Best 1875 quotes in «influence quotes» category

The stewardship of influence. What have you done with influence?

The superior artist is the one who knows how to be influenced.

The task of the strategist and leadership team is to reduce uncertainty in the areas that they can directly influence in order to pursue attractively difficult objectives.

The television industry claims they are only reflecting society with their programming and have no influence on behavior. If that is the case then why do businesses spend millions on TV ads that have no influence?

The theory, hypothesis, framework, or background knowledge held by an investigator can strongly influence what is observed.

The thing about influence is that any composer worth anything will give you the same names.

The things I write are combinations of all of the people that have been influences to me.

The things that concern us during the day are going to influence what we experience during the night.

The true end users of Facebook are the marketers who want to reach and influence us. They are Facebook's paying customers; we are the product. And we are its workers. The countless hours that we - and the young, particularly - spend on our profiles are the unpaid labor on which Facebook justifies its stock valuation.

The United States influences government and life everywhere else.

The way we metabolize our experience of time influences our biological clock.

The wolf exerts a powerful influence on the human imagination. It takes your stare and turns it back on you

The whole hope of human progress is suspended on the ever-growing influence of the Bible.

The word "influence" means the power to change or affect someone.

Those who are animated by hope can perform what would seem impossibilities to those who are under the depressing influence of fear.

The world is filled with terrible things that can influence children, and movies have depicted them since time immemorial. Should every terrible thing warrant an R-rating?

The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence.

Those influences which really make and mar human happiness and greatness are beyond the reach of the law. The law can keep neighbors from trespassing, but it cannot put neighborly courtesy and good-will into their relations.

Those who have had the most impact and influence throughout history and certainly the people who've had the most impact and influence on me personally have been basically entirely unaware of any such influence and made their chief concern their personal devotion and obedience, and the pleasure of God in the hidden things of their lives.

Though it is very easy to do valuations, eyeballs and brand prominence surveys, you should never allow any of them to influence the balance sheet.

Those who give up on their dreams shouldn't influence you to give up on yours.

Throw a stone into the stream and the ripples that propagate themselves are the beautiful type of all influence.

To be effective at selling ideas, at being a lobbyist, influencing other people, you have to be very sure of yourself.

To be surrounded by beautiful things has much influence upon the human creature; to make beautiful things has more.

To this day the Arab influence is evident in southern Italy, northern Africa and, above all, in Spain.

Tom [Collins] was a great influence on me. He really pushed me...constantly demanded rewrites. And, as much as I despised them, it was the best thing that could have happened because he just wouldn't settle for less. It had to be right, and it had to be good.

to deny that music powerfully influences our thoughts and conduct is either ignorant or a deliberate lie. Anyone who listens to music has been moved by it. It's music, that's the point.

To the extent that we live in a postmodern world and it shapes the concrete circumstances of our daily lives, I would say postmodernism affects my work or influences my work.

Ultimate influence is the ability to get the results you want from others while helping them feel genuinely good about themselves.

Truly successful individuals create both immediate and long-lasting influence attracting others to them.

True as this is, it is also true that for one who won through there were many who gained nothing, and it was, and is, the sheer weight of numbers of those who failed of this that has made their influence on the modern life as pervasive and controlling as it is.

true influence over another comes not from a moments eloquence nor from any happily chosen word, but from the accumulation of a lifetime's thoughts stored up in the eyes...the secret smile in the eyes of a friend

True it is, as society is instituted, marriage becomes somewhat of a lottery, for all its votaries are either the victims of Cupid or cupidity; in either instance, they are under the blinding influence of passion, and consequently but little subject to the control of reason.

True leadership cannot be awarded, appointed, or assigned. It comes only from Influence.

Trust is the conduit for influence; it's the medium through which ideas travel.

Very few worries can stand against the influence of a good long walk ... How many petty annoyances have I thus walked away!

Vladimir Putin knows exactly what he wants from the relationship with USA. In return for good relations, he wants lifting of sanctions, ratification, approval of his wars in Ukraine and Syria, and his dream of dreams, an acknowledgment of his sphere of influence in Ukraine and the former Soviet Union.

Vladimir Putin would like to have more influence in Ukraine. He would like to have Ukraine always knocked slightly off balance so that they don't know what he might do next. He would like to demonstrate that he has more power than the Ukrainians do. And so certainly by making a frozen conflict situation where Ukraine never really has a definitive sense of sovereignty over its own territory, that's in Putin's interest.

Voroshilov was a striking figure, with a great deal of influence among the workers, so that the degree of influence of the committee on the workers and its success as regards recruitment depended primarily on him.

We all steal, but if we're smart we steal from great directors. Then, we can call it influence.

We all need that sometimes, to get re-sparked again. Sometimes it's different influences and different motivations; sometimes we've got to go and get back to the basics.

We all have choices. (Astrid) No we don’t, princess. Only people with money and influence have choices. For the rest of us, basic necessity dictates what we have to do to survive. (Zarek)

We and God have business with each other, and in opening ourselves to God's influence our deepest destiny is fulfilled.

We are all cups, and our destiny is poured according to measures we cannot understand, cannot influence.

We are well aware that religion is not as bad an influence as it was a short time ago, as history is counted. But it is a sufficiently bad influence even in modern times, and its reduced viciousness (in practice) is due plainly enough to its reduced power.

We are not influenced by the techniques or fashions of any other company.

We believe a scientist because he can substantiate his remarks, not because he is eloquent and forcible in his enunciation. In fact, we distrust him when he seems to be influencing us by his manner.

We can influence people for bad or good.

We can trace almost all the disasters of English history to the influence of Wales.

We can't any longer have the conventional understanding of genetics which everybody peddles because it is increasingly obvious that epigenetics - actually things which influence the genome's function - are much more important than we realised.