Best 1875 quotes in «influence quotes» category

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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 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 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 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.

[ 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.

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.

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.

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

Kenneth Hari's art work shall influence mankind.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Lobbyist influence comes from access, not money.

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

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

Literary influences are harder for me to point to, because mostly it's a mulch of all of my past reading.

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.

Luther exerted a strong influence on Denmark. Suddenly Danish theologians were preaching in Danish and translating the Bible into Danish.

Love has no great influences upon the sum of life.

Malcolm X made me very strong at a time I needed to understand what I was angry about. He had peace in his heart. He exerted a big influence on me.

Man cannot influence in this respect the atomic forces of Nature.

Man is at his best when complimented by the influence of a good woman.

Mantovani was a great influence on me.

Metaphors hide in plain sight, and their influence is largely unconscious. We should mind our metaphors, though, because metaphors make up our minds.

Merging the ability to conduct surveillance that reveals every aspect of a person's life with the ability to conjure up the legal authority to execute that surveillance, and finally, removing any accountable judicial oversight, creates the opportunity for unprecedented influence over our system of government.

Miles Davis is a major influence of mine in terms of the way that I am as a bandleader.

Modern Western thought will pass into history and be incorporated in it, will have its influence and its place, just as our body will pass into the composition of grass, of sheep, of cutlets, and of men.

LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder.