Quotes of: Influencing Keyword

I don't see myself as being as big of an influence as other people seem to think.

Marc Jacobs

You'd have to be completely crazy not to be influenced by and take from other artists. It's completely impossible not to.

Maira Kalman

I'm influenced by a lot of filmmakers; I like English filmmakers because I feel a kin to them.

Rupert Sanders

Another cause for the increase in alienation and cynicism is a feeling that too many policy decisions that affect individuals have been taken out of any system that has accountability or that they can influence.

Robert Teeter

I've always been the first to admit that Jimi was a very big influence on my early stuff.

Robin Trower

I wasn't aware that 'House on Mango Street' was so influenced by Spanish until after I finished.

Sandra Cisneros

Childhood didn't have a big influence on me, really - in fact I spent most of it plotting how to escape.

Simon Callow

I really hesitate to say that any of my shows influenced other writers.

Stephen J. Cannell

In a research-poor context,isolated experience replaces professional knowledge as the dominant influence on how teachers teach.

Mike Schmoker

Aggression is the most common behavior used by many organizations, a nearly invisible medium that influences all decisions and actions.

Margaret J. Wheatley

Obviously we're a consumer nation and you have the power to influence these big corporations who are running the world right now through what you chose to, or not to, purchase.

Daryl Hannah

Humans are distinguished from other species by a massive brain that enables us to imagine a future and influence it by what we do in the present. By using experience, knowledge and insight, our ancestors recognized they could anticipate dangers and o...

David Suzuki

Well, I wouldn't say that this experience had any influence on my decision to do this film about Andy, because Andy was apolitical. Andy was never political.

Milos Forman

I don't think that artists of any kind would or could sacrifice their artistic freedom by being more responsible with their influence on people, especially young people.

Christy Turlington

My father had retained an emotional affection for the ceremonial of his parental home, without allowing it to influence his intellectual freedom.

Franz Boas

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

I felt Joyce was an influence on my fiction, but in a very general way, as a kind of inspiration and a model for the beauty of language.

Don DeLillo

The greatest ability in business is to get along with others and influence their actions. A chip on the shoulder is too heavy a piece of baggage to carry through life.

John Hannah

I love baseball. The game allowed me the influence to impact kids in a positive way. This gives me a chance to talk to some social issues.

Cal Ripken, Jr.

As far as rap goes, I grew up in Hollis, Queens, so early influences were people like Run DMC and LL Cool J.

Ja Rule

A short exposure to the convention convinced me that the Internet may save the Democracy in that it is a way for the people, for the citizens, to have some direct influence on the government.

John Jay Hooker