Power of Influence Quotes

There is a responsibility that goes with winning the Nobel Prize, and the responsibility is that if you have a forum, you should use it wisely.

As great as it is, 'Vogue' won't change a designer's business. But if an unknown brand is worn by a certain person in a tabloid, it will be the biggest designer within a week.

In his sensitive hands lay much of the world’s fate

Let no man imagine that he has no influence.

If I have a voice to shine light on things or draw attention or provoke, as an artist people look to - I should do that.

I'd say people recognize me, but having children recognize me is the best. It is a very special thing. Suddenly you feel like you have the power to make the children's dreams come true, and it's better than anything else.

In two months Joseph Kennedy had taken over my entire life, and I trusted him implicitly to make the most of it.

Any time you have a platform or any influence, it's really important to use and make the most of it.

Great artists are like loaded guns. They are dangerous in anybody's hands.

The great leader attracts to himself men of kindred character, drawing them towards him as the loadstone draws iron.

I always felt like, 'I hope Oprah teaches a class to everybody when they get super famous about how to use, responsibly, that blessing.'

There was something terribly enthralling in the exercise of influence. No other activity was like it. To project one's soul into some gracious form, and let it tarry there for a moment; to hear one's own intellectual views echoed back to one with all the added music of passion and youth; to convey one's temperament into another as though it were a subtle fluid or a strange perfume: there was a real joy in that - perhaps the most satisfying joy left to us in an age so limited and vulgar as our own, an age grossly carnal in its pleasures, and grossly common in its aims.

I feel like everybody, whether you have one follower or a million followers, has an opportunity to either positively or negatively affect people.

If I was 13 years old and Kurt Cobain tweeted me some advice or even just said hi, my whole world would be affected by that.