Influences Quotes

• Since childhood, sports has been one of the most important influences in my life.

  

  Lindsey Vonn
  • Life
  • Important
  • Sports

• What psycho-analysis reveals in the transference phenomena of neurotics can also be observed in the lives of some normal people. The impression they give is of being pursued by a malignant fate or possessed by some 'daemonic' power; but psycho-analysis has always taken the view that their fate is for the most part arranged by themselves and determined by early infantile influences.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • People
  • Fate
  • Phenomena

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

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Ignore
  • Influences
  • Eliminate

• Most of our great influences were male rockers, like Led Zeppelin.

  

  Nancy Wilson Heart
  • MAle
  • Led Zeppelin
  • Rockers

• Afro-Caribbean influences are in me as a creative being the same way Spanish influences were in Picasso's work. I think the notion of labels - "black dancer, black choreographer" -is a ploy to divide and conquer, and to limit.

  

  Garth Fagan
  • Thinking
  • Way
  • Creative

• Who are my influences? Everybody.

  

  Cameron Esposito
  • Everybody
  • Influences

• Perceived self-efficacy influences the types of causal attributions people make for their performances.

  

  Albert Bandura
  • People
  • Performances
  • Causal

• God leaves to our conscience the choice of the road we decide to follow, and the liberty of yielding to one or another of the opposing influences that act upon us.

  

  Allan Kardec
  • Choice
  • Conscience
  • Influences

• 'Hot Fuss' was all based on fantasy. The English influences, the makeup - they were what I imagined rock was. I'm a dreamer, you know? So I dug into that dream and made 'Hot Fuss.' But hearing people call us 'the best British band from America' made me wonder about my family and who I was.

  

  Brandon Flowers The Killers
  • English
  • Fantasy
  • Hot Fuss

• It's hard to narrow down your influences in comedy.

  

  Cameron Esposito
  • Comedy
  • Influences
  • Narrow

• I remember watching Robert Powell many years ago. He did 'Jesus of Nazareth,' and I remember thinking that was probably my favorite. Once I got the role, I didn't want to watch anything, because it only influences what you do.

  

  Juan Pablo Di Pace
  • Role
  • Watching
  • Influences

• Fear, coercion, punishment, are the masculine remedies for moral weakness, but statistics show their failure for centuries. Why not change the system and try the education of the moral and intellectual faculties, cheerful surroundings, inspiring influences? Everything in our present system tends to lower the physical vitality, the self-respect, the moral tone, and to harden instead of reforming the criminal.

  

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Education
  • Punishment
  • Remedies

• Prayer lays hold upon God and influences Him to work. This is the meaning of prayer as it concerns God. This is the doctrine of prayer, or else there is nothing whatever in prayer.

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
  • Work
  • God
  • Prayer

• There have never been a lot of female guitarists out there, so most of my influences were male. Acoustically, I followed Joni Mitchell and Paul Simon. Also, John Lennon and Paul McCartney - both incredible acoustic guitar players.

  

  Nancy Wilson Heart
  • Female
  • MAle
  • Guitarists

• Jazz has always been a melting pot of influences and I plan to incorporate them all.

  

  Esperanza Spalding
  • Jazz
  • Influences
  • Incorporate

• The past influences everything and dictates nothing.

  

  Adam Phillips
  • Past
  • Influences
  • Dictates

• I don't know what genre you would put us into, and I'm always telling people that. When I'm trying to explain In This Moment's sound to them, all I can say is that its diverse-sounding, with influences such as metalcore's breakdowns, metal in general and some melodic rock.

  

  Maria Brink
  • Always
  • Sound
  • Explain

• I think music influences fashion and has done so for generations.

  

  Georgia May Jagger
  • Music
  • Fashion
  • Influences

• I bring a lot of international influence, and right now I really feel like I'm ahead of the game.

  

  BeBe Zahara Benet
  • Game
  • Influences
  • Feel Like

• . . . in seclusion, she had secluded herself from a thousand natural and healing influences; that, her mind, brooding solitary, had grown diseased, as all minds do and must and will that reverse the appointed order of their Maker . . .

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Minds
  • Reverse
  • Seclusion

• The human being is a self-propelled automaton entirely under the control of external influences. Willful and predetermined though they appear, his actions are governed not from within, but from without. He is like a float tossed about by the waves of a turbulent sea.

  

  Nikola Tesla
  • Sea
  • Human being
  • Governed

• The kind of people who can assemble huge crowds into one spot will be the major influences on mass culture in the next decade. The rock enthusiasts have created some of the most exciting theatrical events on the planet.

  

  Jim Morrison The Doors
  • People
  • Culture
  • Crowds

• Even though the music I make gathers influences from all over the place, I feel that the core of what I do comes from the jazz tradition. In terms of improvisation, interaction, feel and overall concept, Jazz is my main source of information and inspiration.

  

  Miguel Zenon
  • Inspiration
  • Concept
  • Interaction

• Most of my influences are from the past.

  

  Boy George Culture Club
  • Past
  • Influences

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