Influence Quotes
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I don't think [Dylan and the Beatles] influenced me a lot. I think it was inevitable; they were so powerful that you couldn't really escape the influence.
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Justice is expensive. That is why there is so little of it, and it is reserved for those few with enough money and influence to afford it.
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It's definitely an influence, I mean how can you not say you are influenced to play rock.
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But you still have an awesome responsibility, because you are helping to create something which might influence the thinking of millions of people.
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All the exciting contests and travel and sponsorships are cool, but I like to be able to have influence on people and on youngsters.
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My mother's work has been an enormous influence on me, but not literally. By that I mean, my photographs don't look like hers. That makes it difficult to compare them. What they do share is an emotional intensity.
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The market does not know you exist. You can do nothing to influence it. You can only control your behavior.
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Please repeat: influence is not popularity.
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R Stevie Moore was obviously a huge influence and is still a very big influence in my life.
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To influence others to change, you must be able to frame that change in terms of the future, and in a way that has value to all concerned.
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We and God have business with each other, and in opening ourselves to God's influence our deepest destiny is fulfilled.
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In journalism, as in politics, other people's lives are a currency to be bartered on behalf of notoriety and influence.
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My father was a huge influence on me.
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Writing music always happened for me in periods when I wasn't under the influence of mind-altering substance.
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The great and invigorating influences in American life have been the unorthodox: the people who challenge an existing institution or way of life, or say and do things that make people think.
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The Nightmare Before Christmas is my number one biggest influence artistically in every way.
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Matthey, a Geneva physician very close to Rousseau's influence, formulates the prospect for all men of reason: 'Do not glory in your state, if you are wise and civilized men; an instant suffices to disturb and annihilate that supposed wisdom of which you are so proud; an unexpected event, a sharp and sudden emotion of the soul will abruptly change the most reasonable and intelligent man into a raving idiot.
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Well, Peter Rowan and I had plans to form a band when he left Bill Monroe. I always thought it was going to be a bluegrass band, but I guess when Peter left Bill Monroe he had had enough of bluegrass. He had written some songs and of course the Beatles were a big influence back then. So, we decided to something different and it ended up being that.
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A woman is more influenced by what she divines than by what she is told.
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If I were a doctor nobody would be inviting me to talk to reservations. I'd be a different person. Writers can influence more people.
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You don't have to be a 'person of influence' to be influential. In fact, the most influential people in my life are probably not even aware of the things they've taught me.
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The BBC is very much in thrall to all this techno cross-fertilisation, in much the same way that print journalists are now encouraged to blog. To the point where there is an emerging breed of sub-editors who take perfectly well-written and punctuated original copy and rewrite it so that it resembles a text message written by a 14-year-old under the influence of Bacardi Breezers.
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Jazz is musical humor. The noun jazz describes a modern American technique for the playing of any music, accompanied by noise called harmony, and interpolated instrumental effects. It also describes music exhibiting influence of that technique which has as its traditional object to secure the effects of surprise, or in the broadest sense, humor.
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do not conceal my lack of admiration for a pain fully long list of redistributive measures undertaken by modern governments. Many serve no ethically accepted purpose such as compassion for the needy; indeed, they serve only as recognition of which groups possess or lack political influence.
