Best 1875 quotes in «influence quotes» category

I love Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton. I also love more cerebral poets like H.D. and Emily Dickinson. My parents subscribed to a monthly poetry periodical, and as a teenager I was introduced to Denise Levertov, who was an influence.

I'm a big fan of Beyonce and Rihanna. I've listened to Beyonce all my life, and she's a big influence on me.

I'm an Australian, and when I grew up much of my influences were American - blues music and country music, all that sort of thing.

I'm a spiritual person, I'm an America, I'm a Jew, and all of those things influence every breath I take, everywhere I go.

I'm a teacher still, but with a much larger classroom.

I'm from the Bob Wills and the Little Richard school of music. Bob Wills did what the hell he thought, Little Richard did what he thought, and those were my big influences.

I'm happy to have been a positive influence.

I'm inspired heavily by film influences - David Lynch's Blue Velvet, Federico Fellini, Alfred Hitchcock, Pedro Almodóvar, and what I see in the cinema - so there is a linking, an interweaving between memory, cinema and contemporary life, which the women in my pictures encapsulate.

Im not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers.

I'm particularly inspired by pristine locations. I enjoy working in areas where one can travel for miles without seeing any human influence.

I'm not ruling. I never ruled. I have one vote and I'm the leader of the party. I've always had a vote on the central committee. I always had more influence than that one vote. I'll admit that.

I'm very influenced by a lot of things, but my chief influence is my friends and what I see and what I feel and my own experiences and memory.

I'm trying to be me and embrace all the parts of me that have grown up, listened to more music and soaked up more influences.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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 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.

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

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.

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

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 order to eliminate the negative influences, simply ignore them.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

I realized that this story [Shelter] is all about family, family loss, and how it influences you day to day life.

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.

I really learned the power of the tube on Sesame Street and how it can influence a very young mind.

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.