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.
We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.
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.
I've been as bad an influence on American literature as anyone I can think of.
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.
We are very influenced by completely automatic things that we have no control over, and we don't know we're doing it.
The guitar influence that affected my songwriting came from the New Wave of British Heavy Metal.
In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent.
I believe there is a strong familial pull as the influence of beloved ancestors continues with us from the other side of the veil.
I think the most dangerous influence for a young writer is to be treated with cynicism or discouragement.
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.
Practical men who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.
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.
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.
I should think just about every young writer - which I was at the time - would be influenced by HPL. As an American writer of weird fiction, he was at the top of the class.
I think guitar-wise, Eric Clapton was a big influence on me. I got to spend time around him. He's kind of strange, mysterious, serious and he always has played such hot guitar.
In comedy, looking back is more important than looking around at your contemporaries because they are too much influenced by the same time period as you are.
I get a lot of influence from pro wrestling. People are like, 'Oh, it's fake.' But it's not about whether the guy wins or loses, it's about how he entertains you the whole time you're watching.
The Italian prose tale had begun to exercise that influence as early as Chaucer's time: but circumstances and atmosphere were as yet unfavourable for its growth.
What we call soul has been around a long time. It comes out of a particular culture that is African in origin, but influenced by 250 years of slavery, as well as other forms of racial oppression.
Nothing has existence unless you, I, or some living creature perceives it, and how it is perceived further influences that reality. Even time itself is not exempted from biocentrism.
