Best 1875 quotes in «influence quotes» category

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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 natural that affluence should be followed by influence.

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

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

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 our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.

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

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.

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

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 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 inevitable your environment will influence what you do

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

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 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 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 was not really the external influences that made me a singer. Music was within me. I was full of it.

I've always liked country music. It's a certain aspect of America that goes back to the British Isles and the influence is very native to America.

I use a combination of all my influences on my albums.

I was not going to surrender to the status quo and corporate insistence that ordinary people have no power and influence.

I've thought of doing many things in my life, under the influence of life, and I've never actually thought of straddling two carriages while they're moving.

I want to be a positive influence. I want to be someone who they want to call in and want here consistently, regardless of my role.

I was lucky. I had a lot of really good influences.

I was always interested in finding the elegance of each style and understanding why it influences so many people.

I wasn't allowed to listen to a lot of music growing up. It wasn't until I started to make my gospel record when I was around 14 or 15 that I started to be exposed to more outside influences.