Quotes About Influence

One of the great things about being in entertainment is you have access to the media. People pay attention to you.

It's good to aggravate people a little. It makes them pay attention.

When I'm on, people watch; people pay attention.

You just keep shining a light and hoping people will start to pay attention.

Some people kind of get lost in what everyone else is doing and not pay attention to themselves, and I think I'm one where I pay attention to myself and can set the example for the people coming up.

I really like United States so I pay attention to what goes on here. I don't really pay attention to what goes on overseas or in other countries, unless it affects us, then I'll pay attention.

I think there's a danger in letting someone else shape how you're going to approach a player. Every person has somebody who's going to say something negative about them, you know? If you pay attention to all that stuff instead of seeing it for your own eyes, you can miss out on some opportunities.

I don't pay attention to a lot of people - I pay attention to a select few, and that's worked out well for me.

I wouldn't describe the artist Theaster Gates as a mentor, but I pay attention and keep my ears open when I'm with him.

If you're going to get elected to anything in Mississippi, you have to pay attention to and court the black vote.

My dad was a huge country music fan, but he also had a band and he sang. So he'd listen to a lot of music and the songs that he'd learn for the band were more from the male artists. So my earliest country memories were Waylon Jennings, Conway Twitty, George Jones, Johnny Paycheck even.

Because of what I did when I was 10 years old, I'm not living from paycheck to paycheck, and I can do things because I want to do them.

It is my job to sell these fighters. I'm now a business partner of the UFC. What I do directly affects my paycheck. I try my best. I just don't want people to be indifferent.

I had seen a lot of bullying on social media. If this is happening to me, who only a few people are paying attention to, what happens to somebody who is on a bigger scale?

You can't be a major company today without paying attention to celebrities. They are the leaders in beauty and fashion.

Doonesbury had the requisite and overwhelming influence in 1980, as it did on any college cartoonist who was paying attention, of course.

If someone really wants my company's business, why shouldn't he be able to do everything he can - including paying me off - to get that business? Because bribery encourages people to make decisions based on the wrong criteria, which means in the business world that it distorts the efficient allocation of resources.

I think we are paying a lot of attention to China one way or the other. They are a big factor in the world. They are successful; they are growing. They want to grow their influence, and all the countries in Asia want to be their friend and want to benefit from China's development and success.

Elon Musk with PayPal revolutionized banking.

To be an icon is a big job - it's beyond acting. And sometimes it pays, and sometimes it doesn't.

It's all run by one person, but, real talk, Brandon McCartney is a book author, the Based God is perfect and Lil B is the trendsetter, the person that everyone follows and pays attention to.

If anyone pays me a compliment, I'll do almost anything.

I happen to dig being able to use whatever mystique I have to further the idea of peace.

Only a strong America can guarantee a peaceful world.