Influence famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I've always liked country music. It's a certain aspect of America that goes back to the British Isles and the influence is very native to America.
-- Robert Duvall -
When you raise your opinion of yourself and what you are capable of it has a decided influence on what you do.
-- Robert Greene -
Orwell has always been a huge influence on me.
-- Robert Harris -
The greatest influence you can have in any situation is to be the presence of love.
-- Robert Holden -
Nothing has existence unless you, I, or some living creature perceives it, and how it is perceived further influences that reality. Even time itself is not exempted from biocentrism.
-- Robert Lanza -
Influence is just persuasion in slow motion.
-- Robert McKee -
As the society has gotten larger and more complex, individuals have lost their ability to influence any of the institutions that affect their lives.
-- Robert Teeter -
The myth that the founding of American Republic was based on the philosophy of John Locke could only have been maintained, because the history of Leibniz's influence was suppressed.
-- Robert Trout -
We must not fail to recognise that television can be a hugely positive influence in children's lives, one of the greatest educators in contemporary society and an increasing influence on all the children followed in 'Child of Our Time.'
-- Robert Winston -
We can't any longer have the conventional understanding of genetics which everybody peddles because it is increasingly obvious that epigenetics - actually things which influence the genome's function - are much more important than we realised.
-- Robert Winston -
Im not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers.
-- Robert Wyatt -
The quality of what is said inevitably influences the way in which it is said, however inexperienced the writer.
-- Robertson Davies -
I really learned the power of the tube on Sesame Street and how it can influence a very young mind.
-- Ruth Buzzi -
Anything you read can influence your work, so I try to read good stuff.
-- S. E. Hinton -
You have to be very careful about what you say. More importantly, you have to be very careful about what you do. You never know how or when you influence people – especially children.
-- S. Truett Cathy -
Bad writers have influences. Good writers steal.
-- S.M. Stirling -
The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.
-- Salvador Dali -
No influence is so powerful as that of the mother.
-- Sarah Josepha Hale -
In the film industry, we tend to pick up where others have left off, and Id like to think the influences I picked up from Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, Sylvester Stallone and Jean-Claude Van Damme are visible in my work.
-- Scott Adkins -
I will absolutely say that Johnny Ramone was a huge influence on me. I'm a giant Ramones fan.
-- Scott Ian -
Each member of the band has varied influences, and the same diversity is reflected in our fanbase.
-- Scott Putesky -
As I've gotten older, I've found that I'm not afraid anymore to throw my influences into making a record.
-- Scott Weiland -
My body was braille for the creeping influences.
-- Seamus Heaney -
What you see determines how you interpret the world, which in turn influences what you expect of the world and how you expect the story of your life to unfold.
-- Sheena Iyengar -
We are here to influence the world rather than to be influenced by the world.
-- Sheri L. Dew -
There is one thing the power of God and the power of Satan have in common: Neither can influence us unless we allow them to.
-- Sheri L. Dew -
Religion is the biggest influence on the intellect and the decadence of a people.
-- Siddharth Katragadda -
The dream unites the grossest contradictions, permits impossibilities, sets aside the knowledge that influences us by day, and exposes us as ethically and morally obtuse.
-- Sigmund Freud -
Childhood didn't have a big influence on me, really - in fact I spent most of it plotting how to escape.
-- Simon Callow -
There are leaders and there are those who lead. Leaders hold a position of power or influence. Those who lead inspire us.
-- Simon Sinek -
It's not just for its influence on us, but to knowknow that we can play a part in it, to understand the influence that we have outside our own existence.
-- Siobhan Davies -
One who knows how to appreciate color relationships, the influence of one color with another, their contrasts and dissonances, is promised an infinite variety of images.
-- Sonia Delaunay -
I like the influence of the macabre, but I don't believe in ghosts.
-- Sophie Ellis Bextor -
Miles Davis is a major influence of mine in terms of the way that I am as a bandleader.
-- Stefon Harris -
If you're from a certain generation, you basically learn to read with 'Peanuts.' It's sort of the template for the modern strip. Its influence ceased to be noticed because it's in everything.
-- Stephan Pastis -
Dreams have as much influences as actions.
-- Stephane Mallarme -
Your power to choose your direction of your life allows you to reinvent yourself, to change your future, and to powerfully influence the rest of creation.
-- Stephen Covey -
The real beginning of influence comes as others sense you are being influenced by them - when they feel understood by you - that you have listened deeply and sincerely, and that you are open.
-- Stephen Covey -
We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why. Not until the future eats the present, anyway. We know when it's too late.
-- Stephen King -
Trust in your own beliefs or succumb to the influence of others'.
-- Steve Backley -
The significance and influence of just one BNP councillor is far in excess of the council powers such an elected figure can, in reality, command.
-- Steve Blake -
Everyone here has the sense that right now is one of those moments when we are influencing the future.
-- Steve Jobs -
Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you and you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use.
-- Steve Jobs -
Our best work is done, our greatest influence is exerted, when we are without thought of self.
-- Swami Vivekananda -
Race and temperament go for much in influencing opinion.
-- Sydney, Lady Morgan -
The influence of woman will ever be exercised directly in all good or evil. Give her, then, such light as she is capable of receiving.
-- Sydney, Lady Morgan -
There is a higher power, a higher influence, a God who rules and reigns and controls circumstances and situations that are beyond your area and realm of authority.
-- T. D. Jakes -
People exercise an unconscious selection in being influenced.
-- T. S. Eliot -
Seeing TVXQ's music and stage makes me feel touched, and they're a very good influence on us.
-- Taeyang -
The other writer who had a very important early influence on me when I was about 17 was C.S. Lewis.
-- Tanith Lee -
Elvis was a big influence to my music, but Loretta Lynn was, as well.
-- Tanya Tucker -
I am very interested in place, and the influences of place on characters.
-- Tea Obreht -
There is no protection against the kinds of influences that are loose in a society that tolerates pornography.
-- Ted Bundy -
Country music was the music I was brought up on. It's the music that's closest to my heart and the music that speaks to me the most, and it's always been a big influence on my own songwriting.
-- Teddy Thompson -
Religion is ... the most pernicious single influence in human society, without one redeeming feature.
-- Theodore Schroeder -
Nothing influences our ability to cope with the difficulties of our existence so much as the context in which we view them; the more contexts we can choose between, the less do the difficulties appear to be inevitable and insurmountable.
-- Theodore Zeldin -
A literary influence is never just a literary influence. It's also an influence in the way you see everything - in the way you feel your life.
-- Thom Gunn -
Byron owed the vast influence which he exercised over his contemporaries at least as much to his gloomy egotism as to the real power of his poetry.
-- Thomas B. Macaulay -
We must succumb to the general influence of the times. No man can be of the tenth century, if he would; be must be a man of the nineteenth century.
-- Thomas B. Macaulay -
The increasing influence of the Bible is marvelously great, penetrating everywhere. It carries with it a tremendous power of freedom and justice guided by a combined force of wisdom and goodness.
-- Thomas More -
It is a question of fact, whether the influence of motives be fixed by laws of nature, so that they shall always have the same effect in the same circumstances.
-- Thomas Reid -
Principles are like a seed in the ground; they must continually be visited with heavenly influences or else your life will be a barren field.
-- Thomas Traherne -
Nature is a big influence on my work. That's where the cosmic element comes in, an awareness of the relevance of what we do as a species, why we do it, and its implications.
-- Tim Lebbon -
The influences in my life were all kind of politically, socially implanted. And then there was Watergate.
-- Tobe Hooper -
I am passionate about God, about Jesus, and what His influences do to me.
-- TobyMac -
Bobby Cox had the biggest influence in my career and probably the second- or third-biggest influence in my life.
-- Tom Glavine -
With relationship comes access, and with intimacy comes influence.
-- Tommy Tenney -
The big influence on me was Robert Altman, who, especially in 'Nashville,' transformed my sense of dramatic structure and showed how you could handle overlapping stories.
-- Tony Kushner -
My influences were Peter Sellers and the great British character actors.
-- Tracey Ullman -
I object to the hypersexualization of all the superheroines. Most of them have been hypersexualized, but especially to Wonder Woman, because she is an icon. She is up there with Superman and Batman. And she is the one who is the big influence on women. Women who don't read comics still know who Wonder Woman is.
-- Trina Robbins -
If you can make it through the night, there's a brighter day.
-- Tupac Shakur -
What is said about men often has as much influence upon their lives, and especially upon their destinies, as what they do.
-- Victor Hugo -
I am not satisfied that Darwin proved his point or that his influence in scientific and public thinking has been beneficial ... the success of Darwinism was accomplished by a decline in scientific integrity.
-- W. R. Thompson -
Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives.
-- Walt Disney -
The character of the subject must influence the choice of the method of its representation.
-- Walter J. Phillips -
When Hegel later became a man of influence' he insisted that the Jews should be granted equal rights because civic rights belong to man because he is a man and not on account of his ethnic origins or his religion.
-- Walter Kaufmann -
When Loughner himself speaks and we find out his real influences are Spiderman, 'Gnome Chomsky,' Taylor Swift, and Dr. Bronner, then what?
-- Walter Kirn -
The life most of us live are lives we are forced to live by immediate needs, influences, and pressures.
-- Walter Mosley -
Colour is a power which directly influences the soul.
-- Wassily Kandinsky -
Generally speaking, color directly influences the soul.
-- Wassily Kandinsky -
Contractile movements arise, sometimes at the instigation of external stimuli but sometimes also in the absence of any apparent external influence.
-- Wilhelm Wundt -
Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.
-- William Ellery Channing -
Influence is to be measured, not by the extent of surface it covers, but by its kind.
-- William Ellery Channing -
The whole hope of human progress is suspended on the ever-growing influence of the Bible.
-- William H. Seward -
A belief in God is fundamental; upon it rest the influences that control life.
-- William Jennings Bryan -
I don't believe I am influencing anybody but myself.
-- Winona Ryder -
Music has always been transnational; people pick up whatever interests them, and certainly a lot of classical music has absorbed influences from all over the world.
-- Yo-Yo Ma -
When you wear a mask, it changes your outward appearance, but also has an influence on you, inside.
-- Yusuke Kishi -
Whether you are on the Right or the Left, everyone can agree that there are a lot of outside influences in American politics that are not good for the system. There's just too much money.
-- Zach Galifianakis -
The Israelis have a lot of influence with Congress, and in some cases they are able to buy influence.
-- Zbigniew Brzezinski -
I don't find much influence in opera. It was such a different part of me.
-- Zola Jesus -
My influences were mostly gospel. So I was playing my twisted Jewish equivalent of gospel music over his twisted equivalent of rock and roll music. And it was a very excellent marriage.
-- Al Kooper -
The influence is really all over the place. Detroit, definitely because of Motown and Stooges. When you come from a place like Detroit, you're really proud of what you have there.
-- Alex Winston -
Demons wait at crossroads attempting to influence our decisions.
-- April Smith -
In Holland, things were pretty stale for me. Even though there were a lot of good influences and a certain openness to music and art and literature, I just wanted to go somewhere less familiar - somewhere bigger.
-- Ari Marcopoulos -
The Russians will always find a pretext for their aggression. It was Putin who said in 2005 that the biggest geopolitical disaster of the last century was the collapse of the Soviet Union. Putin wants to bring Ukraine back into the Russian sphere of influence. That is why he tried everything in order to stop the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement.
-- Arseniy Yatsenyuk -
Being successful is not determined by the amount of money you make but by the amount of lives you affect and influence for the better.
-- Behdad Sami
