Best 1875 quotes in «influence quotes» category

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

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.

Sebald, Naipaul, and Joyce are three of my biggest influences, all of them for their formal freedom and their ability to create mood. So those comparisons are immensely flattering and, of course, unearned.

Seeing TVXQ's music and stage makes me feel touched, and they're a very good influence on us.

Sergio Leone was a big influence on me because of the spaghetti westerns.

[Sherlock Holmes] has to understand the world. That's very much John's [Watson] influence on him. But like a lot of the friendships and relationships in that world, it's born out of necessity. It makes him better. There's a pragmatism to it. It's not whimsical or sentimental. It's born out of necessity.

Simple, sincere people seldom speak much of their piety; it shows itself in acts rather than words, and has more influence than homilies or protestations.

Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence neither speed up nor slow down add to nor diminish it is an imponderably valuable gift.

Situational variables can exert powerful influences over human behavior, more so that we recognize or acknowledge.

Smokey Robinson is one of my heroes as a singer and songwriter, a major influence on my own music from the very start.

So long as the serpent continues to crawl on the ground, the primary influence of woman will be indirect.

So as far as Serbia is concerned, it does not have the right to influence the privatization or to claim any property, because Kosovo is a former member of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

Societies are healthiest when their radius of trust is broad and when people feel they can influence their own fate.

Sound conviction should influence us rather than public opinion.

So much of what I create has been due to the influence of Miles Davis and Donald Byrd, and so many of those that have passed on. Their music, their legacy lives on with the rest of us because we are so highly influenced by their experience and what they have given us.

Some events take a lifetime to reveal their damage and influence.

Spiritual influence never coincided with material affluence.

Spontaneously to God should turn the soul, Like the magnetic needle to the pole; But what were that intrinsic virtue worth, Suppose some fellow, with more zeal than knowledge, Fresh from St. Andrew's College, Should nail the conscious needle to the north?

Spend the rest of your life doing what God prepared you to do.

Strange is the influence of Marx on character.

Take advantage of this great opportunity in your life to live it well, to be good, to have good works, and to influence other people for good.

Stuart Pearce will be a massive influence but we also need ten others to be massive influences

Surround yourself with positive people and positive influences.

Take Google - I can use it, you can use it, anyone else can use it, but we all know its designed so that private power can influence significantly how you access it.

That the state of knowledge in any country will exert a directive influence on the general system of instruction adopted in it, is a principle too obvious to require investigation.

[Ted Denson] is sort of a reluctant leader. He didn't try to flex his influence. He's just eminently followable.

T-Bone Walker was a big influence on just about every guitar player around.

Television and comic books are, and continue to be, probably the biggest influence in my life. It's the biggest influence on everybody's life.

That's the trouble with trying to influence an undecided voter. First you have to find one

The '90s period I just miss because it was such a great time and the music was just so electric. Everybody just had to bring their A-game back then because everybody that was, you know, a big influence...they were on the charts. I bring that era with me everywhere I go. I care about every word I sing. I care about every move I make on stage. I care about the fans. I bring that with me to the present time. And then, when you're timeless, you can work in any time.

The act of observing a quantum event probabalistically influences its outcome.

The ability to understand people is one of the greatest assets anyone can ever have.

The ability to connect and communicate is one of the most powerful, and you cannot find anyone who has been truly successful in life that doesn't have that ability because you've got to motivate, and you've got to -frankly, you have to influence.

The actor's relationship to the crew is really a big dynamic that influences everything. When actors are assholes, it becomes problematic. When actors are great and sensitive and prepared, it makes a huge difference.

The aim is to influence customers to use your product on their own, again and again without relying on overt calls to action such as ads or promotions.

The arguments for purity of life fail of their due influence, not because they have been considered and confuted, but because they have been passed over without consideration.

[The American position at the UN is] essentially impotent, without influence, heavily outvoted, and isolated.

The Americans have a very active presence and policy in every single part of the world and if we broke with them, we would lose any possibility of influencing them. They would go in for global unilateralism, and the world would be a more dangerous place.

The arts are very alive in Ireland, so that had its influence on me. But I consider myself European, really.

The Beatles had an influence on everybody. You have to realize what an incredible explosion the Beatles were.

The best scientific way to discover if one factor influences another is to do a controlled experiment.

The biggest musical influence on me was my mum. We were both enraptured by music.

The big influence on me was Robert Altman, who, especially in 'Nashville,' transformed my sense of dramatic structure and showed how you could handle overlapping stories.

The big turning point, really, was the Beatles' influence on American folk music, and then Roger took it to the next step, and then along came the Lovin' Spoonful and everybody else.

The blossom cannot tell what becomes of its odor, and no person can tell what becomes of his or her influence and example.

The cardinal virtue of a teacher [is] to protect the pupil from his own influence.

The cybernetics phase of cognitive science produced an amazing array of concrete results, in addition to its long-term (often underground) influence

The Central Bank should take into account other things as well: the stability of the bank system in the country, the increase or decrease of money supply in the economy, its influence on inflation.

The choice of a mate is crucial because no one has a greater influence on our spiritual lives.