Quotes of: Influencing Keyword

Cocteau is someone who has made such a profound impression on me that there's no doubt he's influenced every one of my films.

Jacques Rivette

Envy, my son, wears herself away, and droops like a lamb under the influence of the evil eye.

Jacopo Sannazaro

But, for instance, when I was awfully young, I read all the Oz books. They were an enormous influence on me.

Jack Vance

In the latter half of the last century the impact of the expanding influence of Western culture and economic system brought about in China a severe conflict.

Chen Ning Yang

I learned to be a regional writer by reading people like Flannery O'Connor. She was a huge influence.

David Almond

The people you surround yourself with influence your behaviors, so choose friends who have healthy habits.

Dan Buettner

If I told you all the people that have secretly told me I've influenced them, you'd never believe it, and you'll never see it in print, either.

Dave Brubeck

We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

I was a pioneer in MTV and I was there from the very beginning. So I saw how that developed and how loose it was and how much fun it was in its looseness. And I was influenced a lot by that.

Daryl Hall

I've been as bad an influence on American literature as anyone I can think of.

Dashiell Hammett

When we first began and I was 14, my influences were the stuff that was in my parent's record collection like Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin.

Daniel Johns

We are very influenced by completely automatic things that we have no control over, and we don't know we're doing it.

Daniel Kahneman

The guitar influence that affected my songwriting came from the New Wave of British Heavy Metal.

Dave Mustaine

In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent.

Don Marquis

I believe there is a strong familial pull as the influence of beloved ancestors continues with us from the other side of the veil.

James E. Faust

I think the most dangerous influence for a young writer is to be treated with cynicism or discouragement.

Jane Gardam

As a new artist there's always outside influences trying to tell you how to make a song better for radio and how to do your hair.

Josh Groban

Practical men who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.

John Maynard Keynes

The Christian church in the U.S. is still strong numerically, but it has lost its decisive influence both in American public life and in American culture as a whole, especially in the major elite institutions of society.

Os Guinness

The openness of rural Nebraska certainly influenced me. That openness, in a way, fosters the imagination. But growing up, Lincoln wasn't a small town. It was a college town. It had record stores and was a liberal place.

Matthew Sweet

There's a time that may come in an organization where leading by influence is not enough. When things are not going the way they need to go, there's a time when one has to step up... to set the organization back on the right direction.

Abigail Johnson