Best 1875 quotes in «influence quotes» category

Byron owed the vast influence which he exercised over his contemporaries at least as much to his gloomy egotism as to the real power of his poetry.

By thinking and acting affirmatively in this minute, you will influence the hour, the day, and in time, your entire life.

Can you imagine a writer in England influencing? Absolutely not. And in France? It used to be, but no more-absolutely not. France used to, at least, have writers as diplomats, but not any more.

Certainly my parents were a huge influence. They always expected the most out of all of us. And expected us to do our very best. I'm thankful to them for allowing me to do what I wanted to do.

Certain unique books seem to be without forerunners or successors as far as their authors are concerned. Even though they may profoundly influence the work of other writers, for their creator they're complete, not leading anywhere.

Charisma is the ability to influence without logic.

Childhood didn't have a big influence on me, really - in fact I spent most of it plotting how to escape.

Children are more influenced by sermons you act than by sermons you preach.

Children have in the past and continue to influence policy makers.

China is very important. The future growth of China, China's influence is bound to rise.

China is in its own category - too big to ignore, too repressive to embrace, difficult to influence, and very, very proud.

Churches must extend their influence beyond the lives of church members to impact the broader community that they serve.

Colour is a power which directly influences the soul.

Concord River is remarkable for the gentleness of its current, which is scarcely perceptible, and some have referred to its influence the proverbial moderation of the inhabitants of Concord, as exhibited in the Revolution, and on later occasions.

Contrast increases the splendor of beauty, but it disturbs its influence; it adds to its attractiveness, but diminishes its power.

Consciousness succumbs all too easily to unconscious influences, and these are often truer and wiser than our conscious thinking.

Contractile movements arise, sometimes at the instigation of external stimuli but sometimes also in the absence of any apparent external influence.

Court-virtues bear, like gems, the highest rate, Born where Heav'n influence scarce can penetrate. In life's low vale, the soil the virtues like, They please as beauties, here as wonders strike.

Country music was the music I was brought up on. It's the music that's closest to my heart and the music that speaks to me the most, and it's always been a big influence on my own songwriting.

David Jacobs is a great influence on my life, has taught me so much about so many things.

Daphne Guinness, who makes couture seem wearable, is an icon who influences what I wear.

C.S. Lewis had a big influence on me in this spiritual realm - this sort of sense of longing. A longing for a knowledge that is just outside of our reach, a knowledge for a spiritual connection.

David Bowie is such a big influence to me. Everything about him as a person is intriguing to me.

Diminish the influence of fate

Difficulties seldom defeat people; lack of faith in themselves usually does it.

Death is not regarded as a natural affair by primitive man. Death is believed to be due to the intervention of some malevolent or at least not well disposed power. Normally it should not take place. So we have all through history crude explanations of death, as e.g., the influence of the serpent, the devil, sin.

Demons wait at crossroads attempting to influence our decisions.

Direct cinema is about simulating a reality in which you're not having the overwhelming influence that you really are having.

Disco is a major influence in the world of fashion.

Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world.

Doolittle was a major influence on the Seattle grunge scene, which emerged in the early 1990s.

Do not seek so anxiously to be developed, to subject yourself to many influences to be played on; it is all dissipation. Humility like darkness reveals the heavenly lights.

Each and every one of us has one obligation, during the bewildered days of our pilgrimage here: the saving of his own soul, and secondarily and incidentally thereby affecting for good such other souls as come under our influence.

Each member of the band has varied influences, and the same diversity is reflected in our fanbase.

Entertainment and art have power. Our culture is molded more so by entertainment than any other influence.

Enthusiasm begets enthusiasm, eloquence produces conviction for the moment; but it is only by truth to Nature and the everlasting institutions of mankind that those abiding influences are won that enlarge from generation to generation.

Even if parties associated with right wing populism don't win, they push other parties, the centrist parties, towards their position. So they do have an influence even if they're not in power.

Every gathering of Americans-whether a few on the porch of a crossroads store or massed thousands in a great stadium-is the possessor of a potentially immeasurable influence on the future.

Every ecosystem, even a small one, is sustainable because it has certain ensembles and conditions and influences that are unique to it. And the biological ensembles are almost certainly, even the most modest ones, in the thousands of species. We don't know what's involved in the models - not even the beginnings. And yet we're trying to make a sustainable world, which has to include the natural world. The human species is triumphant, but it's got to get a grip. It's got to come to understand what's happened, why we're this way and what we're doing.

Every moment of your lives you are exerting a tremendous influence, that will tell on the immortal interests of souls around you. Are you asleep, while your conduct is exerting such an influence?

Everyone has an influence on public affairs if he will take the trouble to exert it.

Everyone you know and all the people you meet have the potential to be someone important in the lives of others.

Every person has the latent ability to read minds and influence the physical world without touching it, but they don't have the ability to connect with the power source.

Every single one of us has the unique opportunity to create awareness and influence change

Everything in life influences my music. I've always used songwriting as a means to share what I think is profound.

Every thought, speech, and action of a person influences everything in the environment.

EVOLUTIONARIES is going to help create a worldview that will influence our vision ofthe future ... and also our role in consciously participating in it.

Excessive or irrational schedules are probably the single most destructive influence in all of software

Fashion is made up of paradoxes. There was a key moment in fashion. When the Japanese first arrived - Comme des Garçons, Yohji Yamamoto, and all - I have to humbly admit that I didn't understand the importance of it at all. It was Jean-Jacques Picart who explained it to me. They had a huge influence in that they showed that aestheticism could be different from prettiness, that there was beauty and that beauty was beyond pretty.

Fine thoughts are wealth, for the right use of which Men are and ought to be accountable,-- If not to Thee, to those they influence.