The wonderful situation that I find myself in now, is that choosing the roles I want is more of a reality for me. As a result, I take it very seriously, because I find this opportunity in film to be a very powerful and influential medium.
Could it be that my circle is largely black and that it is why I am influential in black circles but not in white circles?
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.
Adopting the behaviors and habits of surrendered people helps us improve our relationships, feel love and gratitude, get healthier, give up destructive people and behavior patterns, and become more successful and influential in our lives and careers. And that's just the tip of the iceberg as far as benefits go.
Adults are naturally most conscious of directing the conduct of others when they are immediately aiming so to do. As a rule, they have such an aim consciously when they find themselves resisted; when others are doing things they do not wish them to do. But the more permanent and influential modes of control are those which operate from moment to moment continuously without such deliberate intention on our part.
[A. J. Muste] was very influenced - in - influential in the peace movement, in the civil rights movement.
Obviously the original 'Tron' was a very influential movie for its time, so to be a part of the second one is very exciting.
The human brain is a funny thing: it's very susceptible to tempo and melody. You put the right words to it, and it becomes very influential.
That was a time when I did love music, I couldn't get enough of what was going on. Maybe it was Nirvana that brought me back. I guess it was a comfort because something that sounded so right - and non-commercial - had become so influential, so immediately.
Music is very influential to my writing, as are theater and film.
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.
A girl's father is the first man in her life, and probably the most influential.
Parents can be very influential in designing those little creepy-crawlers that jump around in your mind for the rest of your life. It's the fear of not being good enough.
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.
The influential man is the successful man, whether he be rich or poor.
A great song is something that you go back to in twenty years and it's still so influential to you.
In my life the most influential people are people who are sort of brought to me, as opposed to people I seek out.
If any influential nation had the great spiritual strength to lay down its arms and appear with clean hands before the world, the world would be changed. I see no evidence that any influential nations has such great spiritual strength and courage. Therefore disarmament will be a slow process, motivated by the wish to survive.
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.
I think that the idea of family is a very powerful and influential and disjointed thing that will always captivate me.