Best 1875 quotes in «influence quotes» category

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.

Please repeat: influence is not popularity.

Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.

Position yourself as a center of influence, the one who knows the movers and shakers. People will respond to that, and you'll soon become what you project.

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.

Power is always a corrupting influence. In this mythical time - let's call it medieval, feudal - people in power are dictatorial and don't want their positions of power to be threatened.

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.

Principles are like a seed in the ground; they must continually be visited with heavenly influences or else your life will be a barren field.

Principles do not mainly influence even the principled; we talk on principle, but we act on interest.

Public commentary absolutely influences my work.

Pure, white rock 'n' roll, with no blues influence.

Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.

Race and temperament go for much in influencing opinion.

"Que No," Cafe's Tacvba latest single, has Sixties characteristics which we haven't done before, and "Matando" also has certain elements we hadn't come across. For me, it's difficult to say "it's this influence" or "it comes from there." Maybe it's easy for one to listen externally and identify influences.

Really, all things and persons are related to us, but according to our nature, they act on us not at once, but in succession, andwe are made aware of their presence one at a time. All persons, all things which we have known, are here present, and many more than we see; the world is full.

Revelation, indeed, as such had no influence on my mind

Religion is such a belief of the Bible as maintains a living influence on the heart.

Religion is the biggest influence on the intellect and the decadence of a people.

Resolve to throw off the influences of any unfortunate environment, and to build your own life to order.

Righteous women in their circle of influence, beginning in the home, can turn the world around.

Religion is ... the most pernicious single influence in human society, without one redeeming feature.

Remember, this is back in the 1940s, and it was sculpture which probably - in my instance probably came out of the European influence, [Alexander] Archipenko and things of that sort, [Jacques] Lipchitz to a certain extent, and I was influenced by those things and attempted to do work that emulated their style.

Roberto Calasso's survey of the renewed interest in myth demonstrates how decisive the gods' influence was on modern literature. Calasso is not only immensely learned; he is one of the most original thinkers and writers we have today.

Russia has cultivated an opaque network of patronage across the region that it uses to influence and direct decision- making.

Seeing TVXQ's music and stage makes me feel touched, and they're a very good influence on us.

Satan knows that the nature of humankind is to act out of how we feel rather than what we know. One of our most important defenses against satanic influence will be learning how to behave out of what we know is truth rather than what we feel.

Science fiction is like a blender - you can put in any historical experience and take influences from everything you see, read or experience.

Sebald, Naipaul, and Joyce are three of my biggest influences, all of them for their formal freedom and their ability to create mood. So those comparisons are immensely flattering and, of course, unearned.

Sergio Leone was a big influence on me because of the spaghetti westerns.

Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence neither speed up nor slow down add to nor diminish it is an imponderably valuable gift.

[Sherlock Holmes] has to understand the world. That's very much John's [Watson] influence on him. But like a lot of the friendships and relationships in that world, it's born out of necessity. It makes him better. There's a pragmatism to it. It's not whimsical or sentimental. It's born out of necessity.

Simple, sincere people seldom speak much of their piety; it shows itself in acts rather than words, and has more influence than homilies or protestations.

Situational variables can exert powerful influences over human behavior, more so that we recognize or acknowledge.

Smokey Robinson is one of my heroes as a singer and songwriter, a major influence on my own music from the very start.

Societies are healthiest when their radius of trust is broad and when people feel they can influence their own fate.

So as far as Serbia is concerned, it does not have the right to influence the privatization or to claim any property, because Kosovo is a former member of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

Some events take a lifetime to reveal their damage and influence.

So long as the serpent continues to crawl on the ground, the primary influence of woman will be indirect.

So much of what I create has been due to the influence of Miles Davis and Donald Byrd, and so many of those that have passed on. Their music, their legacy lives on with the rest of us because we are so highly influenced by their experience and what they have given us.

Spiritual influence never coincided with material affluence.

Sound conviction should influence us rather than public opinion.

Spontaneously to God should turn the soul, Like the magnetic needle to the pole; But what were that intrinsic virtue worth, Suppose some fellow, with more zeal than knowledge, Fresh from St. Andrew's College, Should nail the conscious needle to the north?

Spend the rest of your life doing what God prepared you to do.

Surround yourself with positive people and positive influences.

Strange is the influence of Marx on character.

Stuart Pearce will be a massive influence but we also need ten others to be massive influences

Take Google - I can use it, you can use it, anyone else can use it, but we all know its designed so that private power can influence significantly how you access it.

Take advantage of this great opportunity in your life to live it well, to be good, to have good works, and to influence other people for good.

[Ted Denson] is sort of a reluctant leader. He didn't try to flex his influence. He's just eminently followable.