Quotes about "Leadership & Influence"

While I don't feel like I'm an evangelist, country music is about to give me a platform, and so keeping it topically acceptable for everybody, I hope that sets some sort of example. ”

Movies are the biggest export in the world, the biggest American export. It influences people all over the world. ”

My mom was a teacher. In the 1960s and '70s, she taught history at two largely African American public high schools in Washington, D.C. - McKinley Tech and H.D. Woodson. Her example taught me the importance of equality for all Americans. ”

I am the leading federal judge in the country - the leader in the entire country of promoting women law clerks to get Supreme Court clerkships. ”

However much we might sympathize or agree with EPA's policy objectives, EPA may act only within the boundaries of its statutory authority. ”

It's fun leading this offense. I don't think we've hit our peak. ”

We live in a world in which data convey authority. But authority has a way of descending to certitude, and certitude begets hubris. ”

When you're a kid, you always think about your parents, and I still do. I try to lead with the same example that they set. ”

On the first album, we were trying to do a pop-punk album with a classical influence. We'd say 'pop-punk,' and people would say, 'No, you're like burlesque-cabaret-punk,' or, 'It's baroque-pop,' and we were like, 'That sounds way cooler.' ”

I was in college for organizational communication and politics because I was just fascinated by influence. I wondered how people have influence, not because I wanted to inspire the world - yet. ”