Top 1200 Influential Person Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

I got addicted to the hands-on problem-solving through the process of making or designing something. Architecture school was really influential and amazing.

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

When I became tired of oil painting at one stage, I used collage and this proved to be influential in the design and composition of my later works.

A nice person is a 'yes' person, whereas a good person is a person who accepts their responsibility in things and moves forward and tries to constantly evolve and isn't afraid to say no or challenge someone or be honest or truthful.

I have no way of knowing whether or not you married the wrong person. But I do know that if you treat the wrong person like the right person, you could well end up having married the right person after all. It is far more important to BE the right kind of person than it is to marry the right person.

A person once asked me, in a provocative manner, if I approved of homosexuality. I replied with another question: 'Tell me: when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?' We must always consider the person.

The most influential people strive for genuine buy-in and commitment - they don't rely on compliance techniques that only secure short-term persuasion.

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.

The Beijing government avidly asserts its control over matters of reincarnation as a way of securing the loyalty and political complexion of influential Tibetan figures.

Framing effects can be very influential, and to the degree that you can think of a task as close rather than distant, you're more likely to actually get it done.

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.

If I started thinking too much about how influential I've been, then I'd be more of a turd than I already am.

I credit NTI, truthfully, with everything as far as where my head is and what my goals are and dreams are. I would say it was probably one of the most influential moments of my life, being there.

Das Kapital, I think, is very difficult to read, and for me, it was not very influential.

The most influential people in my life are deceased. These include my parents, George Dunne, and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., my minister in college.

Everybody wants to act like I ain't a big deal when I am. I'm one of the most successful, relevant and influential rappers of my generation.

My mom and dad used to tell me, 'You've got to see this film,' and they were influential to a high degree of the films I saw as a kid.

I believe in person to person; every person is Christ for me, and since there is only one Jesus, that person is only one person in the world for me at that moment.

[A.J. Muste] was very influenced - in - influential in the peace movement, in the civil rights movement.

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.

The broader and more influential organisations of businessmen have acted to undermine the basic foundation of the free market system they purport to represent and defend.

My father's music was influential. My place is my place. I must be myself and who I am.

The South was influential in my life. It helped form who I am. I went to New York out of drama school, and I lived in California.

At every stage of my career, I sought out the most influential people around me and asked for their help and guidance.

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.

If you are a woman, if you are a person of color, if you are gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, if you are a person of size, if you are person of intelligence, if you are a person of integrity, then you are considered a minority in this world.

The war against the Black Liberation movement by the FBI/U.S. government was most influential for me in seeing the necessity for armed self-defense.

Of course former colonial powers are always more present and influential. They're the ones who need to defend the EU's values on the frontlines.

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

I realized the power of hip-hop. I realized how influential this music and this culture are.

The most influential thinker, in my life, has been the psychologist Richard Nisbett. He basically gave me my view of the world.

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.

I’m a morning person and a night person. So I have to be a nap person, or else I’m a tired person.

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.

Most people think that I heard Bob Dylan first and got a cap and harmonica. Really, it was Woody Guthrie. He was so influential.

The devil doesn't care how big your church is - he cares how influential it is.

It would be hard to find a more influential book of Biblical studies than his Canaanite Myth and Hebrew Epic [1973].

Phil Collins sold five times as many records as I did. Does that make him nearly as influential as I am? Nope.

Even when influential political and media figures vehemently complained about the criticisms I wrote, Salon's editors unfailingly stood behind my work.

As the centuries pass, the evidence is accumulating that, measured by His effect on history, Jesus is the most influential life ever lived on this planet.

I want to be the most influential champion, in a positive light. I want to change the world.

'Das Kapital,' I think, is very difficult to read, and for me, it was not very influential.

I want to see as many movies as I can and I covet a lot of weird influential movies.

You need to fight cases in the courts, but you certainly cannot rely on the courts, you need to testify in Congress and lobby your Congress person, but you certainly cannot rely on Congress. You need to speak out in the media, but you cannot totally trust the media either. You need to work within the academy because that's an influential opinion body. I think that one of the lessons that people have learned in the civil rights community is that it is generally not enough to focus on litigation in the courts.

A committed giver is an incurably happy person, a secure person, a satisfied person, and a prosperous person.

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.

When a young person, even a gifted one, grows up without proximate living examples of what she may aspire to become--whether lawyer, scientist, artist, or leader in any realm--her goal remains abstract. Such models as appear in books or on the news, however inspiring or revered, are ultimately too remote to be real, let alone influential. But a role model in the flesh provides more than inspiration; his or her very existence is confirmation of possibilities one may have every reason to doubt, saying, 'Yes, someone like me can do this.

I've written short stories in first person, but you have so much more control writing in third person. Third person, you know what everybody's thinking. First person is very limiting, and I could never sustain a first person novel before.

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.

My father was this huge, influential intellectual in the '60s and '70s. He was one of the main players in the cultural discussion in Sweden, the editor of papers.

I loved Justice and Uffie and everyone signed to the label Ed Banger. They were really influential to me when first started making music.

For me, I listened to a lot of female jazz artists. And of course, the Motown and Philly sounds, all that stuff was very influential. And church and gospel.

I don't think I'm a witty person. To me, a witty person is a funny person who is also a smart person. My friend David Rakoff, who died a few years ago, he was a witty person. Fran Lebowitz is a witty person. I don't think there are that many witty people around, so you tend to notice them when they do come around. I don't consider myself to be that.

Influential people have a profound impact on everyone they encounter. Yet, they achieve this only because they exert so much influence inside, on themselves.

My circle includes some of the most influential people in the world. They all occasionally suffer from depression. Our DNA is built to serve and interact, not be worshipped.

You look at war as something that is putting your best friend in jeopardy. You are responsible for the person in front of you and the person behind you, and the person to the left of you and the person to the right of you.

If you look at any movement Hip Hop would be the most influential in the last maybe 15, 20 years.

I do not invent characters. There they are. That's who they are. That's their nature. They talk and they behave the way they want to behave. I don't have a character behaving one way, then a point comes in the play where the person has to either stay or leave. If I had it plotted that the person leaves, then the person leaves. If that's what the person wants to do. I let the person do what the person wants or has to do at the time of the event.

Why in times of need do we call on that one person? Why do we confide in that one person. Why do we feel safe with that one person? Why would we follow that one person anywhere? Because that person is a leader.

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