Influences Quotes

• 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

• Via the squares on the chessboard, the Indians explain the movement of time and the age, the higher influences which control the world and the ties which link Chess with the human soul.

  

  Al-Masudi
  • Soul
  • Influences
  • Chessboard

• Most of my influences are from the past.

  

  Boy George Culture Club
  • Past
  • Influences

• Thank God for the joys of family life. I have often said there can be no genuine happiness separate and apart from a good home. The sweetest influences and associations of life are there.

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • Happiness
  • Joys
  • Thank God

• Freedom [should not be] conceived negatively as exemption from social influences or situational constraints. Rather...positively as the exercise of self-influence to bring about desired results.

  

  Albert Bandura
  • Freedom
  • Exercise
  • Result

• The thinking brain influences the body’s responses and it makes a neat little loop.

  

  Brad Warner
  • Influences
  • Responses
  • Loop

• My first influences were superhero artists.

  

  Scott McCloud
  • Artists
  • Superhero
  • Influences

• The forces that affect our lives, the influences that mold and shape us, are often like whispers in a different room, teasingly indistinct, apprehended only with difficulty.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Room
  • Influences
  • Whispers

• I am writing from the heart and having a fresh approach to things. We [Theocracy] are obviously not trying to musically re-invent the wheel here, and you can certainly hear our influences, but we also don't sound like a copycat of any one band.

  

  Matt Smith Poison
  • Heart
  • Band
  • Reinvent

• I felt I had a good ear, and I had the ability to sing like my influences.

  

  Jeff Gutt Stone Temple Pilots
  • Ability
  • Sing
  • Influences

• To gain the spiritual ascendancy over ourselves, and the influences with which we are surrounded, through a rigid course of self-discipline, is our first consideration, it is our first labor, before we can pave the way for our children to grow up without sin unto salvation.

  

  Brigham Young
  • Sin
  • Self-Discipline
  • Spiritual ascendancy

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

  

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Influences
  • Bondage
  • Superstitions

• My grandmother sang, too, and she was really loud. It was this wild kind of singing. I count her among my influences.

  

  Cassandra Wilson
  • Singing
  • Grandmother
  • Influences

• What is interesting to me is what has happened in the past that has made me who I am today together with all of my musical influences.

  

  John Lodge The Moody Blues
  • Music
  • Influences
  • Made Me

• Whenever I hear my playing, I can't detach from my influences: there's my Jeff Beck, there's the Clapton bit, the Eric Johnson bit, the Birelli Lagrene bit, the Billy Gibbons.

  

  Joe Bonamassa Black Country Communion
  • Hear
  • Eric
  • Clapton

• You can never really tell what your influences are.

  

  Winston Marshall Mumford & Sons
  • Really
  • Influences

• My influences are a wide variety: from Dave Chappelle stand-up comedy specials on YouTube, to watching chick-flick comedy movies, to scrolling through stuff people say on the Internet.

  

  Rich Brian
  • People
  • Movies
  • Watching

• Art comes into being in that abstract interval between a thought and reality, and no one - not even the artist who created it - can remeasure the influences that caused it.

  

  Edgar Alwin Payne
  • Art
  • Reality
  • Created

• [R]eason is... given to us as a practical faculty, that is, as one that influences the will.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Reason
  • Influences
  • Faculty

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

  

  George Eliot
  • Change
  • Life is
  • Influences

• I think when you're a writer most of what you read influences you. The rhythms get into your head.

  

  Elizabeth Crook
  • Writer
  • I Think
  • Rhythms

• The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years.

  

  Thomas Hardy
  • Events
  • Influences
  • Commonplace

• Originality thrives in seclusion free of outside influences.

  

  Nikola Tesla
  • Free
  • Influences
  • Originality

• My style influences my music and everything around me.

  

  Bad Bunny
  • Music
  • Style
  • Influences

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