Best 1875 quotes in «influence quotes» category

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

Demons wait at crossroads attempting to influence our decisions.

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

Diminish the influence of fate

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

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

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

Donald Trump understands China influence. He's been talking about it since 1980. He understands it. The people that are on the other side of this, including his opponent, Hillary Clinton, have been part of every bad trade negotiation we've had since 1993.

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.

Doonesbury had the requisite and overwhelming influence in 1980, as it did on any college cartoonist who was paying attention, of course.

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.

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

Disco is a major influence in the world of fashion.

Each social formation, through each of its material activities, exerts its influence upon the civic whole; and each of its ideas and ideals wins also its place and power.

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.

Economic and political structures that have a far sweeping impact on the lives of billions is not outside the purview of the gospel's redemptive influence.

English is an outrageous tangle of those derivations and other multifarious linguistic influences, from Yiddish to Shoshone, which has grown up around a gnarly core of chewy, clangorous yawps derived from ancestors who painted themselves blue to frighten their enemies.

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.

Elvis was a big influence to my music, but Loretta Lynn was, as well.

Enthusiasm is the greatest asset you can possess, for it can take you further than money, power or influence.

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.

Escapism and wonder is influence. It makes you feel good, and that allows you to do things. You just keep on moving ahead, and you say, 'God, is this wonderful - do I appreciate it.'

Even if you've had a negative effect on others in the past, you can turn that around and make your impact a positive one.

Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior.

Elvis Presley, The Everly Brothers, and a lot of American artists were my greatest influences.

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.

Even with Extreme, I don't think you have a choice but to sort of have somewhat of an influence of the times.

Every existence above a certain rank has its singular points; the higher the rank the more of them. At these points, influences whose physical magnitude is too small to be taken account of by a finite being may produce results of the greatest importance.

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.

Even when a person is frightened by threats into doing something, the threats work only because the person has an instinct of fear. If he has not, or if, though having it, it is under his own control, the threat has no more influence upon him than light has in causing a person to see who has no eyes.

Every great idea exerts, on first appearing, a tyrannical influence: Hence, the advantages it brings are turned all too soon into disadvantages.

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?

Every living being is an engine geared to the wheelwork of the universe. Though seemingly affected only by its immediate surrounding, the sphere of external influence extends to infinite distance.

Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.

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

Everyone has their parent's [music] collection which is strongly influences what you listen to as a kid. You have no choice. You have to listen to whatever they're bumpin. I grew up with what they listened to a lot.

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 person has seeds of greatness within, even though they may currently be dormant.

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

Every thought which genius and piety throw into the world alters the world.

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

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

Every single day in a marriage, we influence each other. It is a matter of am I going to have a positive influence or a negative influence?

Everything I experience influences everything I do.

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

Experience has shown that the trade of the East is the key to national wealth and influence.

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

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.