Influential Quotes

Public opinion can be influential, the media can be influential.

Marlon Brando is the most influential movie actor of the century.

In the pursuit of education, individual desire is more influential than institution, and personal faith more forceful than faculty.

The most influential of all the virtues are those which are the most in request for daily use. They wear the best, and last the longest.

Anyone who grows up with parents who are very influential, there are cases where people run away from that if they have parents who are really lame.

Because words have deep meaning, Tweets have power.

In my life the most influential people are people who are sort of brought to me, as opposed to people I seek out.

I am so honored to be named as one of Time's 100 most influential people.

To be influential in our conversations, we must first be aware of two things, (1) what do we want to bring to the conversation and (2) what do we want to bring out in others.

I've been too productive for too long, and despite what anybody wants to strip away from me, I am influential. I am.

Every hour of every day, at every level in every organization, influential people succeed and non-influential people don't.

I think it's interesting that people like Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi said that the Tea Party was dead and they weren't influential and yet they're still talking about the Tea Party.

Make a list of 200 prestigious, influential, and powerful people with whom you want to work, play, grow and do business.

Now that the generation that grew up on '80s indie-rock has attained influential positions in the culture, that music is the new yardstick. And that will shift yet again some day.

Brian Burke as we now know was the most influential person in the West Australian Labor Party, if you could attract him, you're in business.

Eddie Van Halen was probably the most influential.

Human kind has little or nothing to do with the recent temperature changes. We are not that influential

It's not necessarily a large number of people that affect the culture. You don't count the number of influential voices, you weigh them. A hundred people can affect the culture.

Part of becoming a little bit older and having the opportunities that I have, you want to start giving back to people who have been influential and helped you along the way.

Jesus gave the world its most influential movement.

The illusion of design is so successful that to this day most Americans (including, significantly, many influential and rich Americans) stubbornly refuse to believe it is an illusion.

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is the most influential woman in Washington - for what she has accomplished and for what she may yet do: win the presidency.

Followers have a very clear picture of what they want and need from the most influential leaders in their lives: trust, compassion, stability, and hope.

My favorite parable for living a positive and influential life is the Golden Rule: Do unto others what you would have them do unto you.

If Mrs Merkel wants to wear Westwood, I can promise that I will design clothes for her that will make her look chic, refined and influential.

I knew the Beatles songs and how influential they are to other bands, but I'm not a fanatic, so I could look outside the box and observe.

It is now no mystery that some quite influential 'philosophers' were 'mentally' ill.

A creative idea will be defined simply as one that is both novel and useful or influential in a particular social setting.

It may be the first in what I trust will be a rapidly growing and influential genre--the novel designed on purpose to be excludedfrom the Booker short-list.

The most influential thing was the two Chris Rock specials that came out when I was in high school. I was obsessed with that stuff.

You have to look also to the media, where you have a vast majority of the loudest and most influential political voices in America media from people who came from the entertainment world.

In order to become more influential with those who are resistant to our point of view, we must be willing to start with what is influencing them.

Pope John Paul II was unquestionably the most influential voice for morality and peace in the world during the last 100 years.

Certain punk bands were influential because I thought, If they can do that then I can .Hanging around those bands was how I started my first band - In Praise of Lemmings.

My acting teacher in high school was really influential, and we still keep in touch.

Many businesses with unpopular products or inefficient production find it much easier to curry the favor of a few influential politicians or a government agency than to compete in the open market.

Every time I make a movie, I'm prepared for it to become influential and career-defining - but I have no control over these things.

I'm one of the highest-paid television people in the world. I feel like I've made a difference in my viewers' lives, that I've been influential.

Earning success is hard. The process is laborious, tedious, sometimes even boring. Becoming wealthy, influential, and world-class in your field is slow and arduous.

Rousseau was mad but influential; Hume was sane but had no followers.

A girl's father is the first man in her life, and probably the most influential.

As journalists, we need to find every avenue to distribute our work, and try to be so good that we become increasingly more influential than before.

Obviously geek culture is super influential, the web kind of started from a very geeky point of view because geeks are all about technology.

It is in vain that we would circumscribe the power of one half of our race, and that half by far the most important and influential.

If I can have an effect on influential women and men, if they seek me out because they are interested in self-knowledge and the fun of meditating, then I'm glad to help. That's why I'm here.

Fair and unfair are among the most influential words in English and must be delicately used.

It is no accident that the rise of so many democracies took place in a time when the world's most influential nation was itself a democracy.

A great song is something that you go back to in twenty years and it's still so influential to you.

The new album is a childhood dream come true. Got to sing with Ronnie Spector, got to cover a bunch of songs that were influential in drawing a line between the punk form and original rock and roll.

I do not criticize people who take a public stand on human rights issues. I express my respect for them. But some people are more influential without a public confrontation.