Best 1875 quotes in «influence quotes» category

The only enduring influence we have to offer others is the influence God has in our own lives.

The only thing a title can buy is a little time-either to increase your level of influence with others or to undermine it.

The orchestration of press, radio and television to create a continuous, lasting and total environment renders the influence of propaganda virtually unnoticed precisely because it creates a constant environment.

The only way you can estimate environmental influences is by measuring them.

The people who influence you are people who believe in you.

The pernicious influence of the prize and medal giving in art is so great that it should be stopped. History proves that juries in art have been generally wrong.

The people you surround yourself with influence your behaviors, so choose friends who have healthy habits.

The persecution of genius fosters its influence.

The person who had the greatest influence in my life was my dad, who was a wonderful small businessman, devoted to his family, devoted to the local church.

The person with the most certainty in a given situation will influence the other.

The philosophers talk across the centuries exclusively to one another, hermetically sealed from any influences derived from non-philosophical discourse.

The poet and the painter are only truly great by the mutual influences of their studies, and the jealousy of glory has only produced an idle contest.

The point of my work is to show that culture and education aren't simply hobbies or minor influences.

The poet's habit of living should be set on a key so low that the common influences should delight him.

The power of free will is developed and confirmed by increasing the number of worthy motives which influence conduct.

The Press, which is mostly controlled by vested interests, has an excessive influence on public opinion.

The pure and benign light of revelation has had a meliorating influence on mankind.

The purpose of music is to sober and quiet the mind, thus making it susceptible to divine influences.

The prejudices of superstition are superior to all others, and have the strongest influence on the human mind.

The presence of many interacting influences, including the attainments of others, create further leeway in how one's performances and outcomes are cognitively appraised

The quality of what is said inevitably influences the way in which it is said, however inexperienced the writer.

The radio was my big influence. Comedy came from the instinctual feel I had for language.

The rappers have gone in and created a lot of hit music based upon my influence. And theyll tell you if you ask.

There are a couple of teachers I have had without whose influence I would not be as happy with who I am.

The paintings by Van Gough and Chagall had a big influence on me.

There are major influences on us that people are not aware of. There are big lies that nobody's willing to discuss.

There are leaders and there are those who lead. Leaders hold a position of power or influence. Those who lead inspire us.

There are moments when I resent even buying a book. But browsing is wonderful. I like to go and browse everywhere, even fashion shops. You can get influences from anywhere.

There are only a handful of designers that influence other designers, and I have to keep one step ahead of the game.

There are no mistakes or accidents. The present is malleable. Influence the odds. Free will is your pen, write your life.

There are both dull correctness and piquant carelessness; it is needless to say which will command the most readers and have the most influence.

There are things in your life you can control - and there are variables you can't. The more diligent you are at controlling what you can, the more influence you'll have over your destiny. You just have to figure out which are which.

There can be moments in your life where you may feel attracted to someone depending on circumstance, depending on the person of one gender or another, and sometimes where that is less of an influence in your life.

There is evidence that acupuncture influences the production of and distribution of a great many neurotransmitters and neuromodulators, and that this in turn alters the perception of pain.

There is a branding influence on my work. But there's nothing really new about people as brands. The only difference is the scale and exposure.

There is eternal influence and power in motherhood.

There is incredible power in the arts to inspire and influence.

There is no gene "for" such unambiguous bits of morphology as your left kneecap or your fingernail. [...] Hundreds of genes contribute to the building of most body parts and their action is channeled through a kaleidoscopic series of environmental influences: embryonic and postnatal, internal and external. Parts are not translated genes, and selection doesn't even work directly on parts.

"There is no such thing as a good influence, Mr. Gray. All influence is immoral — immoral from the scientific point of view." "Why?" "Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul.

There is a complete disconnect really or should be a disconnect between the retail price of the milk and what's actually going on in the marketplace, and what influences the farm gate price is the export market.

There is no influence like the influence of habit.

There is nothing in history to parallel the influence of Jesus Christ.

There is to the poetical sense a ravishing prophecy and winsome intimation in flowers that now and then, from the influence of mood of circumstance, reasserts itself like the reminiscence of childhood, or the spell of love.

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The religious superstitions of women perpetuate their bondage more than all other adverse influences.

There is nothing of which men are more liberal than their good advice, be their stock of it ever so small; because it seems to carry in it an intimation of their own influence, importance or worth.

There is not one shred of evidence that the Internet has had any downward influence on North American or European newspaper circulation.

There's something known as "memory conformity," also known as "social contagion of memory," which refers to a situation where one person's telling of a memory influences another person's account of that same experience.

There was a writer in the '20s called Christopher Morley, who I remember a little bit of, who had some influence on me, but I couldn't tell you what it was.

There would never have been a British Ballet without Diaghilev. He had a wonderful influence