Nuseir Yassin Quotes

I wanted to write about how people's beliefs shift.

How success changes the opinion of men!

Did people's attitudes towards me change after I appeared on TV? Yeah, definitely. During my career I've had some flak - particularly doing television.

One has a right to judge a man by the effect he has over his friends.

It's not leadership by position that allows people to succeed; it's the capacity to influence the thoughts, the feelings, the emotions, and the actions of other human beings.

There are a lot of different things that are spinning and connecting when your family sees what you do.

Humor is how you change people's opinions, and if you can make someone laugh, they'll listen, even if they hate you.

After I am dead I would like people to say: 'Beuys understood the historical situation. He altered the course of events'. I hope in the right direction.

Your take on things is what is either going to make you somebody people talk about or no.

I hope I'm better looking than Yoda, but - I'm really interested in people who have something to say, a change they want to make and can't figure out why they can't make it spread.

You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.

Religion is a form of nourishment. It is difficult to appreciate the flavor and food-value of something one has never eaten.

The StarTalks - while kids can watch them, they're actually targeted at adults. Because adults outnumber kids five to one, and adults vote, and adults wield resources, and adults are heads of agencies. So if we're going to affect policy, or affect attitudes, for me, the adults have always been the target population.

... Societies aren t made of sticks and stones, but of men whose individual characters, by turning the scale one way or another, determine the direction of the whole.

I think a high school girl hitchhiking is stupid. It was dangerous then and it's dangerous now.

People change their habits. I know Americans who don't go to Paris because they think it is too dangerous.

Gee, I never thought I had an effect on people until I was in Korea.

By looking upon themselves as human beings, their whiteness to them isn't the yardstick of perfection or honor or anything else. And, therefore, this creates within them an attitude that is different from the attitude of the white that you meet here in America, and it was in Mecca that I realized that white is actually an attitude more so than it's a color.

Your voice, amplified to the degree where it reaches from one end of the country to the other, does not confer upon you greater wisdom than when your voice reached only from one end of the bar to the other.

I don't think of myself as a very famous person, but the modicum of celebrity that I've had has not been a positive experience for me at all.

Plus, according to my mother, memories change like people do, especially if there's enough alcohol involved-Aphrodite

Lots of women tell me I'm their idol.

By the time I came to do the final ones [Harry Potter's film], I was working on something that was massively successful. There was a huge difference in indulgence and all sorts of stuff. A very big difference in peoples' attitudes. They were very pleased with themselves. In human terms, it was quite interesting to see the difference.

In Western Europe, Turkey is regarded as uncivilized, so they can't come in into the European Union until they're civilized. I think it's the other way around. If you could achieve the level of civilization of, say, Turkish intelectuals, it would be quite an achievement.