Quotes about "Leadership & Influence"

We must uphold the fighting of tigers and flies at the same time, resolutely investigating law-breaking cases of leading officials and also earnestly resolving the unhealthy tendencies and corruption problems which happen all around people. ”

Here at Stoke, I cannot exert too much influence, simply because there is a lack of quality around me. ”

I have a strange relationship with influences because mine are mostly literary or painters or poets, who I'll even quote. I don't do tributes to cinema. ”

The good news is that parents are the leading influence on kids' decision not to drink alcohol. ”

I was a jazz major in high school, in an all-jazz band. No matter what I do, it features my musical influences. ”

At 'The Daily Show,' we were satirizing a news program. You put somebody in a suit, you put 'em behind a desk, and they become an authority figure. ”

America was established not to create wealth but to realize a vision, to realize an ideal - to discover and maintain liberty among men. ”

Sometimes, when you're on the streets, certain music inspires you, and then you have a vision. But, at the end of the day, it's a synthesis of visions, so you have to think, as a director, of a scene, or how to deliver a line, or how do this visually. ”

In L.A. you live in a big city, but you feel like you're in the countryside. For example, I can be at home in the swimming pool and be five minutes from everything. ”

I have an idea of who I want to be, I have a vision of my own success. ”