Best 1875 quotes in «influence quotes» category

Iris Murdoch did influence my early novels very much, and influence is never entirely good.

I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body : they transmit movement to it.

Is he under the influence or something?

I should say that feminism gave me permission to deal with my own emotional life and put it up front in certain ways, or use film as a way to examine, at that time, my own heterosexual experience. Lives of Performers was the beginning of that kind of investigation. But also, the film was influenced by the aesthetics and structures of experimental film as that was taking place at the same time. Hollis Frampton was a big influence on me at that time.

Is it not obvious that the more complex an economy, the more certainly will governmental control of productive effort exert a retarding influence?

Is it in the UK's interests to leave the EU? It depends on your values. The answer can't be read off of GDP statistics under various scenarios or some measures of global influence.

I still credit Adrian Lester with being one of my biggest influences.

It costs a great deal of money to do a musical, and the more money involved, the more big business influences the artform.

I think that The Great Gatsby has had some influence on contemporary dressing. I'm seeing more boyish haircuts and drop-waist sheath dresses.

I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism.

I think part of what we do is there is a bit of dandy influence, always, or a little sprinkle of it. Not literal Savile Row dandy, but there's a bit of sartorial dandiness in everything that we do - every collection that we do.

I think that I am profoundly influenced by writers who have explored loss, and longing, and fear. Those influences have turned me into a thriller writer, essentially.

I think that one of the things that influences me most as a composer is to what extent I can deconstruct and reconstruct the material that I'm working with.

I think The Beatles are the lasting influence on me, even more so than Dylan.

I think the fact that I created something and had an enormous influence is indisputable.

I think the most dangerous influence for a young writer is to be treated with cynicism or discouragement.

I think a lot of things do influence me, but the influence mechanism is as such that these things dive into your brain and bury themselves into your subconscious and you're never quite sure where and how they're going to emerge. I don't think I really take direct influence.

I think one of my biggest influences is Bette Davis. I've seen almost every one of her films, and she's been very inspiring to me.

I think that cultural influence is very deep, it is not on the surface and this is true in every culture.

I think there are presences out there that we can't see or directly communicate with that have benevolent influence on us. Whether they're angels or something else, I'm not sure.

I think we'll always have newspapers, but they'll lose influence.

It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol for sale.

I think when you're a writer most of what you read influences you. The rhythms get into your head.

It is a maxim that no man was ever enslaved by influence while he was fit to be free.

It is Billie Holiday who was, and still remains, the greatest single musical influence on me.

I think with The Magicians, the Harry Potter and Narnia influences are obviously there.

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.

It is easy to see that the ego is that part of the id which has been modified by the direct influence of the external world.

... it is as true in morals as in physics that all force is imperishable; therefore the consequences of a human action never cease.

It is more important to influence people than to impress them.

It is natural that affluence should be followed by influence.

It is manifestly vital to the success of the anti-slavery cause, that the authority and influence of proslavery, especially of slaveholding, ministers should be destroyed.

It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.

It is our duty not to not only hold fast, but to hold forth the Word of life; not only to hold fast for our own benefit, but to hold it forth for the benefit of others, to hold it forth as the candlestick holds forth the candle, which makes it appear to advantage all around, or as the luminaries of the heavens, which shed their influences far and wide.

It is remarkable how great an influence our clothes have on our moral state.

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.

It is said that the propriety even of old Cato often yielded to the exciting influence of the grape.

It must be evident how multifarious and how mutually complicated are the considerations which the working of such an engine involve. There are frequently several distinct sets of effects going on simultaneously; all in a manner independent of each other, and yet to a greater or less degree exercising a mutual influence.

It is well known that you can only manage what you measure, and as this is the job of professional accountants, it means they have huge influence on companies' governance.

It's inevitable your environment will influence what you do

I try not to make any boundaries. I try to let all art influence me.

It seems fair to say that while the moral standards of the nineteenth century persisted almost unchanged into the twentieth, moral practices changed sharply, and that though the standards of the nineteenth century persisted the institutions that had sustained them and the sanctions that had enforced them lost influence and authority.

It's hard for me to show work while I'm writing, because other people's comments will influence what happens.

It's in vain to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present.

It's a huge responsibility to have influence and to steward it in a way that leads to God-honoring leadership.

It's frightful that people who are so ignorant should have so much influence.

It wasn't until I was in my teens that I started admiring writers as inspirations for my own work, and my earliest influences there were Stephen King, Marion Zimmer Bradley and Richard Adams.

It's still too early to say how my wife will influence my life. But I do already know that it's sometimes hard work living with her.

It's the biggest economic influence in a woman's life whether she can decide when and whether to have children or not.

It's very rare that someone gets the death penalty for charges of conspiracy, for his influence, for his Svengali-Rasputin act.