Quotes About Influence

You can't learn how to have presence. I walk into a room and people say 'I wonder where he's been?' When other people walk in, they say 'I wonder where he's going?'

I just feel like being on the floor for more minutes allows me to give my presence.

I do make a difference. I just come out and provide a presence in the paint, defensively and offensively. I play hard.

I don't think I am a big artiste but the new ones do get intimidated by my presence.

You know how it works here. If you don't have the presence of Bollywood, people won't recognize the sport. Even an established game like hockey had to include some Bollywood tinge to it.

I just love Madhuri Dixit. Her presence fills me with positive energy.

It's not about scoring, it's having that presence out there and managing the game and getting everyone involved.

Why was Effenberg a leader, because he was outspoken? Or because he had a certain presence on the pitch? When that's the criteria, OK, then maybe I have a different definition of what a leader is.

Was Effenberg a leader because he projected presence or because he had a presence? There is a difference.

Nobody compares to Drake as far as hits, but Michael Jackson had presence. That's the difference.

Success for me is finding ways to lead and be a presence.

The future influences the present just as much as the past.

The ambassador was never present, but his presence was never absent.

I always feel like the past informs my present musically.

If you want to get each individual's honest opinion, you don't want that opinion to be influenced by others who are present, much less allow a group to coordinate what they are going to say.

I look to historians for their power to illuminate not just the invisible lineaments of the present, but also that which is not present. What are the roads that were not taken that most shape our own time?

International summits and organisations like WTO take decisions, which will bind us, and if we are not present in such summits, we may be hurt by the decisions taken.

History is weirdly dismissed as not having anything to do with the present moment.

The lavish presentation appeals to me, and I've got to convince the others.

My parents wouldn't let me shave it earlier, so I made a PowerPoint presentation to convince them. I strategically put pictures of bald women in there.

Even though The Cure helped pioneer the jangly, dance-oriented guitar and keyboard style it continues to embrace, there are other bands that now employ the post-punk style with greater flair. This leaves The Cure's live presentation seeming a bit anonymous.

I am convinced that great ideas that are powerfully presented can change a mind in five minutes.

The smorgasbord of images now presented to us is getting bloodier. They're becoming more frequent - almost hourly.

My parents were perfectly open-minded about everything. They never tried to convince us of what was true or what wasn't true in their minds. We were just presented with the information that was around and pretty much allowed - though, I mean, we knew how they felt. We knew they didn't go to church. So obviously that had an effect.