Best 1875 quotes in «influence quotes» category

I learned the power of storytelling and the responsibility that people with influence have to speak out

I liked actions movies. Jean-Claude Van Damme was a major influence on me at that point in my life.

I like the influence of the macabre, but I don't believe in ghosts.

I love Beyonce. She's so fierce. I also love Lily Allen, and she was an influence on my music.

I like the south of Spain, notably for the Moorish influence and the weather.

I like the influence and responsibility the Red Cross has become known for.

I love Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton. I also love more cerebral poets like H.D. and Emily Dickinson. My parents subscribed to a monthly poetry periodical, and as a teenager I was introduced to Denise Levertov, who was an influence.

I'm a big fan of Beyonce and Rihanna. I've listened to Beyonce all my life, and she's a big influence on me.

I'm an Australian, and when I grew up much of my influences were American - blues music and country music, all that sort of thing.

I'm a spiritual person, I'm an America, I'm a Jew, and all of those things influence every breath I take, everywhere I go.

I'm a teacher still, but with a much larger classroom.

I'm from the Bob Wills and the Little Richard school of music. Bob Wills did what the hell he thought, Little Richard did what he thought, and those were my big influences.

I'm happy to have been a positive influence.

I'll put it frankly - Britain has more influence in China than Norway or Switzerland, with all respect for the other countries.

I'm inspired heavily by film influences - David Lynch's Blue Velvet, Federico Fellini, Alfred Hitchcock, Pedro Almodóvar, and what I see in the cinema - so there is a linking, an interweaving between memory, cinema and contemporary life, which the women in my pictures encapsulate.

I'm not ruling. I never ruled. I have one vote and I'm the leader of the party. I've always had a vote on the central committee. I always had more influence than that one vote. I'll admit that.

I'm particularly inspired by pristine locations. I enjoy working in areas where one can travel for miles without seeing any human influence.

I listened to my record and hear lots of influences. And it's very rich... it's got a wide spectrum.

I'm very influenced by a lot of things, but my chief influence is my friends and what I see and what I feel and my own experiences and memory.

In Britain I'm sometimes regarded as a suspiciously Europeanized writer, who has this rather dubious French influence.

Im not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers.

I never had the influence of any other singer in my music, so I sounded like myself all the time.

Indeed the influence of music on the development of religion is a subject which would repay a sympathetic study.

I never went to church a day in my life. The dominant religion (influence) in my family was my grandfather who was a Scientologist.

I never wrote music or arranged songs or lyrics when I was under the influence of anything but coffee. That's not gone away.

I'm trying to be me and embrace all the parts of me that have grown up, listened to more music and soaked up more influences.

I never thought I'd be a good influence on anybody with anything I did or said or sang.

In every society where property exists there will ever be a struggle between rich and poor. Mixed in one assembly, equal laws can never be expected; they will either be made by the member to plunder the few who are rich, or by the influence to fleece the many who are poor.

In exchange for power, influence, command and a place in history, a president gives up the bulk of his privacy.

Influence comes out of the work that you've done and the things you've stood for. Influence and power shouldn't be given to just anybody who wants them.

Influence is a matter of selection - both acceptance and rejection.

Influence is providing attention and value to others.

Influence must ever be in proportion to property; and it is right it should.

Influence others positively by being a teacher, coach, counselor, or mentor.

Influence is just persuasion in slow motion.

Influence is the single most important skill you can master in your lifetime.

Influencers influence people and the people who they influence.

Influence follows close upon the heels of character; and whatever we are, that we shall in the end be acknowledged to be.

influence which is given on the side of money is usually against truth.

In my view, photography and painting really share one history. The influences that work on one, work on the other.

In Holland, things were pretty stale for me. Even though there were a lot of good influences and a certain openness to music and art and literature, I just wanted to go somewhere less familiar - somewhere bigger.

In every religion there is an element of the supernatural, varying with the influence of pure reason over its devotees.

In order to eliminate the negative influences, simply ignore them.

In order to become more influential with those who are resistant to our point of view, we must be willing to start with what is influencing them.

In Psalm 72, Solomon prays for power and fame but he says the purpose of influence is to speak up for others and one is the immigrant. He doesn't delineate between legal and illegal.

INTENTION, n. The mind's sense of the prevalence of one set of influences over another set; an effect whose cause is the imminence, immediate or remote, of the performance of an involuntary act.

Intellectual life requires for its expansion and manifestation the influences and assimilation of the interests and affections of others.

In order to have influence, you have to be influenced.

In the beginning [Hitler] was genial and pleasant. He would have extraordinary willpower and unheard-of influence on people.

In the beginning you must subject yourself to the influence of nature. You must be able to walk firmly on the ground before you start walking on a tightrope.