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There was a writer in the '20s called Christopher Morley, who I remember a little bit of, who had some influence on me, but I couldn't tell you what it was.

There were influences in my life that were more important than journalism, such as comic strips and radio.

There would never have been a British Ballet without Diaghilev. He had a wonderful influence

The richness of an artist is the fusion of influences that have shaped his life and work.

The road to success may be, and generally is, obstructed by many influences which must be removed before the goal can be reached.

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.

The school has the function of coordinating within the disposition of each individual the diverse influences of the various social environments into which he enters.

The science only perpetuates the vicious cycle of cronyism, power-mongering, influence peddling, corruption, bureaucracy, all of that.

The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.

These elites, preferring to work in private, are rarely found posed for photographers, and their influence upon events has therefore to be deduced from what is known of the agencies they employ.

The stewardship of influence. What have you done with influence?

The superior artist is the one who knows how to be influenced.

The task of the strategist and leadership team is to reduce uncertainty in the areas that they can directly influence in order to pursue attractively difficult objectives.

The television industry claims they are only reflecting society with their programming and have no influence on behavior. If that is the case then why do businesses spend millions on TV ads that have no influence?

The theory, hypothesis, framework, or background knowledge held by an investigator can strongly influence what is observed.

The thing about influence is that any composer worth anything will give you the same names.

The things I write are combinations of all of the people that have been influences to me.

The things that concern us during the day are going to influence what we experience during the night.

The true end users of Facebook are the marketers who want to reach and influence us. They are Facebook's paying customers; we are the product. And we are its workers. The countless hours that we - and the young, particularly - spend on our profiles are the unpaid labor on which Facebook justifies its stock valuation.

The United States influences government and life everywhere else.

The way we metabolize our experience of time influences our biological clock.

The whole hope of human progress is suspended on the ever-growing influence of the Bible.

The wolf exerts a powerful influence on the human imagination. It takes your stare and turns it back on you

The word "influence" means the power to change or affect someone.

The world is filled with terrible things that can influence children, and movies have depicted them since time immemorial. Should every terrible thing warrant an R-rating?

The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence.

Those influences which really make and mar human happiness and greatness are beyond the reach of the law. The law can keep neighbors from trespassing, but it cannot put neighborly courtesy and good-will into their relations.

Those who are animated by hope can perform what would seem impossibilities to those who are under the depressing influence of fear.

Those who have had the most impact and influence throughout history and certainly the people who've had the most impact and influence on me personally have been basically entirely unaware of any such influence and made their chief concern their personal devotion and obedience, and the pleasure of God in the hidden things of their lives.

Those who give up on their dreams shouldn't influence you to give up on yours.

Though it is very easy to do valuations, eyeballs and brand prominence surveys, you should never allow any of them to influence the balance sheet.

Throw a stone into the stream and the ripples that propagate themselves are the beautiful type of all influence.

To be effective at selling ideas, at being a lobbyist, influencing other people, you have to be very sure of yourself.

To be surrounded by beautiful things has much influence upon the human creature; to make beautiful things has more.

to deny that music powerfully influences our thoughts and conduct is either ignorant or a deliberate lie. Anyone who listens to music has been moved by it. It's music, that's the point.

Tom [Collins] was a great influence on me. He really pushed me...constantly demanded rewrites. And, as much as I despised them, it was the best thing that could have happened because he just wouldn't settle for less. It had to be right, and it had to be good.

To the extent that we live in a postmodern world and it shapes the concrete circumstances of our daily lives, I would say postmodernism affects my work or influences my work.

To this day the Arab influence is evident in southern Italy, northern Africa and, above all, in Spain.

True as this is, it is also true that for one who won through there were many who gained nothing, and it was, and is, the sheer weight of numbers of those who failed of this that has made their influence on the modern life as pervasive and controlling as it is.

true influence over another comes not from a moments eloquence nor from any happily chosen word, but from the accumulation of a lifetime's thoughts stored up in the eyes...the secret smile in the eyes of a friend

True it is, as society is instituted, marriage becomes somewhat of a lottery, for all its votaries are either the victims of Cupid or cupidity; in either instance, they are under the blinding influence of passion, and consequently but little subject to the control of reason.

True leadership cannot be awarded, appointed, or assigned. It comes only from Influence.

Truly successful individuals create both immediate and long-lasting influence attracting others to them.

Trust is the conduit for influence; it's the medium through which ideas travel.

Ultimate influence is the ability to get the results you want from others while helping them feel genuinely good about themselves.

Very few worries can stand against the influence of a good long walk ... How many petty annoyances have I thus walked away!

Voroshilov was a striking figure, with a great deal of influence among the workers, so that the degree of influence of the committee on the workers and its success as regards recruitment depended primarily on him.

Vladimir Putin would like to have more influence in Ukraine. He would like to have Ukraine always knocked slightly off balance so that they don't know what he might do next. He would like to demonstrate that he has more power than the Ukrainians do. And so certainly by making a frozen conflict situation where Ukraine never really has a definitive sense of sovereignty over its own territory, that's in Putin's interest.

Vladimir Putin knows exactly what he wants from the relationship with USA. In return for good relations, he wants lifting of sanctions, ratification, approval of his wars in Ukraine and Syria, and his dream of dreams, an acknowledgment of his sphere of influence in Ukraine and the former Soviet Union.

We all have choices. (Astrid) No we don’t, princess. Only people with money and influence have choices. For the rest of us, basic necessity dictates what we have to do to survive. (Zarek)