Best 1875 quotes in «influence quotes» category

In my view, photography and painting really share one history. The influences that work on one, work on the other.

In order to eliminate the negative influences, simply ignore them.

In order to become more influential with those who are resistant to our point of view, we must be willing to start with what is influencing them.

In order to have influence, you have to be influenced.

In our decrees, it is definitely proclaimed that religion is a question for the private individual; but whilst opportunists tended to see in these words the meaning that the state would adopt the policy of folded arms, the Marxian revolutionary recognizes the duty of the state to lead a most resolute struggle against religion by means of ideological influences on the proletarian masses.

In Psalm 72, Solomon prays for power and fame but he says the purpose of influence is to speak up for others and one is the immigrant. He doesn't delineate between legal and illegal.

INTENTION, n. The mind's sense of the prevalence of one set of influences over another set; an effect whose cause is the imminence, immediate or remote, of the performance of an involuntary act.

Intellectual life requires for its expansion and manifestation the influences and assimilation of the interests and affections of others.

In terms of my father, if you have 4 children that work in film, then there certainly was a happy, positive influence from him because none us became an accountant.

In the beginning [Hitler] was genial and pleasant. He would have extraordinary willpower and unheard-of influence on people.

I often say 'pursue excellence, ignore success.' Success is a by-product of excellence.

In the film industry, we tend to pick up where others have left off, and Id like to think the influences I picked up from Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, Sylvester Stallone and Jean-Claude Van Damme are visible in my work.

In the beginning you must subject yourself to the influence of nature. You must be able to walk firmly on the ground before you start walking on a tightrope.

I object to the hypersexualization of all the superheroines. Most of them have been hypersexualized, but especially to Wonder Woman, because she is an icon. She is up there with Superman and Batman. And she is the one who is the big influence on women. Women who don't read comics still know who Wonder Woman is.

I read very widely, both non-fiction and fiction, so I don't think there's a single writer who influences me.

I really do believe in the influence of your surroundings.

I really and definitely think that France has the capability to come forward. The EU should maintain their own position, without influence.

I really don't see any influence of my work on any artists. But I do think I've had an influence on drawings' being shown. I've had an influence on the economics of it.

I realized that influence was inextricably linked to impact — the more influence you had, the more impact you could create. . . . The ability to make things go viral felt like the closest that we could get to having a human superpower.

I realized that this story [Shelter] is all about family, family loss, and how it influences you day to day life.

I really learned the power of the tube on Sesame Street and how it can influence a very young mind.

I really like Woody Allen, I really like John Cassavetes, and I really like movies that are super-naturalistic. I studied film studies in college, but I slept through all the movies, and I love film but I don't have a lot to reference. And so I don't know what my influences are and I don't know where this came from at all.

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

Irish folk is probably the biggest influence musically that I've ever had. My mother's Irish. And when I was very young, both my brothers were very into traditional music, English and Irish. They were always playing music, so I was always brought up with it.

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?

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 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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