Quotes About Influence

I was on Khodorkovsky's payroll myself for ten years. I'm biased because I respect him.

It is still a surprise when people tell me that I've had an influence on them, particularly when it's someone I really respect.

There was not an awareness of pop culture in the household. There was a lot of respect for working hard, and for intellectual and professional achievement.

I have nothing but respect for the Lakers. So many of their legends shaped who I am as a person and player.

Respect is the key determinant of high performance leadership. How much people respect you determines how well they perform.

We are well on our way to becoming a banana republic in every respect except, of course, that we don't grow bananas.

The NBA definitely has some trendsetters that stay up on the latest fashion, but I think you're starting to see guys like myself and others get some much-deserved respect in the style department.

The desire to please those we admire and respect often cripples conscience.

...the people at large absolutely gave James Brown respect. He was an original like a Rembrandt or a Picasso

I respect the Kennedy family. I respect their service. They do a tremendous amount of good. You don't blame the children for the sins of the father and all of that.

Good press, bad press, whatever, only means a lot to me if it's writ by somebody I respect, by somebody I like.

The Bronx are great. I have a lot of respect for those guys, they know more about music and how that world works than most of the players out there.

I have a satellite radio show called 'The Legends of Reggae.' It's a cool way to branch out and do other things. I'm paying respect to the legends of reggae.

Affecting the world is obviously possible when we see people in the world who we really love and respect and we see how that they affect our lives.

I have a position of indirect respect and oblique power.

If I were to vote, I would intentionally vote for the goofiest candidate. It is my theory that when the people can outwit the leader, the more respected their voices will be.

When people believe that what you believe is what they believe, they turn you into a belief.

How can you respect the world when you see it's being run by a bunch of kids turned old?

Other people's belief changes you. We all have insecurity, and uncertainty, and to have that glow cast over you by somebody that you respect, makes a gigantic difference.

Who dispenses reputation? Who makes us respect and revere persons, works, laws, the great? Who but this faculty of imagination? All the riches of the earth are inadequate without its approval.

Words are in this respect like water, that they often take their taste, flavour, and character, from the mouth out of which they proceed, as the water from the channel through which it flows.

Well you know, I have the utmost respect for people like Angelina Jolie and Zoe Saldana in 'Colombiana.

Man cannot influence in this respect the atomic forces of Nature.

I respect Millar, sir: he has raised the price of literature.