Oh, I will always be honest with my music. The records are black boxes for me. Like if you want to know who I am, my views, my perspective, things I love, things I hate, my convictions, my anthems. I’ve never let people’s opinions affect the way I write.
I think we should all have a responsibility not to affect other people in a negative way.
I don’t write songs that don’t affect me on some level, because I figure if I am not moved by it, if its not something that I have a longing to celebrate or to be reminded of, if it doesn’t affect me, then how can I possibly think it is going to affect somebody else. My touchstone is write something that matters.
However you can affect somebody positively is what you should aspire to do.
The Internet is emblematic of an era in which what happens in Southeast Asia or southern Africa – from democratic advances to deforestation to the fight against aids – can affect Americans. As has been observed about water pollution, we all live downstream now.
My point is that perceptual bias can affect nut jobs and scientists alike. If we hold too rigidly to what we think we know, we ignore or avoid evidence of anything that might change our mind.
A song has to take on character, shape, body and influence people to an extent that they use it for their own devices. It must affect them not just as a song, but as a lifestyle.
I don’t talk about how old I am because sometimes it can affect parts that you get in Hollywood. I don’t believe that it’s a necessary element. I feel that I’m a character, and I’m an actor. People focusing on my age instead of the role I’m playing can be a hindrance.
At times, you are mentally but not physically prepared; at times, you are physically but not mentally prepared. I would be lying if I said it doesn’t affect your performance. But the sooner you get over it, the better. So you discipline yourself. That is why fitness counts.
Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst.
How do you make RoboCop? How do you slowly bring a guy to be a robot? How do you actually take humanity out of someone and how do you program a brain, so to speak, and how does that affect an individual?
Part of our obligation is to ensure that policymakers are provided with the fullest possible picture of any matters that might affect national security.
I think it is very important to not be too much on social media. You have a lot of positive comments but also negative ones, and at the end of the day, that shouldn’t affect you, but it is much more important not to read it so you just don’t know.
Don’t let negativity affect your vision. A lot of people have said harsh things, but I don’t let it affect me. If anything it gives me more enthusiasm and pushes me to do better in my career so I can prove them wrong.
Why we give power to others that they can affect us so much?
I had some trepidation about working with someone else, especially a family member. You don’t want work to affect your personal relationship.
Essentially, if you are surrounded by those who ‘outrank’ you, it is likely to affect your identity in insidious ways.
Misconception Number 1, the public always thought, ‘Reggie has a massive ego; he’s narcissistic, he’s cocky, he needs everyone to look at him all the time,’ because that’s what the media told them. Wrong. I could handle the attention. I didn’t let the attention affect my performance. But I never needed the attention.
Whenever people in Washington complain about spending cuts, they mean spending cuts that would affect defense contractors. They want to massively increase spending cuts everywhere else in the budget.
Unlike the interference of ordinary interest, power, or prejudice, which touches philosophy only at its outskirts and becomes at most a matter for philosophical tactics, the claim of revelation to the highest truth touches philosophy at its core and must affect its whole strategy.
Crippling student loan debt doesn’t just affect those who took out loans to get an education. It harms all of us because we can’t have a healthy economy without a strong middle class to stimulate it.
If you have a personality predisposed to liberalism, you might gravitate more to the artsy crowd or the anti-establishment crowd. And then those peers will affect you, and they will give you values, and you will copy them.
I’ve had so many experiences with film or musicals or books where I just walk away changed in some way. One of the things that makes me want to be a writer is to pour my heart into something and hope that I can affect someone in that same way.
You’re not a product of your nature. That is your genetic makeup or your nurture, the things that have happened to you. Of course those things affect you powerfully, but they do not determine you.
For me, you’ve got to start from within. The things you eat directly affect the way you feel and the way you move.
Microsoft, Disney, Ford, Facebook, and a hundreds and thousands of other companies that affect us daily all began life as baby companies, aka start-ups.
Issues like immigration, police brutality, and other onerous laws put in place by local and state governments are prime avenues for active clergy to work with their parishioners on the issues that affect their daily lives.
Music is a very sensitive thing. We get musically attached to a project and it has the power to affect your mood.
Imperfect substitutability of assets implies that changes in the supplies of various assets available to private investors may affect the prices and yields of those assets.
I’m a linguist. I study how people talk to each other and how the ways we talk affect our relationships.
Families interest me – I’m part of one; most of us come from one. And I’m curious about the choices made in life, how they affect things, and how those choices happen.
It’s a wonderful thing to see ‘Wonder Woman’ directed by a woman. That did have an affect on the character, the , and the nuances of that film. That’s the same thing my wife, Mara Brock Akil, and I are doing taking on ‘Black Lightning.’
I’m going to continue to try to strike a balance, because I really, really do love doing stand-up, and I don’t see why it should affect the acting.
There wasn’t a bigger issue in my campaign than Obamacare. Everyone I talk to, every business, a lot of family farmers, are concerned about how this will affect them.
Money affects everything, from who I’m with to what label I’m on, so everything I do now is about protecting it. But I didn’t understand how powerfully that would affect my home life.
Before 1915, space and time were thought of as a fixed arena in which events took place, but which was not affected by what happened in it. Space and time are now dynamic quantities… space and time not only affect but are also affected by everything that happens in the universe.
There is little evidence that other animals judge the appropriateness of actions that do not directly affect themselves.
As a sociolinguist, I want to know how cultural differences affect the ways people talk and listen. My research method, inspired by the work of Robin Lakoff and John Gumperz of the University of California at Berkeley, is sociolinguistic microanalysis. I tape-record and transcribe naturally occurring conversations.
Sexual harassment can really affect you for a long time, and I want more women to come forward.
You don’t have to say something directly to affect someone. You can make a piece of music without words that can capture a feeling of tragedy or struggle or anger or triumph. It’s the translation of the human experience into another form.
There were times when there were parts that I was sure I got and then I didn’t, and I did get upset. But at this point, it doesn’t affect me in the least because I know how the business works.
You can have meaning, accomplishment, engagement and good relationships, even if you are dull on the positive affect side.
ALS does not affect cognitive process. Stephen Hawking, one of smartest people on the planet, has ALS. It rarely affects the eyes. It doesn’t affect senses like hearing, taste and touch.
The embargo doesn’t affect the United States, not even minimally; all of Cuba’s economy is smaller than that of Miami-Dade County, and the ones who suffer the most are Cubans. If you talk to them in the street, they’re the ones most interested in the opening of a free market in their country.
Garbage time is that time at the end of the game when the points don’t really matter, and nothing you do can really affect the overall outcome, but the rookies usually get a chance to play on the big stage.
When you have the ability to affect other people and be somebody that somebody wants to emulate, care enough to help somebody else for their benefit, that’s what makes you a good teammate, and that’s what everybody’s looking for.
Climate change might be disastrous, but does that mean we want carbon taxes that raise the price of a gallon of heating oil to $10? And how exactly will those taxes affect economic growth?
Who ever knows what will happen with the economy, and will it affect the Internet? There’s so much pouring into the Internet; I would doubt it, but I’m not the greatest predictor. But more than any media sector, I think the Internet will hold up.
Society puts so much emphasis on outer appearance, but being confident in yourself and not letting others’ opinions affect you is pretty amazing.
