--- title: On Time.com description: To visually unite our mix of TIME 100 cover subjects (including Misty Copeland, below, during rehearsal in New York City), photographer Sebastian Kim opted for... canonical: https://time.com/3824750/on-time-com/ author: TIME Staff article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-04-16T10:29:38.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T06:26:31.124Z article:section: World og:title: On Time.com og:description: To visually unite our mix of TIME 100 cover subjects (including Misty Copeland, below, during rehearsal in New York City), photographer Sebastian Kim opted for... og:url: https://time.com/3824750/on-time-com/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: On Time.com twitter:description: To visually unite our mix of TIME 100 cover subjects (including Misty Copeland, below, during rehearsal in New York City), photographer Sebastian Kim opted for... twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # On Time.com by [TIME Staff](/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Apr 16, 2015 10:29 AM CUT by [TIME Staff](/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Apr 16, 2015 10:29 AM CUT To visually unite our mix of TIME 100 cover subjects (including Misty Copeland, below, during rehearsal in New York City), photographer Sebastian Kim opted for minimalist, stripped-down portraits. For more on his process and to see additional images, visit time.com/sebastiankim. We interviewed TIME 100 honorees about their most important mentors and inspirations and what they hoped to accomplish with their own influence. Here, a preview of the videos available at time.com/time100mentors. JORGE RAMOS (far left) is inspired by the late journalist Oriana Fallaci ABBY WAMBACH (below left) cites her high school soccer coach DIANE VON FURSTENBERG (below) salutes her mother, a Holocaust survivor LEE DANIELS (left) credits a magazine editor and a former agent In advance of this special issue curated by TIME’s editors, we asked readers to weigh in on who they think should make our list of the world’s most influential people. Here are their top choices (showing the percentage of total votes received): 7% VLADIMIR PUTIN Russian President 6.9% CL South Korean rapper-singer 2.6% LADY GAGA Singer 1.9% RIHANNA Singer Please recycle this magazine and remove inserts or samples before recycling ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3824750/on-time-com/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3824750/on-time-com/"},"headline":"On Time.com","datePublished":"2015-04-16T10:29:38.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T06:26:31.124Z","description":"To visually unite our mix of TIME 100 cover subjects (including Misty Copeland, below, during rehearsal in New York City), photographer Sebastian Kim opted for...","url":"https://time.com/3824750/on-time-com/","keywords":[],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"articleSection":"World","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/world/","name":"World"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3824750/on-time-com/","name":"On Time.com"}}]}] ```