Influence Quotes

• Leaders are active instead of reactive, shaping ideas instead of responding to them. Leaders adopt a personal and active attitude toward goals. The influence a leader exerts in altering moods, evoking images and expectations, and in establishing specific desires and objectives determines the direction an organization takes. The net result of this influence is to change the way people think about what is desirable, possible, and necessary. In other words, leaders are visionaries and managers operate within those established visions.

  

  Abraham Zaleznik
  • Influence
  • Leaders
  • Visionaries

• We are well aware that religion is not as bad an influence as it was a short time ago, as history is counted. But it is a sufficiently bad influence even in modern times, and its reduced viciousness (in practice) is due plainly enough to its reduced power.

  

  E. Haldeman-Julius
  • Time
  • Power
  • Bad

• All my siblings being all different ages meant I got exposed to music that was 20-30 years older than me. And that was a big influence.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Music
  • Different
  • Me

• There's obviously a sense of responsibility that comes with having this following and having fans, and so there's a lot of stuff that I won't dare to post, just because I want to be a good influence.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • Good
  • Want
  • Responsibility

• And even if these scenes from our youth were given back to us we would hardly know what to do. The tender, secret influence that passed from them into us could not rise again. We might be amongst them and move in them; we might remember and love them and be stirred by the sight of them. But it would be like gazing at the photograph of a dead comrade; those are his features, it is his face, and the days we spent together take on a mournful life in the memory; but the man himself it is not.

  

  Erich Maria Remarque
  • Life
  • Man
  • Secret

• The most fundamental in me is coming uppermost, and the transient, the sensational, is dispersing, because it can't adversely influence what is essential to me.

  

  Oskar Kokoschka
  • Transient
  • Sensational
  • Adversely

• In terms of history, the influence of traditional Irish music in a storytelling manner is probably where the desire to do that comes from. It’s a bit of a lost art in modern music, especially modern U.S. music.

  

  Ken Casey
  • Music
  • History
  • Influence

• The Beatles had an influence on everybody. You have to realize what an incredible explosion the Beatles were.

  

  Ian "Lemmy" Kilmister Motörhead
  • Influence
  • The Beatles
  • Explosion

• I think the Cosmic Psychos were a band that was highly influential on the Seattle so called grunge scene. I know that Kurt and Nirvana were fans, they played shows with Pearl Jam. Even thou the Cosmic Psychos never had the commercial impact or success that those bands had, they were still a major influence on them, and I think a lot of it had to do with the spirit and the sound of their music.

  

  Butch Vig Garbage
  • Music
  • Success
  • Scene

• The vitality of a culture is in its capacity to assimilate foreign influences. The culture that's defensive and closed condemns itself to decadence.

  

  Juan Goytisolo
  • Culture
  • Capacity
  • Vitality

• Grace is always natural, though that does not prevent its being often used to hide a lie. The rude shocks and uncomfortably constraining influences of life disappear among graceful women and poetical men; they are the most deceptive beings in creation; distrust and doubt cannot stand before them; they create what they imagine; if they do not lie to others, they do to their own hearts; for illusion is their element, fiction their vocation, and pleasures in appearance their happiness. Beware of grace in woman, and poetry in man -- weapons the more dangerous because the least dreaded!

  

  Marquis De Custine
  • Men
  • Heart
  • Doubt

• The things I write are combinations of all of the people that have been influences to me.

  

  Gerry Beckley America
  • People
  • Writing
  • Combination

• Not even generals can stop the rain.

  

  Jeff Shaara
  • Influence
  • Idolatry
  • Sovereignty-of-God

• People that know me know that I love all kinds of genres of music and I like to sing all kinds of genres of music when I was growing up and all of the genres have influenced me in many different ways.

  

  Gabby Barrett
  • Music
  • Growing Up
  • Genres

• You exert a certain degree of influence, and be it ever so small, it affects some person or persons, and for the results of the influence you exert you are held accountable. You, therefore, whether you acknowledge it or not, have assumed an importance before God and man that cannot be overlooked.

  

  Lorenzo Snow
  • God
  • Men
  • Small

• I have at all times tried to use my influence toward protecting the property holders and substantial men of the country from thieves, outlaws and murderers, among whom I do not care to be classed.

  

  Clay Allison
  • Men
  • Protecting
  • Thieves

• I have reached the conviction that the abolition of the death penalty is desirable. Reasons: 1) Irreparability in the event of an error of justice, 2) Detrimental moral influence of the execution procedure on those who, whether directly or indirectly, have to do with the procedure.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Justice
  • Moral
  • Death Penalty

• I could not clearly distinguish what was passing in my head; it seemed to me that I was under the influence of a horrible dream and that I had but to awake to find myself cured; at times it seemed that my entire life had been a dream, ridiculous and childish, the falseness of which had just been disclosed.

  

  Alfred de Musset
  • Dream
  • Childish
  • Cured

• You don't want to influence the same system you are trying to forecast.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Trying
  • Same
  • Influence

• I think in particularly with young kids who don't have a lot of positive influences, pop culture almost becomes a larger part of that self-discovery and how you define yourself.

  

  Terry Gross
  • Thinking
  • Kids
  • Culture

• He [Stephen Douglas] is blowing out the moral lights around us, when he contends that whoever wants slaves has a right to hold them; that he is penetrating, so far as lies in his power, the human soul, and eradicating the light of reason and the love of liberty, when he is in every possible way preparing the public mind, by his vast influence, for making the institution of slavery perpetual and national.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Slaves
  • Human Soul
  • Eradicating

• I will absolutely say that Johnny Ramone was a huge influence on me. I'm a giant Ramones fan.

  

  Scott Ian Anthrax
  • Influence
  • Fan

• It is not possible to know how far the influence of any amiable, honest-hearted duty-doing man flies out into the world, but it is very possible to know how it has touched one's self in going by.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Influence
  • Touched
  • Flies

• The '90s period I just miss because it was such a great time and the music was just so electric. Everybody just had to bring their A-game back then because everybody that was, you know, a big influence...they were on the charts. I bring that era with me everywhere I go. I care about every word I sing. I care about every move I make on stage. I care about the fans. I bring that with me to the present time. And then, when you're timeless, you can work in any time.

  

  Brandy
  • Music
  • Sing
  • Miss

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