Quotes About Influence

My mom was a great tennis player, and I remember being six or seven years old watching Steffi Graf and Monica Seles in Wimbledon in my house. I've always been a tennis fan.

A great person is one who affects the mind of their generation.

Shakespeare was the great one before us. His place was between God and despair.

All truly great art is propaganda.

I think there's great potential for autonomy, but we have to remember that we live in a world where people may have free will but have not invented their circumstances.

I never thought of myself as a mogul, but it's really great to be in that position.

Of course my father was a great influence on me. He taught me how to read.

One of my great influences was Don Knotts as Barney Fife.

Hines Ward, Plaxico Burress, Jerome Bettis-they are great leaders. I listen to everything they say.

Boy bands should be exploded from a great height. They're just pretty people singing music written by others.

The x factor of a great leader is humility combined with will.

When I was starting to write, the great influence was T.S. Eliot and after that William Butler Yeats.

I'm always amazed when I hear people saying, "That George Bush, he's a great leader". And I wonder, where can one find a drug that would make one so delusional?

It is easier to develop great power than it is to know how to use it wisely.

It is not the genius at the top giving directions that makes people great. It is great people that make the guy at the top look like a genius.

The writing of history is largely a process of diversion. Most historical accounts distract attention from the secret influences behind great events.

People are always coming up to me and saying, 'I heard your dad's speech, and it's really great.' And they'll mention some place I didn't even know my dad was going to.

A complainer is like a Death Eater because there's a suction of negative energy. You can catch a great attitude from great people.

Great power involves great responsibility

It's a spirit that was given me and the relationships and meeting all these great people, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong; through Max I met a lot of people too. My first album was with Benny Carter.

By the by, if the English race had done nothing else, yet if they left the world the notion of a gentleman, they would have done a great service to mankind.

Mrs. Parks was a shy, soft spoken woman who was uncomfortable being revered as a symbol of the civil rights movement. She only hoped to inspire young people to achieve great things.

A saint is one who makes goodness attractive. Surely, a great teacher does the same thing for education.

My dad always said to me that with fame comes great responsibility, which has always stuck with me, even though I think he stole that line from Spiderman.