Best 1875 quotes in «influence quotes» category

Before God, I'm an intimate. Before people, I'm a servant. Before the powers of hell, I'm a ruler, with no tolerance for their influence. Wisdom knows which role to fulfill at the proper time

Beware the influence of the military-industrial complex.

Big business depends entirely on the patronage of those who buy its products: the biggest enterprises loses its power and its influence when it loses its customers.

Bill Hicks is a huge influence. I love him.

Blind Willie Johnson is a pretty big vocal influence. He can be very harsh, like gargly, gruff vocals, but also just slip into some very delicate, vulnerable soft stuff. I like that combination.

Bobby Cox had the biggest influence in my career and probably the second- or third-biggest influence in my life.

Books are the best type of the influence of the past.

Bowie's been a huge influence on me. I remember early on, my dad pulling out the 'Diamond Dogs' album, and the cover alone just grabbed my attention. I think I was probably around 12.

Bud Powell's probably the biggest influence on my piano playing.

Build with advocacy, follow with influence. Your employees are your biggest brand advocates.

But, as soon as speculators become an important influence in the market, their business is to speculate on each others behaviour.

Byron owed the vast influence which he exercised over his contemporaries at least as much to his gloomy egotism as to the real power of his poetry.

But, for instance, when I was awfully young, I read all the Oz books. They were an enormous influence on me.

But in simple substances the influence of one monad over another is ideal only.

But I'm more interested in why people are frightened by Jaws and why Jaws was such a hit than saying Spielberg's my main influence.

By thinking and acting affirmatively in this minute, you will influence the hour, the day, and in time, your entire life.

Children have in the past and continue to influence policy makers.

Can you imagine a writer in England influencing? Absolutely not. And in France? It used to be, but no more-absolutely not. France used to, at least, have writers as diplomats, but not any more.

Certain unique books seem to be without forerunners or successors as far as their authors are concerned. Even though they may profoundly influence the work of other writers, for their creator they're complete, not leading anywhere.

Charisma is the ability to influence without logic.

Childhood didn't have a big influence on me, really - in fact I spent most of it plotting how to escape.

Children are more influenced by sermons you act than by sermons you preach.

China is in its own category - too big to ignore, too repressive to embrace, difficult to influence, and very, very proud.

Certainly my parents were a huge influence. They always expected the most out of all of us. And expected us to do our very best. I'm thankful to them for allowing me to do what I wanted to do.

China is very important. The future growth of China, China's influence is bound to rise.

Churches must extend their influence beyond the lives of church members to impact the broader community that they serve.

Colour is a power which directly influences the soul.

Consciousness succumbs all too easily to unconscious influences, and these are often truer and wiser than our conscious thinking.

Concord River is remarkable for the gentleness of its current, which is scarcely perceptible, and some have referred to its influence the proverbial moderation of the inhabitants of Concord, as exhibited in the Revolution, and on later occasions.

Contrast increases the splendor of beauty, but it disturbs its influence; it adds to its attractiveness, but diminishes its power.

Contractile movements arise, sometimes at the instigation of external stimuli but sometimes also in the absence of any apparent external influence.

Country music was the music I was brought up on. It's the music that's closest to my heart and the music that speaks to me the most, and it's always been a big influence on my own songwriting.

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

C.S. Lewis had a big influence on me in this spiritual realm - this sort of sense of longing. A longing for a knowledge that is just outside of our reach, a knowledge for a spiritual connection.

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

Court-virtues bear, like gems, the highest rate, Born where Heav'n influence scarce can penetrate. In life's low vale, the soil the virtues like, They please as beauties, here as wonders strike.

Daphne Guinness, who makes couture seem wearable, is an icon who influences what I wear.

Diminish the influence of fate

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.

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

Demons wait at crossroads attempting to influence our decisions.

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

Disco is a major influence in the world of fashion.

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.

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

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.

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

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.