“ Ballot papers do not define leaders. Leadership is defined by conviction, vision, passion and inspiration. Israelmore Ayivor
“ Authority confined in you does not make you a leader. It is the authority created by you that makes you influence people with your purpose. Israelmore Ayivor
“ The ambiance of every environment in a country is the value system of the given nation. It is that culture that influences how citizens of a nation react, respond and behave among themselves in regard… Sunday Adelaja
“ Everyone who is a comedian or an actor or a musician have many people who influenced them. They in turn influence others. It is a great thing that is handed down. We need to know our history because o… Johnny Corn
“ I've been very influenced by folklore, fairy tales, and folk ballads, so I love all the classic works based on these things -- like 's 19th century fairy stories, the fairy poetry of , and 's splendid… Terri Windling
“ Having to amuse myself during those earlier years, I read voraciously and widely. Mythic matter and folklore made up much of that reading—retellings of the old stories (), anecdotal collections and hi… Charles de Lint
“ Though [Marco] Polo himself states frankly that he has never visited Japan -- and thus that what he has to say about it is second-hand and perhaps inaccurate -- the notion of the mysterious island kin… Graham Hancock
“ When I started to draw, most of my influences were from other painters and illustrators, so I was drawing landscape at second hand, really. The trees were Rackham trees, or trees that I had seen in pa… Alan Lee
“ The religious superstitions of women perpetuate their bondage more than all other adverse influences. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
“ The knowledge of God that a person has, influences not only his own life, but also the lives of his children. Sunday Adelaja
“ For there is no creature whose inward being is so strong that it is not greatly determined by what lies outside it. George Eliot
“ Who do you want to surround yourself with? People who can pull you up to their level of greatness? Or people who will happily pull you down to theirs? Dan Pearce
“ He knows that if his father had been a different man, or his mother another women, he would have been the same. He would have lived all his years the same way. They played no part. Any combination wou… R.A.Lucas
“ I'm generally quite happy until someone tells me I'm not. I don't see how they know I'm not, but suddenly I feel less happy. Richelle E. Goodrich
“ The sort of people that we become is, in large part, determined by the voices that we choose to listen to. Truly, we do not have a choice of listening versus not listening. We all obey certain voices,… Adam McHugh
“ Evil influence is like a nicotine patch, you cannot help but absorb what sticks to you. E.A. Bucchianeri
