Quotes About Influence

Where you're from shapes you, but you can actually do whatever you want.

When you think about your heroes, it absolutely shapes how you play and who you are.

My family thought - and thinks - very seriously about words. About language and what it means and how it shapes us and how it should shape us and change us.

Our parents have, by far, the greatest influence on shaping who we are and how we deal with the world.

I really believe that parents need to know they are shaping the future of their children.

InMobi will play a critical role in shaping the future.

Throughout his amazing life, my father played important roles in shaping U.S. policy towards China.

Shakespeare is global - of course he can be shared.

The first time I shared my music and style with my mom, she said, 'Boy, you look like you came right out of the 1950s.'

I have been around a long time and shared some very elite company.

What a woman is taught, she shares with her family.

I'm someone who has a voice, and shares my opinion.

That's what you want to keep sharing with the players in today's world: knowing that you represent yourself and your family each time you step on the court and to be the best at it because you never know where it leads to after it's all said and done.

You have to have sharp elbows if you want to change something.

I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep.

Even the sheep are afraid of me.

Whatever I am today is because of my directors. Without their sheer hard work on me, I wouldn't be an actor.

The shelf life of an artist or musician isn't particularly long.

The United States can't be sheriff of the whole world.

The Shield was my idea.

Media truly has the power to create and shift culture.

We're going to have more women run for office. We can shift what's going on in Congress.

My head was - I wasn't screwed up, but I feel like I was shifted away from my family a lot with this basketball stuff. You have people coming around you saying they are family or whatever. They try to keep you away from your real family. That kind of got me.

I think hip-hop always shifts culture.