Best 1875 quotes in «influence quotes» category

I have certainly not got re-elected to retire, and I shall certainly start trying to push my influence in politics as far as I possibly can

I have many favorite actors that have influenced me all my life and that are still idols and models to me. It would be extremely hard for me to narrow it down to a few because each and every one of them influence me in a different way, on a different level, with diverse things, emotions, or thoughts.

I have moved around a lot, and I've lived in all of these different environments - that has affected the kinds of music and the range of music and influences I've had in my life. All of those influences - more subconsciously - play into the music I make.

I have overlived the generation with which mutual labors & perils begat mutual confidence and influence.

I hope to inspire people, influence people.

I influence people, hopefully on the positive side.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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 teacher still, but with a much larger classroom.

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 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 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 happy to have been a positive influence.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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 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 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 order to eliminate the negative influences, simply ignore them.

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

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.