Influence famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Iris Murdoch did influence my early novels very much, and influence is never entirely good.
-- A. N. Wilson -
It is more important to influence people than to impress them.
-- Adrian Rogers -
"Murphys law of economic policy": Economists have the least influence on policy where they know the most and are most agreed; they have the most influence on policy where they know the least and disagree most vehemently.
-- Alan Blinder -
All the violence in videos and movies, you can't tell me that that wouldn't influence a disturbed person.
-- Alana Stewart -
I admit that thoughts influence the body.
-- Albert Einstein -
I deeply believe that a beautiful decor can have a beneficial influence on our lives.
-- Albert Hadley -
What the rest of us see only under the influence of mescalin, the artist is congenitally equipped to see all the time.
-- Aldous Huxley -
The market does not know you exist. You can do nothing to influence it. You can only control your behavior.
-- Alexander Elder -
Foreign influence is truly the Grecian horse to a republic. We cannot be too careful to exclude its influence.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
I like the south of Spain, notably for the Moorish influence and the weather.
-- Alexei Sayle -
I really and definitely think that France has the capability to come forward. The EU should maintain their own position, without influence.
-- Ali Larijani -
happiness is a duty, not only because of its effect upon us but because of its influence upon others.
-- Alice Hegan Rice -
The best scientific way to discover if one factor influences another is to do a controlled experiment.
-- Alison Gopnik -
Plato ... says a multitude can never philosophize and hence can never recognize the seriousness of philosophy or who really philosophizes. Attempting to influence the multitude results in forced prostitution.
-- Allan Bloom -
God leaves to our conscience the choice of the road we decide to follow, and the liberty of yielding to one or another of the opposing influences that act upon us.
-- Allan Kardec -
Trust is the conduit for influence; it's the medium through which ideas travel.
-- Amy Cuddy -
The authority of the Supreme Court must not be permitted to control the Congress or the Executive when acting in their legislative capacities, but to have only such influence as the force of their reasoning may deserve.
-- Andrew Jackson -
I almost feel like it’s an obligation to not further the status quo if you become somebody with influence and exposure.
-- Andrew Stanton -
Influence is like a savings account, the less you use it, the more you've got
-- Andrew Young -
My parents, especially my mother, were no influence on me whatsoever.
-- Andy Partridge -
Movies, as evidenced by a chorus of protesting and celebrating Americans, influence broader trends.
-- Anna Deavere Smith -
Anyone who doubts that caffeine is a drug should read some of the prose composed under its influence.
-- Anne Fadiman -
We are all cups, and our destiny is poured according to measures we cannot understand, cannot influence.
-- Anne Fortier -
Iago is the dominant trance state of our planet. It influences our relationships, our sexuality, our parenting, and our attempts to relax. It permeates corporate business, international politics, and our economic system.
-- Arjuna Ardagh -
As a coach you can influence the diet of your players. You can point out what is wrong.
-- Arsene Wenger -
True it is, as society is instituted, marriage becomes somewhat of a lottery, for all its votaries are either the victims of Cupid or cupidity; in either instance, they are under the blinding influence of passion, and consequently but little subject to the control of reason.
-- Arthur Frederick Saunders -
Daphne Guinness, who makes couture seem wearable, is an icon who influences what I wear.
-- Ashley Madekwe -
I still credit Adrian Lester with being one of my biggest influences.
-- Ashley Madekwe -
I hope to inspire people, influence people.
-- Ashley Tisdale -
Though it is very easy to do valuations, eyeballs and brand prominence surveys, you should never allow any of them to influence the balance sheet.
-- Ashwin Sanghi -
My influences have been what I call my four Bs - the primary one being the blues, then Borges, Baraka, and Bearden.
-- August Wilson -
It is natural that affluence should be followed by influence.
-- Augustus William Hare -
You are, in fact, a mashup of what you choose to let into your life. You are the sum of your influences. The German writer Goethe said, 'We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.'
-- Austin Kleon -
If we’re free from the burden of trying to be completely original, we can stop trying to make something out of nothing, and we can embrace influence instead of running from it,
-- Austin Kleon -
There are so many moments and works that influence us in what we do. Movies, music, TV and, most importantly, the profound everydayness of our lives.
-- Barbara Kruger -
The wolf exerts a powerful influence on the human imagination. It takes your stare and turns it back on you
-- Barry Lopez -
The big turning point, really, was the Beatles' influence on American folk music, and then Roger took it to the next step, and then along came the Lovin' Spoonful and everybody else.
-- Barry McGuire -
I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.
-- Beatrix Potter -
My personal influence in the Revolutionary Governing Council is such that the dictatorship of the proletariat is firmly established, since the masses are backing me.
-- Bela Kun -
My earliest influences were Coco Chanel and Yves Saint Laurent.
-- Bella Freud -
Doonesbury had the requisite and overwhelming influence in 1980, as it did on any college cartoonist who was paying attention, of course.
-- Berkeley Breathed -
Discipline strengthens the mind so that it becomes impervious to the corroding influence of fear.
-- Bernard Law Montgomery -
If the Church is not now as bad as the Soviet Government, that is due to the influence of those who attacked the Church
-- Bertrand Russell -
When it comes to influence, TRUST is often the missing piece.
-- Bob Burg -
Position yourself as a center of influence, the one who knows the movers and shakers. People will respond to that, and you'll soon become what you project.
-- Bob Burg -
We determine how much influence we'll have, when we decide how available we'll be.
-- Bob Goff -
If we pick recognition over influence we'll be known for all the wrong stuff.
-- Bob Goff -
You must strive to become much less susceptible to influences outside of yourself and much more inclined to trust the instincts and feelings that lie within you.
-- Bob Proctor -
My biggest musical influences are probably my parents.
-- Bobby McFerrin -
It is still a surprise when people tell me that I've had an influence on them, particularly when it's someone I really respect.
-- Bonnie Raitt -
Time control directly influences the quality of play.
-- Boris Spassky -
My earliest influences were things I heard in my household.
-- Boz Scaggs -
I was lucky. I had a lot of really good influences.
-- Brad Dourif -
I definitely am a huge lover of comedy, and it's only through doing so many comedies that I've realised how much of an influence they've been on me.
-- Bradley Cooper -
I think it's just a conglomerate of everybody's influences that comes out on the record, and live as well.
-- Brantley Gilbert -
My biggest mentor is myself because I've had to study, so that's been my biggest influence.
-- Brendan Rodgers -
Movies are the biggest export in the world, the biggest American export. It influences people all over the world.
-- Brett Ratner -
I grew up with a sister I was very close with and a mom who was a powerful influence on my life. I was always close with women.
-- Brian K. Vaughan -
Be selective about your external influences. Your multi-dimensional brain is influenced by everything you see, hear, read, smell, touch, feel or say.
-- Brian Tracy -
A guy called Arthur Brown... was a big influence of mine... and also Ian Anderson from Jethro Tull.
-- Bruce Dickinson -
I don't like to think about being an influence. It's embarrassing.
-- Bruce Nauman -
I consider every drummer that ever played before me an influence, in every way.
-- Buddy Rich -
When you say or do anything to please, get, keep, influence, or control anyone or anything, fear is the cause and pain is the result.
-- Byron Katie -
Education is only the most fully conscious of the channels whereby each generation influences the next.
-- C. S. Lewis -
I was really influenced by Joan Didion and Pauline Kael; they were both at the height of their influence when I was coming into my own as a reader.
-- Caitlin Flanagan -
You can expect no influence if you are not susceptible to influence.
-- Carl Jung -
Consciousness succumbs all too easily to unconscious influences, and these are often truer and wiser than our conscious thinking.
-- Carl Jung -
Children have in the past and continue to influence policy makers.
-- Carol Bellamy -
I write heavily under the influence of James Taylor.
-- Carole King -
Influence follows close upon the heels of character; and whatever we are, that we shall in the end be acknowledged to be.
-- Caroline Wells Healey Dall -
I listened to my record and hear lots of influences. And it's very rich... it's got a wide spectrum.
-- Chantal Kreviazuk -
In every religion there is an element of the supernatural, varying with the influence of pure reason over its devotees.
-- Charles Alexander Eastman -
That the state of knowledge in any country will exert a directive influence on the general system of instruction adopted in it, is a principle too obvious to require investigation.
-- Charles Babbage -
Every moment of your lives you are exerting a tremendous influence, that will tell on the immortal interests of souls around you. Are you asleep, while your conduct is exerting such an influence?
-- Charles Grandison Finney -
There can be moments in your life where you may feel attracted to someone depending on circumstance, depending on the person of one gender or another, and sometimes where that is less of an influence in your life.
-- Charles M. Blow -
Experience has shown that the trade of the East is the key to national wealth and influence.
-- Chester A. Arthur -
Socialism and SF are the two most fundamental influences in my life.
-- China Mieville -
The more we ignore our emotions, the more likely they are to wield a powerful influence over us.
-- Chip Conley -
One always hopes that you're going to have influence and staying power, but you never know.
-- Chris Frantz -
It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
-- Christian Nestell Bovee -
We control fifty percent of a relationship. We influence one hundred percent of it.
-- Christopher Marlowe -
You stars that reigned at my nativity, whose influence hath allotted death and hell.
-- Christopher Marlowe -
We've always had a lot of different influences and we've always liked catchy music from the Beatles to Cheap Trick to Elvis Costello.
-- Chuck Comeau -
The mental never influences the physical. It is always the physical that modifies the mental, and when we think that the mind is diseased, it is always an illusion.
-- Claude Bernard -
It's not the money. It's not the fame. It's the influence.
-- Clay Aiken -
It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people's lives.
-- Clint Eastwood -
If a man be under the influence of anger his conduct will not be correct.
-- Confucius -
People such as Hunter S. Thompson and the Beats were a huge influence on me, not just in what they were saying, but how they said it.
-- Corey Taylor -
That there is a Devil, is a thing doubted by none but such as are under the influences of the Devil.
-- Cotton Mather -
Honor, publicly, results in influence, privately.
-- Craig Groeschel -
Our immediate influence in b-boying was James Brown, point blank.
-- Crazy Legs -
A mother can exert an influence unequaled by any other person in any other relationship.
-- D. Todd Christofferson -
Enthusiasm is the greatest asset you can possess, for it can take you further than money, power or influence.
-- Dada Vaswani -
But I'm more interested in why people are frightened by Jaws and why Jaws was such a hit than saying Spielberg's my main influence.
-- Damien Hirst -
The people you surround yourself with influence your behaviors, so choose friends who have healthy habits.
-- Dan Buettner
