Influence Quotes

• One have our biggest challenges if making sure that we are staying true to the mission that we feel called to do, which is writing songs for the church and helping the church connect with God. While the global ministry grows and the influence has been blessed in an amazing way, we are really conscious about staying focused on the families that come into our church every weekend and making sure that we're meeting their needs for whatever season they're in.

  

  Reuben Morgan
  • Challenges
  • Weekend
  • Meetings

• What is true of Mr. Mill's influence on the women's-suffrage question is true also of the other political movements in which he took an active interest.

  

  Millicent Fawcett
  • Political
  • Interest
  • Active

• "Summer Sisters" was actually was a huge influence on "Girls" because it was the first thing I ever consumed that sort of looked at the way that female friendship can be glorious and can be complicated and can be so like a worse betrayal than something romantic and it just showed these archetypes of femininity than totally sort of individuated them and exploded them.

  

  Judy Blume
  • Girl
  • Summer
  • Female

• Nothing is so contemptible as habitual contempt. It is impossible to remain long under its control without being dwarfed by its influence.

  

  Elias Lyman Magoon
  • Control
  • Remain
  • Habitual

• Im not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers.

  

  Robert Wyatt
  • People
  • Nature
  • Poet

• Every brilliant book I read is an influence and an inspiration. As is every brilliant movie I watch and every brilliant box set.

  

  Lisa Jewell
  • Book
  • Movie
  • Inspiration

• Armstrong was the key creator of the mature working language of jazz. Three decades after his death and more than three-quarters of a century since his influence first began to spread, not a single musician who has mastered that language fails to make daily use, knowingly or unknowingly, of something that was invented by Louis Armstrong.

  

  Dan Morgenstern
  • Language
  • Musician
  • Jazz

• When I try to explain to people the big influences in my life, or at least when I first started, the most important ones were my friends who were also writing songs and were typically four or five years older than me.

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • People
  • Important
  • Trying

• Be a light, not a judge, be a model not a critic. Little by little, your circle of influence will explode and you will avoid the emotional metastasizing cancers of complaining, criticizing, competing, comparing and cynicism, all which reflect victimization, all of which are the opposite of being proactive.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Emotional
  • Cancer
  • Judging

• I don't really have a favorite bass player. I listen to a lot of bluegrass. But then again, I'm not a typical bluegrass bass player. I was really into the Grateful Dead, and I still am - I don't listen to them too much, but for me they are a big influence.

  

  Mike Gordon
  • Player
  • Grateful
  • Bass

• The failure of Christianity in the areas west from Sicily was even greater, and was increased by the spread of Arab outlooks and influence to that area, and especially to Spain.

  

  Carroll Quigley
  • Failure
  • Christianity
  • Spread

• Putting yourself in others’ shoes so as to predict and influence what they will do.

  

  Avinash Dixit
  • Influence
  • Predict
  • Putting

• I'm not attracted to naturalism, I'm not attracted to behavior, I'm attracted to dance. I'm attracted to gesture, I'm attracted to singing with your voice, as opposed to having a natural manner. I'm a theater actor first, so that probably influences a lot of my approach. And I think in many ways, naturalism has ruined movies.

  

  Willem Dafoe
  • Thinking
  • Singing
  • Natural

• When it’s still—when it’s the cellar of a house, or a ring of mushrooms in a forest or a gun emplacement outside Offenburg—it’s called one of two things. If it remains static and unchanging then we call it a despair. If it seeks to extend its influence then it is a malignancy. Or as the Director puts it—a despair will suck you in, but a malignancy is coming to get you.

  

  Ben Aaronovitch
  • Director
  • Despair
  • Mushrooms

• Every great idea exerts, on first appearing, a tyrannical influence: Hence, the advantages it brings are turned all too soon into disadvantages.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Influence
  • Advantages
  • Great Idea

• It's the clothes that influence the music I'm going to play.

  

  Graham Coxon Blur
  • Play
  • Influence
  • Clothes

• Today, because photography exercises such a profound influence upon the study of art, we tend to disregard the way in which prints continue to function as information.

  

  Edward Lucie-Smith
  • Art
  • Photography
  • Prints

• Our immediate influence in b-boying was James Brown, point blank.

  

  Crazy Legs
  • Influence
  • Brown

• For those that love the world serve it in action, Grow rich, popular, and full of influence; And should they paint or write still is it action, The struggle of the fly in marmalade.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • World
  • Writing
  • Action

• There are only a handful of designers that influence other designers, and I have to keep one step ahead of the game.

  

  Alexander McQueen
  • Game
  • Influence
  • Designers

• Now, it's high time for all those that have an influence on the parties with the conflict to understand that it is in the interest of everybody to put an end to this conflict. But this kind of persuasion, this kind of intense pressure, I believe it's my duty to do, even if I recognize that the contradictions and the different perceptions of interest that exist are making it very difficult.

  

  Antonio Guterres
  • Different
  • Party
  • Kind

• I realized that influence was inextricably linked to impact — the more influence you had, the more impact you could create. . . . The ability to make things go viral felt like the closest that we could get to having a human superpower.

  

  Emerson Spartz
  • Humans
  • Ability
  • Impact

• We wear our names heavily. And though we have tried to escape their influence, they have seeped into us, and we find ourselves living their patterns again and again.

  

  Eleanor Brown
  • Influence
  • Names
  • Escape

• I got my influences from '70s bands - Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, blah blah blah. When I was growing up, we had all these crazy bands on the Top 40. Today, if Pink Floyd released 'Money,' it wouldn't even get played.

  

  Al Jourgensen 1000 Homo DJs
  • Today
  • Growing
  • Popular

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