Best 1875 quotes in «influence quotes» category

[Only by] the good influence of our conduct may we bring salvation in human affairs; or like a fatal comet we may bring destruction in our train.

Only when you find the courage to say something to someone that might influence a change in your behavior, does that behavior change.

Oscar Peterson is the greatest living influence on jazz pianists today.

Our best work is done, our greatest influence is exerted, when we are without thought of self.

Our certainty that angels right now witness how we are walking through life should mightily influence the decisions we make. God is watching, and His angels are interested spectators too.

Our chief justices have probably had more profound and lasting influence on their times and on the direction of the nation than most presidents.

Our greatest leaders are neither dreamers nor dictators: They are, like Jefferson, those who articulate national aspirations yet master the mechanics of influence and know when to depart from dogma.

OUR history begins before we are born. We represent the hereditary influences of our race, and our ancestors virtually live in us.

..Our level of influence is not the same with everyone.

Our own species evolved under the influence of group selection, as Darwin emphasized when he discussed the evolution of altruism.

Our relations with Iran have witnessed grave crises because of the policies of successive regimes in Iran which have considered Iraq and the Arab homeland, particularly the Arab Gulf area, as a sphere for domination and influence.

Our success in influencing or elevating others is in proportion to their belief in our belief in them.

People such as Hunter S. Thompson and the Beats were a huge influence on me, not just in what they were saying, but how they said it.

People of influence understand the incredible value of becoming a good listener.

People exercise an unconscious selection in being influenced.

People of excellence will always be brought before people of influence.

Perceived self-efficacy influences the types of causal attributions people make for their performances

People will follow you when you build the character to follow through.

Perform anonymous service. Whenever we do good for others anonymously, our sense of intrinsic worth and self-respect increases. ... Selfless service has always been one of the most powerful methods of influence.

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.

Persuasive influences are better than any amount of moralizing.

Photography and movies are a much bigger influence on me than music is itself.

Pictures you have taken have an influence on those that you are going to make. That's life!

Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.

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.

Picasso is still influencing me. Of course, I haven't got that kind of energy, or skill.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Public commentary absolutely influences my work.

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

Race and temperament go for much in influencing opinion.

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

"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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.