Quotes About Influence

I am not so famous. I'm known in a few countries like Italy, Austria, Germany, Switzerland and around the Alps. Some climbers in Beijing know my name, and some in America, but I am not really famous. It's very relative, my fame.

The sword is the axis of the world and its power is absolute.

The pen is mightier than the sword, and is considerably easier to write with.

Beneath the rule of men entirely great, the pen is mightier than the sword.

The oil can is mightier than the sword.

Media is a double-edged sword and has the power to change hearts and minds through authentic storytelling as well as the power to paint a person, or an entire community, in a dim and misleading light.

I mean, it's a bit of a double-edged sword being a celebrity and being an actor as I'm sure you know. Your public laundry is constantly aired out and I thought that maybe I could do some good.

I was fourteen, watching 'The Princess Bride' for the 254321th time, captivated by Wesley and Inigo dueling on the cliff-top. I had never held a sword in my life, but I phoned my mum and said, 'I want to learn to fence!'

The joke is mightier than the sword.

For too long, I equated leadership with a position. I thought leaders were presidents or politicians or celebrities or four-star generals with a horse and sword.

I've changed Sydney. It's my city, my people. I'm theirs. We belong to each other.

Syllables govern the world.

I used to print out lyrics from Nas songs and write my own lyrics in the same syllable count but with different words and different rhymes.

We often find far more power in a symbol than in something that is an an actuality.

I think Mick Jagger would be astounded and amazed if he realized that to many people he is not a sex symbol, but a mother image.

Rather than a big figure, I guess you could say I'm more of an influential minority symbol.

Mr. Burns is a father symbol to me, and you can omit the word symbol.

I realized, 'Oh, it's easier to get what I want if I embrace the sex symbol thing.' Microphones are more in my face, and I can say things about the kids that I mentor and open more access to more doors.

It's crazy that people are looking to me as a symbol like, 'Oh, he's the voice of the youth. He's this and this and that.' I feel like there's a lot of pressure that comes with it, when people look to you as the face of something.

People look to me for guidance or responsibility. People put a lot of stuff on me as a symbol of something, which is nothing I opted into, but it's a responsibility I take seriously regardless.

Once upon a time the 'GG' was a status symbol. It was the reason people were buying.

When mobile phones came out, they were a status symbol. Now the status symbol is having someone to manage your mobile phone for you.

If Obama's enormous symbolic power draws primarily from being the country's first black president, it also draws from his membership in hip-hop's foundational generation.

I just think that everything is symbolic, and who you are determines everything that you do, small moves and big moves.