.' Greater vision ambition is, 'I want to lead this company so that people want to work here.'

Exceptional leaders don't impart just vision, rather they cultivate the emergence of vision.

No one can be like Raj Kapoor as far as his vision is concerned, not even me.

Rahul Gandhi himself doesn't have any vision or the political acumen to be able to differentiate between sycophancy and sincere advice.

True leadership isn't about having an idea. It's about having an idea and recruiting other people to execute on this vision.

As a director, I love being able to really be a contributing factor to the overall vision of a project.

It was interesting to find how dominating American vision is all over the world. I think there's something to be said about the world's mindset and its economics and all of that, and I think it affects the way we see ourselves and it affects music.

You can't make an artist like Lady Gaga. You can help support, you can help develop the vision - I think you can add to the vision - but you just can't make an artist like that. That's like saying Lebron James' high school coach made Lebron James.

But if the vision is strong enough, and your goals are steady, and you believe, pretty soon you bring other people with you.