Quotes About Influence

Let excellence be your brand... When you are excellent, you become unforgettable. Doing the right thing, even when nobody knows you're doing the right thing will always bring the right thing to you.

People of excellence will always be brought before people of influence.

The good and the bad mix themselves so thoroughly in our thoughts, even in our aspirations, that we must look for excellence rather in overcoming evil than in freeing ourselves from its influence.

If you want people to listen, you have to have a platform to speak from, and that is excellence in what you do.

For excellence, the presence of others is always required.

The media and their journalists are merely megaphones for stupidity, the verb par excellence.

Be an evangelist with your excellence.

Anyone can be a teacher or professor, but not everyone can influence you to strive for excellence and make a difference in the world around you.

People who personify excellence are people who invoke the same in others.

Well, I wouldn't say that this experience had any influence on my decision to do this film about Andy, because Andy was apolitical. Andy was never political.

The experience of the individual has become the experience of the people, thanks solely to the camera.

Everything I experience influences everything I do.

The Afro-American experience is the only real culture that America has. Basically, every American tries to walk, talk, dress and behave like African Americans.

My fans truly are a part of me, we share something that most people will never experience.

[Bob] Dylan crashed his motorcycle in 1967, and almost died. A few years ago, he referred to the experience as a "transfiguration."

Experience has shown that the trade of the East is the key to national wealth and influence.

I have very little experience of self-government. In fact, I am one of the most governed people in the world.

The stories we are told shape the way we see the world, which shapes the way we experience the world.

Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.

I try to sing and not worry about what's going to happen after I do. I'd add that in my experience, as a person who went to see singers, some people helped me to make some decisions about the world.

Memory is a fascinating trickster. Words and images have enormous power and can easily displace actual experience over the years.

Belief conditions experience, and experience then strengthens belief.

As we gain experience with the Holy Ghost, we learn that the intensity with which we feel the Spirit's influence is not always the same.

While my military experience reinforced in me the strength that I have, it also demonstrated to me that I have the ability and power to make a difference in people's lives.