Quotes About Influence

I think literature has lost it's power. Great novels continue to be written, but they are no longer changing the world.

I wasn't a great communicator, but I communicated great things.

George W. Bush is not only a great president; he was a great candidate.

There's been no poet, no great poet in the history of poetry who hasn't also been a great reader of poetry. This is sometimes distressing to my students when I tell them this.

There has been an Irish lobby that has impacted U.S. foreign policy for a century and a half, and at times made our relations with Great Britain very difficult. Other comparable lobbies exist.

If President Bush does a lousy job, then he'll lose power. If the guy at McDonalds who's selling burgers does a great job, then he'll be much more powerful than President Bush.

Great minds do indeed react on the society which has made them what they are; but they only pay with interest what they have received.

In all sincere speech there is power, not necessarily great power, but as much as the speaker is capable of.

What the great ones do, the less will prattle of

I think if you've managed Celtic or Rangers you can go on to be Prime Minister of Great Britain, it's that hard.

Litle stickes kindle the fire; great ones put it out.

I have no doubt that 'On the Road' is a Great American Novel. But I'm also certain my students will do fine without it.

Every great leader has a generosity gene.

People tell us they have been inspired by our music to do great things.

The great unknown in this country is where this leaves the Republican Party after this election. Will it be the party of the Kochs or will it be the party of [Donald] Trump?

Average people push great people out of a company.

I was very much influenced by a great book by the scholar Neil Richards called Intellectual Privacy, that [Louis] Brandeis changed his mind on the proper balance between dignity and free speech.

Matter of fact, the way we got a path, a great friend, Arlen Specter, I convinced him to switch parties. Not a joke. Not a joke. He was the deciding vote.

Every great idea exerts, on first appearing, a tyrannical influence: Hence, the advantages it brings are turned all too soon into disadvantages.

A great leader has the ability to instill within his people confidence in themselves.

Great visions are cast one on one.

A great man stands on God. A small man stands on a great man.

Owning a great golf course gives you great power.

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.