Best 1875 quotes in «influence quotes» category

Now that I'm a political pundit, I have the ability to influence people.

Obstruction, basically, is whether you corruptly influence, obstruct or impede the administration of justice. You tell a chief law enforcement officer get, you know, back off my friend - or I hope you back off my friend and then when he doesn't, you fire him, clearly, that isn't - that is - fits the behavior of obstruction. The question of whether or not you can prosecute the president is open.

Obviously, the person who had most influence on my career was Ken Thompson.

Of all the cankers of human happiness none corrodes with so silent, yet so baneful an influence, as indolence.

Of course my father was a great influence on me. He taught me how to read.

Of the influence of Mr. Mill's personal character on those who were his political associates, it is difficult to speak too warmly.

One always hopes that you're going to have influence and staying power, but you never know.

One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite.

One myth-perception is our continued emphasis of a Newtonian materialistic world, which by definition emphasizes the primacy of matter and somewhat ignores or minimizes the influence of the immaterial part of the universe.

One of Dickens' biggest influences was the growth of London as a Victorian city, and the extremes being created as it expanded.

One of my biggest musical influences is definitely Ella Fitzgerald as a vocalist.

One of my great influences was Don Knotts as Barney Fife.

One of my greatest influences is the Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini.

One of the biggest dishes in Sicily is couscous, and there's always been a North African influence on Italian culture, culinary culture there.

One of the expedients of party to acquire influence, within particular districts, is to misrepresent the opinions and aims of other districts.

One of their major initiatives was getting all officers on Facebook. So the question is, why are these people who are there to train the Afghans being pressured to be on Facebook? Again, it sounds benign until you realize that the military's concern isn't the Afghans, it's convincing the American people that we should be in Afghanistan.Soldiers can put up pictures and say "See how happy the Afghans are because of our presence here." It's a way to directly influence the American people using propaganda.

One truly affectionate soul in a family will evert a sweetening and harmonizing influence upon all its members.

One thing is clear, everyone, no matter what their professional or material status, no matter what their influence on various state structures, must obey the law.

[On George H.W. Bush:] By 1990 I had learned that I had to defer to him in conversation and not to stint the praise. If that was what was necessary to secure Britain's interests and influence, I had no hesitation in eating a little humble pie.

One person can make a difference. You don't have to be a big shot. You don't have to have a lot of influence. You just have to have faith in your power to change things.

One thing that is not to be underestimated is American cultures influence on the rest of the world.

[Only by] the good influence of our conduct may we bring salvation in human affairs; or like a fatal comet we may bring destruction in our train.

Only when you find the courage to say something to someone that might influence a change in your behavior, does that behavior change.

Our certainty that angels right now witness how we are walking through life should mightily influence the decisions we make. God is watching, and His angels are interested spectators too.

Oscar Peterson is the greatest living influence on jazz pianists today.

Our best work is done, our greatest influence is exerted, when we are without thought of self.

Our chief justices have probably had more profound and lasting influence on their times and on the direction of the nation than most presidents.

OUR history begins before we are born. We represent the hereditary influences of our race, and our ancestors virtually live in us.

Our greatest leaders are neither dreamers nor dictators: They are, like Jefferson, those who articulate national aspirations yet master the mechanics of influence and know when to depart from dogma.

..Our level of influence is not the same with everyone.

People such as Hunter S. Thompson and the Beats were a huge influence on me, not just in what they were saying, but how they said it.

Our own species evolved under the influence of group selection, as Darwin emphasized when he discussed the evolution of altruism.

Our relations with Iran have witnessed grave crises because of the policies of successive regimes in Iran which have considered Iraq and the Arab homeland, particularly the Arab Gulf area, as a sphere for domination and influence.

People of influence understand the incredible value of becoming a good listener.

Our success in influencing or elevating others is in proportion to their belief in our belief in them.

People exercise an unconscious selection in being influenced.

People of excellence will always be brought before people of influence.

People will follow you when you build the character to follow through.

Perceived self-efficacy influences the types of causal attributions people make for their performances

Perform anonymous service. Whenever we do good for others anonymously, our sense of intrinsic worth and self-respect increases. ... Selfless service has always been one of the most powerful methods of influence.

Photography and movies are a much bigger influence on me than music is itself.

Persuasive influences are better than any amount of moralizing.

Pictures you have taken have an influence on those that you are going to make. That's life!

Picasso is still influencing me. Of course, I haven't got that kind of energy, or skill.

Plato says a multitude can never philosophize and hence can never recognize the seriousness of philosophy or who really philosophizes. Attempting to influence the multitude results in forced prostitution.

Postman is a media analyst and his theory is that television doesn't influence our culture, but that it is our culture and the presidency and anything that relies on television.

Please repeat: influence is not popularity.

Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.

Power revealed is power sacrificed. The truly powerful exert their influence in ways unseen, unfelt. Some would say that a thing visible is a thing vulnerable.

Practically all great artists accept the influence of others. But... the artist with vision sees his material, chooses, changes, and by integrating what he has learned with his own experiences, finally molds something distinctly personnel.