Best 1875 quotes in «influence quotes» category

The arguments for purity of life fail of their due influence, not because they have been considered and confuted, but because they have been passed over without consideration.

The arts are very alive in Ireland, so that had its influence on me. But I consider myself European, really.

The Beatles had an influence on everybody. You have to realize what an incredible explosion the Beatles were.

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.

The biggest musical influence on me was my mum. We were both enraptured by music.

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.

The Central Bank should take into account other things as well: the stability of the bank system in the country, the increase or decrease of money supply in the economy, its influence on inflation.

The choice of a mate is crucial because no one has a greater influence on our spiritual lives.

The contraction of theological influence has been at once the best measure, and the essential condition of intellectual advance.

The best scientific way to discover if one factor influences another is to do a controlled experiment.

The blossom cannot tell what becomes of its odor, and no person can tell what becomes of his or her influence and example.

The cardinal virtue of a teacher [is] to protect the pupil from his own influence.

The character of the subject must influence the choice of the method of its representation.

The congregation that I was raised in was one that sang and a non-instrumental fashion. It was all a cappella singing, and so that had a major influence on me.

The cybernetics phase of cognitive science produced an amazing array of concrete results, in addition to its long-term (often underground) influence

The days of the Cross are counted. We must deliver the German nation from the pernicious influence of Christianity.

The core of the concept of a bribe is an inducement improperly influencing the performance of a public function meant to be gratuitously exercised.

The Egyptian tomb was the outcome of the Mesopotamian influence and followed from the religious crisis the country had undergone.

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.

The everyday choices I make regarding money will influence the very coarse of eternity.

The faith that has not a sanctifying influence on the character is no better than the faith of devils.

The field is the sole influence of the particle.

The forbidden things were a great influence on my life. I was forbidden from reading A Catcher in the Rye.

The general public are not even aware of major decisions that will determine their fate, hence are in no position to influence them

The guitar influence that affected my songwriting came from the New Wave of British Heavy Metal.

The head of dullness, unlike the tail of the torpedo, loses nothing of the benumbing and lethargizing influence by reiterated discharges.

The influence of blogging is overall a very positive force in the media.

The influence of one's parents is powerful and permanent.

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.

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.

THE INDUSTRIAL SYSTEM requires that prices be under effective control. And it seeks the greatest possible influence over what buyers take at the established prices.

The effectiveness of your work will never rise above your ability to lead and influence others.

The fact that Stravinsky used the classics as a major influence is obvious. What is interesting is how he used them, how he turned Bach into Stravinsky.

The FBI with their heavy influence on the judiciary system has successfully blocked me on every turn.

The free market economy is supposed to be the only path leading to the happiness of humanity by promoting wealth and prosperity, power and influence of nations.

The good and the bad mix themselves so thoroughly in our thoughts, even in our aspirations, that we must look for excellence rather in overcoming evil than in freeing ourselves from its influence.

The greatest influence for good comes from those quiet folks who make morals, not moralizing, their vocation.

The greatest influence you can have in any situation is to be the presence of love.

The growing influence of women is the one reassuring thing in our political life.

The influence of a science adviser is only as good as ears open to that science advice.

The influence of coffee in stimulating the genital organs is notorious.

The influence of mankind on climate is trivially true and numerically insignificant.

...the influence of the factory upon the physiological and mental state of the workers has been completely neglected.

The interests of the United States are better served by demanding reform and seeing that reform takes place than by removing our influence from the U.N.

The jet stream is the controlling influence over the world's weather systems.

The influence of Paris, for instance, is now minimal. Yet a lot is written about Paris fashion.

The egalitarian doctrine is manifestly contrary to all the facts established by biology and by history. Only fanatical partisans of this theory can contend that what distinguishes the genius from the dullard is entirely the effect of postnatal influences.

The marriage bed is the most degenerative influence in the social order.

The length and breath of our influence on others are directly related to the depth of our concern for them.

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.