Quotes About Influence

Here's the thing: When you become brilliant at listening, people feel that you care about them. When they feel you care about them, they begin to care about you. And when people care about you, your success becomes a part of how they define their success.

To define the era we live in is very difficult. How do we define it? We define it by music.

Films are a part of my being, they don't define me.

I get kids who say, 'Oh, I love your movie, but my mum loves your dad.' It's really nice to be able to share that with him, but it doesn't define who I am career-wise.

The people inside the company are the people who define GE, not the people outside the company.

Black people have to define who we are, or others do it for us.

As the leader of the Bullet Club, I can't slow down now. I am an example for everybody who thought just slapping the Bullet Club logo on you would define your career.

I came out of a lower-middle-class background. At that time, everyone used to define themselves: Stalinist, Maoist, whatever. I thought they meant 'miaowist'. Seriously! Something to do with cats.

Snoop ain't never cosigned me, but I know everybody is like, 'That's the next Snoop.' Nah, I'm Nipsey, and I got to work to define myself.

Sometimes we think roles define us. One can emerge beyond the confines of their roles to make an impact on society.

To me, that's how I want to define my career, is making a difference in big games.

The market didn't define the music; the music defined the market.

The party is defined by the people that are in it, not necessarily the politicians.

For me, a place is defined by the kind of people inhabiting it.

My whole life is not defined by what Hollywood does.

Media is a powerful thing, and you see it with so many actors, where one role that brings them a lot of attention is sort of how they get defined.

I grew up with SpongeBob - it came out in 1999, right before I turned 7. So it's been a part of my life and all my friends' lives and defined our humor, in a way.

I grew up with games. It changed my life. It changed my social relationships with my friends. It defined my childhood. It's something I really cherished.

Where you are defines what you're interested in.

I wish parents at the end would think a little bit about how everything we do affects the lives of our kids and defines who they're going to be.

Our past absolutely defines everything we do in the present. We can't help it. We're made by the events of our past, so there's no escaping it.

You have to decide what it is that shapes and defines you. I'm a big sister and a co-parent with my mom before anything. That's my root of all. It's my foundation.

Even without football, football doesn't define Shaquem Griffin. It's who he can help that defines him.

Finding a way to make a difference is arguably far more defining than any collection I have brought to market.