Quotes About Influence

Will we act upon life, or will we merely be acted upon?

A piece of writing is a dangerous thing," he said. "It can change your life.

Whenever your life touches mine, you make me stronger of weaker... there is no escape... people drag others or lift others up.

In my life there have been several individuals whose presence made it easier for me to think, pleasanter to make my responses.

There is only one person responsible for the quality of life you live and that person is you.

Great men are necessary for our life, in order that the movement of world history can free itself sporadically, by fits and starts, from obsolete ways of living and inconsequential talk.

Art informs life in so many ways, and vice versa.

The Mekons were kind of like the background music of my life.

You changed my life. You changed my ways. I don't even recognize myself these days. It must be a reflection of you, only you.

This life we have is short, so let us leave a mark for people to remember.

To do what you wanna do, to leave a mark - in a way that you think is important and lasting - that's a life well-lived.

It is the members of this business elite . . . that pose the greatest danger to our American way of life. They are the ones who've bought and paid for members of both political parties. . . .

Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born.

We are each a concert reverberating with our whole lives and reflecting and amplifying the world around us.

We tried in our simple way to lead our life in a manner that may make a difference to those of others.

I don't want to be someone's reason to hate their life. I want to be someone's reason to seek something more in their life.

I can't just be the girl who sang 'I Kissed a Girl.' I have to leave a legacy.

I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.

The thing I realize is, that it's not what you take, it's what you leave.

Keep the weeds of negative influence from your life. 'Farm' the seeds of constructive influence.

I like my father being the boss in my life

No, if there's any ultimate redemption, it would be because I passed though your life without scarring you, and did not diminish who you are.

I propose that there is another kind of power based not on resources, things, or attributes, but rooted in the social and cooperative relations in which people are enmeshed by virtue of group life.

There is not an inch of any sphere of life over which Jesus Christ does not say, 'Mine.'