Kalidou Koulibaly Quotes

I do think it's possible to change people's minds - it's one of my goals with my music.

You can't force your will on people. If you want them to act differently, you need to inspire them to change themselves

Propaganda has a negative connotation, which it partially deserves, but I think there is some propaganda that is very positive. I feel that if you can do something that gets people's attention, then maybe they'll go and find out more about the person.

Never doubt that one person can make a difference.

I have to have an emotional connection to what I am ultimately selling because it is emotion, whether you are selling religion, politics, even a breath mint.

Self-reform automatically brings about social reform.

It is stories - both real and fictional - that can captivate hearts, change minds and, in the most powerful examples, spur action.

If you want to edify, you have to entertain.

In order to move others, I must be moved.

You just keep shining a light and hoping people will start to pay attention.

It sounds so trite to say I make a difference, but I really feel, especially in a community college, I can make a difference.

If you can influence five people, fantastic. If you can influence five hundred people, fantastic. It's all important.

One of the things that I intend to devote a lot of time to in the coming years is continuing to try to move people's hearts and minds with humor, with stories, with anecdotes, with facts and information.

You can't make the people do what you want them to do. You've got to get everybody to see what you seein' or you gonna be a damn fool.

To charm, to strengthen, and to teach: these are the three great chords of might.

Leaders touch a heart before they ask for a hand.

To teach is to touch the heart and impel it to action.

The basis of leadership is the capacity of the leader to change the mindset, the framework of the other person.

There is only one way under high heaven to get anybody to do anything. Did you ever stop to think of that? Yes, just one way. And that is by making the other person want to do it.

I'm the crazy one who thinks that words reach people.

I never liked jazz music because jazz music doesn't resolve. But I was outside the Bagdad Theater in Portland one night when I saw a man playing the saxophone. I stood there for fifteen minutes, and he never opened his eyes. After that I liked jazz music. Sometimes you have to watch somebody love something before you can love it yourself. It is as if they are showing you the way. I used to not like God because God didn't resolve. But that was before any of this happened.

You cannot convert people beyond your own conversion.

Leadership isn't just legislation, that it's a matter of persuading people and giving them confidence, and bringing them together and setting a tone.

A man may well bring a horse to water but he cannot make him drink.