Quotes about "Leadership & Influence"

I was lucky. I had a lot of really good influences. ”

My earliest influences were things I heard in my household. ”

My vocal influences are a lot of jazz singers: Billie Holiday, Julie London, they had this tenderness to their voice. ”

I am considering two things on a daily basis: what is right to do and what is wrong to do in my role as President of my people. According to my conscience, I am trying to abide by the right. My vision is peace. My vision is prosperity. ”

For example, computer defends well, but for humans its is harder to defend than attack, particularly with the modern time control. ”

Sometimes my influences are really on my sleeve. So I just make sure to wear a lot of sleeves. ”

I'm honored when young people say they've gone to school on slide guitar with my records. But people get their influence from my live shows and records and YouTube, not me personally. I walk around with a hat on. People don't know it's me. ”

It is still a surprise when people tell me that I've had an influence on them, particularly when it's someone I really respect. ”

If you try to do that in pop music - to play only rare show tunes, for example - people don't come. ”

Another example of the educational inequality is the current debate over publicly financed school vouchers which will provide educational opportunities to a privileged handful, but deprive public schools of desperately needed resources. ”