Influence Quotes
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A mother would have been always present. A mother would have been a constant friend; her influence would have been beyond all other.
Jane Austen
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Mathematics can remove no prejudices and soften no obduracy. It has no influence in sweetening the bitter strife of parties, and in the moral world generally its action is perfectly null.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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California as a nation or part of a larger West Coast nation, should other states join with California, would be a good influence on the rest of the United States.
David Swanson
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One person can make a difference. You don't have to be a big shot. You don't have to have a lot of influence. You just have to have faith in your power to change things.
Norman Vincent Peale
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A snappy label and a manifesto would have been two of the very last things on my own career want list. That label enabled mainstream science fiction to safely assimilate our dissident influence, such as it was. Cyberpunk could then be embraced and given prizes and patted on the head, and genre science fiction could continue unchanged.
William Gibson
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You must never underestimate the power of your righteous influence.
Elaine S. Dalton
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My mother's influence in molding my character was conspicuous. She forced me to learn daily long chapters of the Bible by heart. To that discipline and patient, accurate resolve I owe not only much of my general power of taking pains, but of the best part of my taste for literature.
John Ruskin
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We can influence the future but not see it.
Stewart Brand
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The essence of influence is pull. It's an attraction. Great influencers attract people, to themselves, and to their ideas.
Bob Burg
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The companies that are the most influential and most successful are the ones that care about impact and the influence they have on the world.
Paul Buchheit
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Anime has been good to me. I made and continue to make very little money at it, but the undying, feverish loyalty of the fans of the genre has been such a life-changing influence for me that I wanted to do everything I possibly could to help give something back to them.
Steven Blum
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Influence is the single most important skill you can master in your lifetime.
Anthony Robbins
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Influence is the ability to move a person to a desired action.
Bob Burg
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I do believe that if we have information about your emotional experiences, we can help you be in a more positive mood and influence your wellness.
Rana el Kaliouby
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It will be the people with the greatest love, not the most information, who will influence us to change.
Bob Goff
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Childhood didn't have a big influence on me, really - in fact I spent most of it plotting how to escape.
Simon Callow
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The jet stream is the controlling influence over the world's weather systems.
Michael Fish
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My oldest brother was a big influence on the films I watched as a kid.
Sean William Scott
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We are always influenced by the work that we do. Having worked in manufacturing you are always inspired by it, whether it’s the design that goes into products, the production, the science, the technology.
Gavin Williamson
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Plasticity, then, in the wide sense of the word, means the possession of a structure weak enough to yield to an influence, but strong enough not to yield all at once. Each relatively stable phase of equilibrium in such a structure is marked by what we may call a new set of habits.
William James
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In order to have influence, you have to be influenced.
Stephen Covey
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When I started out, I preferred to watch my films without music, as its presence tends to mask the underlying pace of the film. I felt I could feel the rhythm of the film better without music to influence me.
Paul Hirsch
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As a child, I liked to play outside, to stroll through the fields, and I was an active member of the local children's gang, frequently being chased by field guards and building supervisors. Nevertheless, my performance at school was very good, and mainly due to the influence of my mother, I was allowed to attend high school.
Hartmut Michel
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No influence so quickly converts a radical into a reactionary as does his election to power.
Elisabeth Marbury