Quotes About Influence

People long to help each other, to be together, to share experiences, to be part of a community, to influence the powers that control their lives.

We are so blessed as artists and entertainers, and we should use our powers to raise awareness of things where we can.

I know there are certain powers who would rather have the champions be Eastern European because there's more money in it.

As actors, we do have certain powers. I want to use them for the right cause.

My grandfather is my biggest fashion critic. He takes a keen interest in the millennial fashion, most of which he disapproves of, but he is a very practical fashion critic.

It's good to be on the power list, but I don't see a practical use of it except when people introduce me to audiences.

Much of the discussion around how people look at women focuses on culture, as if the media is entirely to blame. As if, without magazines and commenting hosts, we'd all suddenly dress in practical overalls and only judge a person on the quality of their charity work and poetry.

I am all-giving like my mother and practical like my father.

We practically own everything in the Philippines.

I just feel like I influence people because I'm like - I was practically homeless.

The Left is not a major electoral force in many states; in some, we are practically not there.

I had a teacher/director at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, where I trained for a year, named Mary Duff, who taught me practically everything I know.

I actually feel like the phrase 'big in Japan' is not appropriate for me. The reason is that there are more people who sympathize with my practice in America than there are domestically in Japan.

How can we make sure that Confucianism is to be practiced? One must enforce it with power, and to have power, one must have a strong army.

I retire from competition with great pride at having had a positive impact on my sport. I intend to keep training and practicing martial arts for as long as I live, and I look forward to watching the new generation of champions carry our sport into the future.

I'm a practicing Catholic. And faith is very, very important to me. It was pounded in my head as a kid, and I hated it. And I sort of lost my way in my 20s and part of my 30s and then found my way back. And I don't know what I'd do without it. It's huge in my life.

My father was a studio musician, played for a lot of people like Frank Zappa and a lot of R&B bands, and was always gone doing that. Then when he was home, he was practicing. And so I always saw it, and I always wanted to do what he did.

She was the one getting me to practise football. My father has helped in other ways but my mum was the one grabbing the ball and telling me: 'Come on! Let's practise now. Let's go. Right, right, left, left.'

Growing up, I remember watching 'Little House on the Prairie' and 'L.A. Law' and being so obsessed with it.

I grew up in a town called Prairie View. It's like 45 minutes outside of Houston.

My mother, she didn't believe in praise. She'd never say anything was great. I think that's quite Northern, to not make people feel too good. I didn't mind if she was proud of me or not, it didn't bother me. I was never trying to please her.

Let us now praise Barack Obama.

My dad knows great music. So I'm taking music to him to get an opinion rather than praise.

If there was no Bill Bowerman, there would have been no me. He had about as much of an impact on my life as any one person could have. He taught me about competition and ingrained it in me. He taught me not to praise ordinary performances.