Best 1875 quotes in «influence quotes» category

So much of what I create has been due to the influence of Miles Davis and Donald Byrd, and so many of those that have passed on. Their music, their legacy lives on with the rest of us because we are so highly influenced by their experience and what they have given us.

Sound conviction should influence us rather than public opinion.

Spend the rest of your life doing what God prepared you to do.

Spontaneously to God should turn the soul, Like the magnetic needle to the pole; But what were that intrinsic virtue worth, Suppose some fellow, with more zeal than knowledge, Fresh from St. Andrew's College, Should nail the conscious needle to the north?

Spiritual influence never coincided with material affluence.

Strange is the influence of Marx on character.

Stuart Pearce will be a massive influence but we also need ten others to be massive influences

Surround yourself with positive people and positive influences.

[Ted Denson] is sort of a reluctant leader. He didn't try to flex his influence. He's just eminently followable.

Take advantage of this great opportunity in your life to live it well, to be good, to have good works, and to influence other people for good.

T-Bone Walker was a big influence on just about every guitar player around.

Take Google - I can use it, you can use it, anyone else can use it, but we all know its designed so that private power can influence significantly how you access it.

Television and comic books are, and continue to be, probably the biggest influence in my life. It's the biggest influence on everybody's life.

That's the trouble with trying to influence an undecided voter. First you have to find one

The ability to understand people is one of the greatest assets anyone can ever have.

That the state of knowledge in any country will exert a directive influence on the general system of instruction adopted in it, is a principle too obvious to require investigation.

The '90s period I just miss because it was such a great time and the music was just so electric. Everybody just had to bring their A-game back then because everybody that was, you know, a big influence...they were on the charts. I bring that era with me everywhere I go. I care about every word I sing. I care about every move I make on stage. I care about the fans. I bring that with me to the present time. And then, when you're timeless, you can work in any time.

The act of observing a quantum event probabalistically influences its outcome.

The actor's relationship to the crew is really a big dynamic that influences everything. When actors are assholes, it becomes problematic. When actors are great and sensitive and prepared, it makes a huge difference.

The ability to connect and communicate is one of the most powerful, and you cannot find anyone who has been truly successful in life that doesn't have that ability because you've got to motivate, and you've got to -frankly, you have to influence.

The aim is to influence customers to use your product on their own, again and again without relying on overt calls to action such as ads or promotions.

The Americans have a very active presence and policy in every single part of the world and if we broke with them, we would lose any possibility of influencing them. They would go in for global unilateralism, and the world would be a more dangerous place.

[The American position at the UN is] essentially impotent, without influence, heavily outvoted, and isolated.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The field is the sole influence of the particle.

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

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

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.