Quotes About Influence

While a good leader sustains momentum, a great leader increases it.

Art functioning as propaganda is not art.

So long as one person remembers you, you'll never really be dead.

The highest praise we can attribute to any writer, painter, sculptor, builder, is, that he actually possessed the thought or feeling with which he has inspired us.

Leaders lead but in the end it's the people who deliver.

What affects one in a major way, affects all in a minor way.

What shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come my own?

Gods and men create one another, destroy one another, though by different means.

The market follows the artist. The artist does not follow the market.

If you hear how wonderful you are often enough, you begin to believe it, no matter how you try to resist it.

I change the world, the world changes me.

A book series is never truly over. The story lives on, even when the final page has been turned.

If You Hang Around with a Bunch of Blunderers Long Enough, you Will Become One Yourself.

As a sensitive person around other people, you feel their desires, you feel their angers, and you feel their frustrations. You begin to believe that these desires, angers, and frustrations are yours.

It's okay to be average, as long as you surround yourself with extraordinary people that you become the average of.

The poet who walks by moonlight is conscious of a tide in his thought which is to be referred to lunar influence.

We perceive and are affected by changes too subtle to be described.

If you can't be a good example, you'll just have to be a horrible warning." -Gwen Goodnight

If you want to be a sharp thinker, be around sharp people.

The economy has made me think I have no power. That is not true. I control the power to change my future.

My daughters depend on me for a lot more than food, clothing and shelter. They depend on me as an example of how to go on.

Kids really have a lot more power than they think they have. They have the power to change the world. And they should know it.

Music critics get their records for free so their opinions usually don't matter.

I'm not saying we have power over everything in our lives - if that were true, my hair would look so, so different - but I am saying that there's no circumstance in which we are completely powerless.