Influences Quotes
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You can never really tell what your influences are.
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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.
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My first influences were superhero artists.
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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.
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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.
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My grandmother sang, too, and she was really loud. It was this wild kind of singing. I count her among my influences.
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The thinking brain influences the body’s responses and it makes a neat little loop.
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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.
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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.
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I felt I had a good ear, and I had the ability to sing like my influences.
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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.
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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.
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I think music influences fashion and has done so for generations.
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The religious superstitions of women perpetuate their bondage more than all other adverse influences.
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[R]eason is... given to us as a practical faculty, that is, as one that influences the will.
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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.
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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.
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"He who influences the thought of his times, influencesall the times that follow. He has made his impression oneternity. "
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My style influences my music and everything around me.
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The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years.
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Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.
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As Christians in America, we’re often lulled into the false belief that somehow we have a monopoly on the pure and undiluted version of the message of Jesus. Unfortunately, we don’t. Christianity by nature has a tendency to blend in and become obscured by the cultural influences that surround it—such has been the case for nearly 2,000 years of Christian history.
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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.
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Originality thrives in seclusion free of outside influences.
