Best 1875 quotes in «influence quotes» category

We live in a media culture and whoever controls and influences and uses media the best has the power for change.

Well, I wouldn't say that this experience had any influence on my decision to do this film about Andy, because Andy was apolitical. Andy was never political.

We [must] hold the just balance and set ourselves as resolutely against improper corporate influence on the one hand as against demagogy and mob rule on the other.

We must not fail to recognise that television can be a hugely positive influence in children's lives, one of the greatest educators in contemporary society and an increasing influence on all the children followed in 'Child of Our Time.'

We must succumb to the general influence of the times. No man can be of the tenth century, if he would; be must be a man of the nineteenth century.

We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why. Not until the future eats the present, anyway. We know when it's too late.

We only know God in His works, but we are forced by science to admit and to believe with absolute confidence in a Directive Power-in an influence other than physical, or dynamical, or electrical forces.

We perceive and are affected by changes too subtle to be described.

We're also more affected by aspirational signals in an offline world where it is more difficult to "hide" and thus indirectly increases the influence from others.

We've come under the influence of television, where in all honesty we can follow a show that could just get cancelled midway through the season and the entire plotline never resolves itself.

We're in partnership with technology, influencing each other in a dance. My loyalties are to our making and shaping technology to conform to our human values; and to confronting the hard job of figuring out what those values are, and how are we're going to get technology to do that.

We should not let negative influences get to us.

We sometimes underestimate the influence of little things

We should treat children as God does us, who makes us happiest when He leaves us under the influence of innocent delusions.

We've always had a lot of different influences and we've always liked catchy music from the Beatles to Cheap Trick to Elvis Costello.

We wear our names heavily. And though we have tried to escape their influence, they have seeped into us, and we find ourselves living their patterns again and again.

Whatever I'm reading at the moment seems to influence whatever I'm writing.

Whatever I watched, whatever I loved in 36 years of life on Earth, probably had some influence on me.

Whatever you love, that will be an influence. It just will. So in effect the young writer's job is: go out and find some stuff to love.

What you become directly influences what you get.

What if miliseconds influence centuries?

What motivates it is life. Life is everything. Life influences my music and brings it forth. Life is always changing, so I'm always hearing new music.

What we think of Christ influences our thinking and controls our actions.

What you see determines how you interpret the world, which in turn influences what you expect of the world and how you expect the story of your life to unfold.

What you cannot have is a gene that sacrifices itself for the benefit of other genes. What you can have is a gene that makes organisms sacrifice themselves for other organisms under the influence of selfish genes.

When Hegel later became a man of influence' he insisted that the Jews should be granted equal rights because civic rights belong to man because he is a man and not on account of his ethnic origins or his religion.

When a plain-looking woman is loved, it is certain to be very passionately ; for either her influence on her lover is irresistible, or she has some secret and more irresistible charms than those of beauty.

When others are not doing what we would like them to or are threatening disobedience, we are most conscious of the need of controlling them and of the influences by which they are controlled.

When I'm gonna sing for people I try to meditate upon his majesty and meditate on what is right and then transmit it to the nation. That is how Rastafari really influence.

When it comes to influence, TRUST is often the missing piece.

When I was starting to write, the great influence was T.S. Eliot and after that William Butler Yeats.

When people ask me my influences and I'm like, "nobody" they're like, "there has to be somebody." People seem to think you have to have an influence.

When I started out, I preferred to watch my films without music, as its presence tends to mask the underlying pace of the film. I felt I could feel the rhythm of the film better without music to influence me.

When WHO works with the private sector, the Organization takes all possible measures to ensure its work to develop policy and guidelines is protected from industry influence.

When the original is well chosen and judiciously copied, the imitator often arrives at excellence which he could never have attained without direction; for few are formed with abilities to discover new possibilities of excellence, and to distinguish themselves by means never tried before.

When we take the position that it is not only the programmer's responsibility to produce a correct program but also to demonstrate its correctness in a convincing manner, then the above remarks have a profound influence on the programmer's activity: the object he has to produce must be usefully structured.

When Picasso painted in Paris, was he a Spanish or a French painter? It does not matter, he was Picasso, whatever the influences surrounding him. He simply chose Paris because it was the ideal place for him to sell his creation.

When your team questions your motives and methods, you have lost their trust and you will not be able to influence them.

When you look at our world, the truth is that we're all under the influence of politics.

When your team questions your competence, your ability to influence is shot.

When you say or do anything to please, get, keep, influence, or control anyone or anything, fear is the cause and pain is the result.

When you raise your opinion of yourself and what you are capable of it has a decided influence on what you do.

When you're making a movie, you feel like a very small part of something that you really don't have much influence upon. You roll in, you do your thing, and then you're gone.

When you see all of these bands citing you as influences, it makes you feel relevant

Where you live determines what you see. The people you listen to influence what you hear.

Why do villains have so much influence? Because the honest people are terribly dense.

Whether you are on the Right or the Left, everyone can agree that there are a lot of outside influences in American politics that are not good for the system. There's just too much money.

Whole interaction between the storyteller and the listeners had a very powerful influence on me.

Wisdom and compassion should become the dominating influences that guide our thoughts , our words, and our actions.

Why should not He had made all things, still having something immediately to do with the things that He has made? Where lies the great difficulty, if we own the being of a God, that He created all things out of nothing, I'll be allowing something immediate influence of God on creation still?