Best 1875 quotes in «influence quotes» category

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 become directly influences what you get.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

With Kubrick and most film directors, they are in complete control, but one can influence them.

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?

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

With a little faith in themselves people, people can do miraculous things. But without it, they have a really tough time.

Without emotional control you cannot play, influence; you cannot react. You have to know what you have to do and not react. You have to be cool.

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

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

With great influence comes great responsibility.

Without love, there can be no connection, no future, and no success together.

With relationship comes access, and with intimacy comes influence.

Women temper men. We have a good influence on them.

Women are so strange in their influence that they tempt you to misplaced kindness.

Wonderful Force of Public Opinion! We must act and walk in all points as it prescribes; follow the traffic it bids us, realize the sum of money, the degree of influence it expects of us, or we shall be lightly esteemed; certain mouthfuls of articulate wind will be blown at us, and this what mortal courage can front?

Yes, influences are enriching, and they can be found in every work of art, even the most original.

Writing music always happened for me in periods when I wasn't under the influence of mind-altering substance.

Yeah, Dizzee Rascal is a huge influence on what I'm doing. I learnt a lot from him even though he's younger than me.

You become what you do. How and what you become depends on environmental influence so you become who you hang around. Raise the standard your peers must meet and you'll raise your expectations of yourself. If your environment is not making you better, change it.

You are, in fact, a mashup of what you choose to let into your life. You are the sum of your influences. The German writer Goethe said, "We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

You can be a model to the masses, but to go to the higher levels of influence, you have to work with individuals.

You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've become yourself.

You can commit no greater folly than to sit by the road side until someone comes along and invites you to ride with him to wealth or influence.

You can exert no influence if you are not susceptible to influence.

You can have no influence over those for whom you have underlying contempt.

You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.