Edwin Hubbel Chapin Quotes

Everyone is influencing the people around them one way or another.

I cannot change others, but I can influence others... we can't change people, but we can and we do influence people, and we do it every single day.

Everyone is influenced by everybody but you bring it down home the way you feel it.

The influence of each human being on others in this life is a kind of immortality.

There are people in the world who have the power to change our values.

We cannot turn our back and say that violence in films or anything that we do doesn't have a sort of influence. It does.

I'm influenced a lot by my family. I have a big family.

I'm constantly being influenced by the soul that's directly in front of me.

Peer pressure is just that: pressure.

I want to inflict some change on people.

It seems natural to me that as a writer, you should have some kind of, you know, there should be some kind of projection that you actually have influenced people who are closest to you.

I feel like I'm changing pop culture.

This is more in regards to celebrities. What we've got to understand is that we are the influencers of the hip-hop culture, the black culture. We are the way out, you feel what I'm sayin'? As far as who we look to and where we get stuff from - hip-hop culture is influencing the world, really, but especially the black communities.

Can a person be inspirational? Does a person have global sensibility? That's the hardest thing to find.

It sounds vain, but I could probably make a difference for almost everyone I ever met if I chose to involve myself with them either professionally or personally.

We are always impacting the world...through our presence, energy, interactions - what kind of impact are we having?

Everyone has influence, for good or bad, upon others.

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

You can't influence people you refuse to associate with.

People tend to think that big things only happen to big people ... I think that is not true. The small decisions we make every day define who we are and define the world around us. ... But I bet to you there is a decision every day in your life where you affect somebody else.

We create in people through our actions and example. In this way people around us become reflections of our own behavioral patterns and internal energies.

You are who you go to lunch with! Break bread with cool and you will become more cool. Conversely: break bread with dull and well, you can figure it out.

The key to the 99 is the one. Or, put another way, the key to the group is the one individual. Think about the one, talk to the one, regard the one, serve the one. If you are sincere and constant, you will discover that gradually your influence with the many will be magnified.

..Our level of influence is not the same with everyone.

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.