Best 1875 quotes in «influence quotes» category

It is well known that you can only manage what you measure, and as this is the job of professional accountants, it means they have huge influence on companies' governance.

It must be evident how multifarious and how mutually complicated are the considerations which the working of such an engine involve. There are frequently several distinct sets of effects going on simultaneously; all in a manner independent of each other, and yet to a greater or less degree exercising a mutual influence.

I try not to make any boundaries. I try to let all art influence me.

It's a huge responsibility to have influence and to steward it in a way that leads to God-honoring leadership.

It seems fair to say that while the moral standards of the nineteenth century persisted almost unchanged into the twentieth, moral practices changed sharply, and that though the standards of the nineteenth century persisted the institutions that had sustained them and the sanctions that had enforced them lost influence and authority.

It's frightful that people who are so ignorant should have so much influence.

It's inevitable your environment will influence what you do

It's hard for me to show work while I'm writing, because other people's comments will influence what happens.

It's in vain to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present.

It's the biggest economic influence in a woman's life whether she can decide when and whether to have children or not.

It's still too early to say how my wife will influence my life. But I do already know that it's sometimes hard work living with her.

I use a combination of all my influences on my albums.

It's very rare that someone gets the death penalty for charges of conspiracy, for his influence, for his Svengali-Rasputin act.

It was not really the external influences that made me a singer. Music was within me. I was full of it.

It wasn't until I was in my teens that I started admiring writers as inspirations for my own work, and my earliest influences there were Stephen King, Marion Zimmer Bradley and Richard Adams.

I've thought of doing many things in my life, under the influence of life, and I've never actually thought of straddling two carriages while they're moving.

I've always liked country music. It's a certain aspect of America that goes back to the British Isles and the influence is very native to America.

I want to be a positive influence. I want to be someone who they want to call in and want here consistently, regardless of my role.

I was always interested in finding the elegance of each style and understanding why it influences so many people.

I was lucky. I had a lot of really good influences.

I went through a big Alice Cooper phase, which was probably a major influence on my writing style later, especially after Plastic Surgery Disasters.

I wasn't allowed to listen to a lot of music growing up. It wasn't until I started to make my gospel record when I was around 14 or 15 that I started to be exposed to more outside influences.

I was really influenced by Joan Didion and Pauline Kael; they were both at the height of their influence when I was coming into my own as a reader.

I went through a whole blues period in the Nineties, and that had some influence on 'Load' and 'ReLoad.'

I will absolutely say that Johnny Ramone was a huge influence on me. I'm a giant Ramones fan.

I was not going to surrender to the status quo and corporate insistence that ordinary people have no power and influence.

I would like to meet with Drake. I would love to meet him. He's from the city I'm from. I feel we share the same interests and I'm really just into his music and him as a person in general. He's great at what he does. I would want to meet Eminem. He was my first ever influence. The reason why I even started writing was because my mom bought me my first Eminem CD and I was glued from there.

I wouldn't change anything. Even the minor things or problems are what influence who I am.

I would say that Mickey Mouse has a greater influence on the American public than Shakespeare, Milton, Dante, Rabelais, Shostakovitch, Lenin, and/or Van Gogh. Which says 'What?' about the American Public. Disneyland remains the central attraction of Southern California, but the graveyard remains our reality.

Judeo-Christian revelation is not the negative influence secularists proclaim it to be. Rather, it is the taproot of our civilization.

John Faulkner's As I Lay Dying is very important to me as an influence. When I didn't know how to start Mr. Splitfoot, I just wrote the first line of As I Lay Dying instead and then continued on. It's dissolved in the text now, but it helped me start.

Jazz has always been a melting pot of influences and I plan to incorporate them all.

[ Jonathan] Edwards is the person who really made theological determinism a serious option for Reformed thinkers, and the influence his views had in nineteenth century Reformed thought, in the USA and the UK in particular, is enormous.

Keep the weeds of negative influence from your life. 'Farm' the seeds of constructive influence.

Justice is expensive. That is why there is so little of it, and it is reserved for those few with enough money and influence to afford it.

Kenneth Hari's art work shall influence mankind.

Know first that no urge, no influence, is greater than the will of the self to do what it determines to accomplish in any direction - whether physically, mentally, or spiritually.

Ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize.

Lay ye down the golden chain From Heaven, and pull at its inferior links Both Goddesses and Gods.

Leadership requires using power to influence the thoughts and actions of other people.

Leadership is influence.

Leadership is influence, nothing more, nothing less...titles don't have much value when it comes to leading. True leadership cannot be awarded, appointed, or assigned, it comes only from influence, and that cannot be mandated. It must be earned.

Legacy doesn't mean a lot because once you have left, even if you are one of the biggest individual shareholders it only means [a small amount of influence]. But it's something I'm very pleased about.

Let no guilty man escape if it can be avoided. Be specially vigilant-or instruct those engaged in the prosecution of fraud to be-against all who insinuate that they have high influence to protect-or to protect them. No personal consideration should stand in the way of performing a public duty.

Let us thank God that we live in an age when something has influence besides the bayonet.

Love has no great influences upon the sum of life.

London's like a black-browed brute that gets an unholy influence over you.

Looking back on my career, I think I've been extremely fortunate to be in the right place at the right time in order to have the influence that I did.

Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Lil Wayne, who is actually responsible for my career has always been a huge influence to me and one of my heroes.