Best 1875 quotes in «influence quotes» category

In Britain I'm sometimes regarded as a suspiciously Europeanized writer, who has this rather dubious French influence.

I never thought I'd be a good influence on anybody with anything I did or said or sang.

Indeed the influence of music on the development of religion is a subject which would repay a sympathetic study.

I never had the influence of any other singer in my music, so I sounded like myself all the time.

I never went to church a day in my life. The dominant religion (influence) in my family was my grandfather who was a Scientologist.

I never wrote music or arranged songs or lyrics when I was under the influence of anything but coffee. That's not gone away.

In every religion there is an element of the supernatural, varying with the influence of pure reason over its devotees.

Influence comes out of the work that you've done and the things you've stood for. Influence and power shouldn't be given to just anybody who wants them.

Influence is a matter of selection - both acceptance and rejection.

Influence is providing attention and value to others.

Influence must ever be in proportion to property; and it is right it should.

Influence others positively by being a teacher, coach, counselor, or mentor.

Influence is just persuasion in slow motion.

Influence is the single most important skill you can master in your lifetime.

Influencers influence people and the people who they influence.

Influence follows close upon the heels of character; and whatever we are, that we shall in the end be acknowledged to be.

influence which is given on the side of money is usually against truth.

In Holland, things were pretty stale for me. Even though there were a lot of good influences and a certain openness to music and art and literature, I just wanted to go somewhere less familiar - somewhere bigger.

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

In exchange for power, influence, command and a place in history, a president gives up the bulk of his privacy.

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 every society where property exists there will ever be a struggle between rich and poor. Mixed in one assembly, equal laws can never be expected; they will either be made by the member to plunder the few who are rich, or by the influence to fleece the many who are poor.

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 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.

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

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.

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 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 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.

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

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

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 do believe in the influence of your surroundings.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.