We influence singing but never really songwriting.

What he says really has a broad influence, ... We're into servers. We're into storage. We like to see some type of upbeat comments on macroeconomic situation. This way all stocks can participate if the comments are good enough.

We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why.

I always sang in church always was in a gospel choir and directed choirs and always performed, but I never thought of it as a powerful thing.

External heat and cold had little influence on Scrooge. No warmth could warm, no wintry weather chill him. No wind that blew was bitterer than he, no falling snow was more intent upon its purpose, no pelting rain less open to entreaty.

He did it (listened) as the world's most charming and magnetic people do, always asking the right question at the right time, never fidgeting or taking his eyes from the speaker's face, making the other guy feel like the most knowledgeable, brilliant, and intellectually savvy person on the planet.