Best 67 quotes in «influential quotes» category

As the centuries pass, the evidence is accumulating that, measured by His effect on history, Jesus is the most influential life ever lived on this planet.

At the time it really was the social women, the society ladies. There were the cool girls, like Aerin Lauder - everyone loved to see what Aerin was wearing. Carolyn Bessette was very much in that time period. Calvin [Kleine] was very influential in the '90s.

Blade Runner was an incredibly influential movie, in terms of the way that it envisioned what the future was going to look like.

Bob Hope was an entertainment colossus, shrewd and influential well beyond show business. Richard Zoglin's biography captures it all--the public and private Hope.

Eddie Van Halen was probably the most influential.

Books can change your life. Some of the most influential people in our lives are characters we meet in books.

Certain punk bands were influential because I thought, If they can do that then I can .Hanging around those bands was how I started my first band - In Praise of Lemmings.

During times like these, the wise are influential.

Fair and unfair are among the most influential words in English and must be delicately used.

I am so credible and so influential and so relevant that I will change things.

Human kind has little or nothing to do with the recent temperature changes. We are not that influential

I am so honored to be named as one of Time's 100 most influential people.

I do not criticize people who take a public stand on human rights issues. I express my respect for them. But some people are more influential without a public confrontation.

In the past some of the most influential Jewish, Christian and Muslim theologians, such as Maimonides, Aquinas and Ibn Sina, made it clear that it was very difficult to speak about God, because when we confront the ultimate, we are at the end of what words or thoughts can do.

In a repressive society, a writer can be deeply influential, but in a society that's filled with glut and repetition and endless consumption, the act of terror may be the only meaningful act.

In my life the most influential people are people who are sort of brought to me, as opposed to people I seek out.

If Google doesn't know the answer, then it's not a question

If I started thinking too much about how influential I've been, then I'd be more of a turd than I already am.

I suppose my father was more influential in my starting to play the guitar.

Online media is increasingly influential in fashion.

It is a terrible thought, to contemplate that an immense number of mediocre thinkers are occupied with really influential matters.

It is now no mystery that some quite influential 'philosophers' were 'mentally' ill.

My favorite parable for living a positive and influential life is the Golden Rule: Do unto others what you would have them do unto you.

I was never really that aware of commercial things. The stuff that was really influential to me were bands like the Misfits or the Birthday Party, or things like that. If someone said, "Do you love Judas Priest?" - I never really even had a Judas Priest record. That's not what I grew up with. That wasn't really my scene, you know? That's why White Zombie never really fit. I still don't fit.

[Louis Brandeis] at the age of 57 decided to become the head of the American Zionist movement was more influential than anyone else in the 20th century in persuading Woodrow Wilson to recognize a Jewish homeland in Palestine.

Power leads to more power, no matter what your racket, and not only were they rich and influential but they were smart as hell, too.

Paul Bearer was very influential in the early stages of my career. He constantly hounded me and I just think he realized the potential that was there. He convinced me that I was in the right place and doing the right thing.

Passion is the gasoline of social media.

Sometimes the most influential thing we can do is listen.

Rather than a big figure, I guess you could say I'm more of an influential minority symbol.

Scholes is very influential for England at international level.

Shareholders are sort of like cats; they get herded around, and they follow the leader. With the exception of a few activist shareholders, there are a very rare number of big, important, influential shareholders that like to step up and say there's a problem here, especially when they're making money.

Public opinion can be influential, the media can be influential.

The human brain is a funny thing: it's very susceptible to tempo and melody. You put the right words to it, and it becomes very influential.

That was a time when I did love music, I couldn't get enough of what was going on. Maybe it was Nirvana that brought me back. I guess it was a comfort because something that sounded so right - and non-commercial - had become so influential, so immediately.

The Commonwealth is a mixture of developing and developed world, in which the developed countries were very influential and their policies hold sway most of the time.

The most influential of all the virtues are those which are the most in request for daily use. They wear the best, and last the longest.

The most influential time in my life musically was definitely those piano lessons.

Too often we elevate the inconsequential into the influential... by reacting without reflecting.

Troubadours have always been more important and influential than theologians and bishops

Asides your power, passion and poise, what glues the posters of your impacts on memorial walls is how you treat those you need and those who need you.

When I became tired of oil painting at one stage, I used collage and this proved to be influential in the design and composition of my later works.

Without hesitation, I place Freud among the heroes. He dispossessed the Jewish people of the greatest and most influential of all heroes-Moses.

You are the most influential person you will talk to all day.

Anyone who wants to be great and influential person should be ready to pay the highest price in order to develop their gifts and submit themselves to this gift

Be a source of influence to others

Be a history maker

Becoming more deeply connected with those you admire and love bolsters, in you, the traits you most admire in them. Recognize behaviors that most upset you so, like defensive driving, you see potential “crashes” sooner and avoid them.

To redeem the influential sphere of the government is to act based on the teaching received

Don't pay attention to people Who tell you can't do it at lenght. Trusting your own instincts Can lead to what's quintessential. Make their limitation be your strenght. You might as well contradict them And then reach your full potential.