Quotes About Influence

I struggled more with my identity. Let's be honest - early on in my first records, I didn't have the power to tell David Foster or other producers what to do.

To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful.

Girls often feel very powerless in their lives and their families, and they kind of mimic the male violence as a way to try and get some of that male power that they see lacking in their own lives.

The greatest advantage of books does not always come from what we remember of them, but from their suggestiveness, their character-building power.

Every parent in America has the total power to control all television programming that is dispatched to their home today.

Power can be very addictive, and it can be corrosive. And it's important for the media to call to account people who abuse their power, whether it be here or elsewhere.

I don't know how you can do it, if you don't recognition the media as a power center in America.

Culture follows power.

Between your brain and your mouth (or your fingers) is magic: your power to choose what you say next. Use that magic.

The spell of power never quite releases its hold.

You know, if you think about it, the most powerful people on this earth probably never raise their voices - they just say it and people hop to, because they have that power.

Franklin Roosevelt was a great leader. He saw how to use the levers of power to affect change.

Well, I'm not involved in polemics. I never wanted to have any position of power, and I don't have it.

Those who exert the first influence upon the mind have the greatest power.

It might sound goofy, but I do believe that emotions have power. We're all driven by something, and most of that is emotional reaction.

It's absolutely crucial that we come face to face with the power of our choices.

Believe in the power of your own voice.

Contrast increases the splendor of beauty, but it disturbs its influence; it adds to its attractiveness, but diminishes its power.

'Tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in one's power to do good, riches being another word for power.

We all want to be guilty, because guilt is power.

That artists are called to be more responsible and 'true' is a tip of hat to their power.

It is a common happening that those in power, as their tenure of office continues, find themselves less and less able to contemplate relinquishing it.

This world is inescapably linked to the motions of the worlds above. All power in this world is ruled by these options.

Movies have heart. Have mind. Have power. Have ambition.