Best 1875 quotes in «influence quotes» category

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

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

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

I really do believe in the influence of your surroundings.

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 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.

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.

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

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?

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?

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 still credit Adrian Lester with being one of my biggest influences.

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 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.

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

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

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

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 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 as true in morals as in physics that all force is imperishable; therefore the consequences of a human action never cease.

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

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 natural that affluence should be followed by influence.

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

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 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 said that the propriety even of old Cato often yielded to the exciting influence of the grape.

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.

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 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.

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