Reviews condition people. At the end of the day, a lot of human minds are malleable. They can be easily shaped with strong words.

If we go on your iPhone and go to the dictionary and look up ‚humble,‘ 80 per cent of the definition is negative. It’s a controlling word. It’s a way to control the masses and to control the sheep.

He who has great power should use it lightly.

There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us, and not we, them; we may make them take the mould of arm or breast, but they mould our hearts, our brains, our tongues to their liking.

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

What I’d really like to control is not machines, but people.

Actually, to be an effective person politically in this country, I think you have to be thirty or over, and also you have to be rich, well-placed, you have to be close to power. And I don’t think that young people, because they look young, can do much, as I think they are counterproductive.

The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world.

In Hawaii, some of the biggest radio stations are reggae. The local bands are heavily influenced by Bob Marley.

He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command.

If it weren’t for the Beatles, I would not be a musician.

When you say ‚follow me on Twitter,‘ and you get 10 million people to follow you – you just leveraged your influence to add value to an app that you have no ownership in.

Propaganda is amazing. People can be led to believe anything.

Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

Find what’s hot, find what’s just opened and then look for the worst review of the week. There is so much to learn from watching a restaurant getting absolutely panned and having a bad experience. Go and see it for yourself.

People’s minds are changed through observation and not through argument.

The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself.

It confuses me and disappoints me when somebody says, ‚What does he do? What does he do?‘ My records are some of the biggest anthems ever. What do you think, they magically just appear? Obama walked out to my record.

Whatever starts in California unfortunately has an inclination to spread.

Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling?

A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes.

Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children.

I am persuaded, you will permit me to observe, that the path of true piety is so plain as to require but little political direction.

Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.

Several excuses are always less convincing than one.

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

The Bible says that Christians are the salt of the earth and the light of the world. On the job, in the grocery store, even among unsaved friends and family members, God’s people are there to bring seasoning to an unsavory situation.

I’m pretty calculating. I take stuff that I know appeals to people’s bad sides and match it up with stuff that appeals to their good sides.

Leadership is influence.

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.

The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the five hundred, he reaches the five hundred thousand.

Bhai was my hero and he had immense influence on me.

We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.

I like Italian movies. I was frequently there in the ’60s, in Rome and the vicinity. It was a great period in life. I was very influenced by their stuff.

When I was growing up, there was nobody in my family – not even my mother – who I could look to and be like, ‚I know you’ve never said anything homophobic.‘ So, you know, you worry about people in the business who you’ve heard talk that way. Some of my heroes coming up talk recklessly like that.

Our schools and colleges are turning out people who cannot feel fulfilled unless they are telling other people what to do.

I feel like I’m changing pop culture.

I’ve used the prestige and influence of having been a president of the United States as effectively as possible. And secondly, I’ve still been able to carry out my commitments to peace and human rights and environmental quality and freedom and democracy and so forth.

With every word we utter, with every action we take, we know our kids are watching us. We as parents are their most important role models.

All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.

Power over a man’s subsistence is power over his will.

Charm is a way of getting the answer ‚Yes‘ without asking a clear question.

Diana Ross is a big inspiration to all of us. We all grew up watching everything about her – her mike placement, her grace, her style and her class.

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

There are massive efforts on the part of the internet’s corporate owners to try to direct it to become a technique of marginalisation and control.

Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces.

Persuasion is clearly a sort of demonstration, since we are most fully persuaded when we consider a thing to have been demonstrated.

Affluence means influence.

Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.

The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?

The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.

I know from having had a child, and from having been a child myself, that children will copy you.

I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.

It is wise to persuade people to do things and make them think it was their own idea.

I believe in that old adage that ‚as goes California, so goes the country.‘

Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.

A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example.

People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.

The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, ‚We did it ourselves.‘

The influence of a mother upon the lives of her children cannot be measured. They know and absorb her example and attitudes when it comes to questions of honesty, temperance, kindness, and industry.