Quotes About Influence

There is nothing North Americans seem to fear so much as manipulation, probably because at some level we know that we belong to a deeply manipulative system.

The moment when a feeling enters the body is political.

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

The force of passion is balanced by the force of interest.

I learnt that if I want to make any difference, or changes to my world, then I've got to be involved. We need passion - that's how things change.

We decide based on how people look; we decide based on how people sound; we decide based on how people are dressed. We decide based on their passion.

There is nothing I'm any more passionate than empowering the next generation.

If you're passionate about your work, it makes the people around you want to be involved too.

I learned more complex ways to manipulate the manipulators, to bring attention to issues about which I felt passionate.

You have to lead people to get excited and be passionate and be activated by what you do.

I do think that even with entertainment and telling stories, people in the entertainment industry have such a beautiful position in the world to speak about things that they're passionate about in a way that can grab people more than just sitting and telling someone about something, because you can show it visually.

I find that it's not the numbers but the quality of the audience. That's why it got to be such a big thing when I left Microsoft, because I had an interested audience; not huge, but passionate. The passionate ones are the ones who change society.

Not a great deal is known about the factors in childhood that doubtless underlie a person's choice of career - I'm talking now about a career to which one is passionately committed, in contradistinction to a career chosen merely as a means of earning a living.

If you love something, if you're passionate about it, that's where you're going to have the greatest impact on the people around you: by living in those passions and sharing that passion with other people and sharing your gifts and what God created you to be.

One of my passions in life is to try to inspire people. I don't know if that sounds cheesy, but I genuinely love to do that.

Middle grade fiction, to me, is really about emergence of self. It's about expressing the idea that the world is going to start affecting you more, and your parents' influence is going to wane. Middle grade is when a lot of kids discover their passions - art, music, sports, what have you.

Music has always been one of my life's greatest passions - shaping, influencing and motivating me on a daily basis.

Listening is an activity. It's not passive. We are creating the world by listening all the time.

I think you can't be passive in making this film - or in watching it.

I'm sure my children will be artists. I hope they will direct because it is much more interesting. Acting is great, and I love it, but it is very passive, and it depends on other people's desire, and you depend on others all the time.

Nothing changes more constantly than the past; for the past that influences our lives does not consist of what actually happened, but of what men believe happened.

To my mind, one does not put oneself in place of the past; one only adds a new link.

The environment that we call society is created by past generations; we accept it, as it helps us to maintain our greed, possessiveness, illusion.

The darkest aspects of imperialism are still very much prevalent in many cultures around the world; hundreds of years later, and we have a collective responsibility to encounter the deeds of our past.