Best 67 quotes in «influential quotes» category

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

The really influential book is not that which converts ten millions of casual readers, but rather that which converts the very few who, at any given moment, succeed in seizing power.

WAKE UP NOW...You will become a history one day...Even if you are most important, most powerful, most wanted or most influential individual on the planet. THAT’S IT!

You will be influential and powerful in the field of your gift and talent

Would people be excited about your departure from the earth or they would wish you should come back again and again if possible?

What was it? What could it-- His last thought was surprise.

You ask about the effects of my work on others. If I may wax ironical, that is a masculine questions. Men always want to be terribly influential, but I see that as somewhat external. Do I imagine myself being influential? No. I want to understand. And if others understand - in the same sense that I have understood - that gives me a sense of satisfaction, like feeling at home.

Adults are naturally most conscious of directing the conduct of others when they are immediately aiming so to do. As a rule, they have such an aim consciously when they find themselves resisted; when others are doing things they do not wish them to do. But the more permanent and influential modes of control are those which operate from moment to moment continuously without such deliberate intention on our part.

A creative idea will be defined simply as one that is both novel and useful or influential in a particular social setting.

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.

A lot of the commercial expression of hip-hop leaves a lot to be desired - but then, there's a lot of whack gospel music, but I'm not leading a crusade against it. Of course, the vices of hip-hop are far more influential, I understand. But the good that hip-hop transmits, the power of the culture to rally the best of our protest, and uplift, and resistance, traditions, is often unfairly overlooked.

Any observations from the Moon or a sense of realising this or that about the greater meaning of things wasn't as influential for me as the experience of coming back and dealing with being a person who's been to the Moon.

As journalists, we need to find every avenue to distribute our work, and try to be so good that we become increasingly more influential than before.

[A.J. Muste] was very influenced - in - influential in the peace movement, in the civil rights movement.

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

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.

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.

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

Eddie Van Halen was probably the most influential.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

Online media is increasingly influential in fashion.

[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.

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

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.

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.

Passion is the gasoline of social media.

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.

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

Scholes is very influential for England at international level.

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

Sometimes the most influential thing we can do is listen.

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.

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.

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 time in my life musically was definitely those piano lessons.