Top 100 Quotes About Influence
#1. In France today, people no longer eat as much heavy food and fat as they did 15 or 20 years ago. These days, French cooking, through the influence of 'grande cuisine,' has become a bit lighter. And we are beginning to discover the original flavors of our produce.
Joel Robuchon
#2. You must strive to become much less susceptible to influences outside of yourself and much more inclined to trust the instincts and feelings that lie within you.
Bob Proctor
#3. What we say has such a profound influence upon what we see, and hear, and taste of the world!
David Abram
#4. He who wishes to exert a useful influence must be careful to insult nothing. Let him not be troubled by what seems absurd, but concentrate his energies to the creation of what is good. He must not demolish, but build. He must raise temples where mankind may come and partake of the purest pleasure.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#6. I wish I could play music. I think I get as closeas possible with the editing of the films. Over the years musichas been an even more important influence than-or as important as-film.There's no doubt about it. Painting, movement, dance, sculpture-it'sall in cinema.
Martin Scorsese
#8. I can't. I'm not a good influence on him. I keep getting him shot. I swear too much, I don't brush my teeth every time I go to bed, and I never remember to eat a balanced breakfast. You want someone with culture. Poise. A lack of gunfire.
-Toby
Seanan McGuire
#9. What's interesting is the populace movement of fundamentalism is starting to mirror that approach that elite fundamentalism has long had of trying to have influence across the political spectrum.
Jeff Sharlet
#10. Let us say that you might have become a telepathic cancer, a malignant mentality which in its inevitable dissolution would have poisoned other and greater minds.
Arthur C. Clarke
#11. Influence requires humility. The essence of influence is others. The key word is relationships.
Johnny Hunt
#12. The traditional notion of an architect having a vision of a building and then drawing it either on paper or on a computer and then constructing it isn't really how architecture works, and in reality, the computer has a lot of influence on design.
Michael Hansmeyer
#13. The spirit and tone of your home will have great influence on your children. If it is what it ought to be, it will fasten conviction on their minds, however wicked they may become.
Richard Cecil
#14. There is always something through which things get into our minds. There is always something in mind which does not only control the mind, but also the life we live in totality!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#15. 'Peanuts' is a life-long influence, going back to before I could even read.
Adrian Tomine
#16. When your team questions your competence, your ability to influence is shot.
John Fairclough
#17. The rappers have gone in and created a lot of hit music based upon my influence. And they'll tell you if you ask.
Isaac Hayes
#18. The Lord intends us to be powerful people-mighty in optimism and hopeful of spirit, powerful in evangelistic zeal, potent in influence, sturdy in moral fiber and purity. We can be powerhouses in prayer and preaching.
David Jeremiah
#19. He was no longer quite sure whether anything he had ever thought or felt was truly his own property, or whether his thoughts were merely a common part of the world's store of ideas which had always existed ready-made and which people only borrowed, like books from a library.
Milan Kundera
#20. Children have in the past and continue to influence policy makers.
Carol Bellamy
#21. By denying its musical and artistic merit, hip hop's critics get to have it both ways: they can deny the legitimate artistic standing of rap while seizing on its pervasive influence as an art form to prove what a terrible effect it has on youth.
Michael Eric Dyson
#22. I am not a libertarian, and I fight very strongly against libertarian influence within the Republican Party and the conservative movement.
Rick Santorum
#23. Influence is the key word in any definition of leadership.
Aubrey Malphurs
#24. Don't tell me I should only talk to people with a high influence score, or I'll Klout you ...
John Geddes
#25. I highly venerate the Masonic Institution, under the fullest persuasion that, when its principles are acknowledged and its laws and precepts obeyed, it comes nearest to the Christian religion, in its moral effects and influence, of any institution with which I am acquainted.
Theodore Roosevelt
#26. How can a coach have any influence over a player that's making over five times more than he is?
Hayden Fry
#27. Germany, because of the fact and the perception of a special relationship with Russia, is the only one who can influence Russian debate. Russians also believe that Germans understand them best because they've been through a big war and know what humiliation means.
Ivan Krastev
#29. Language is one of the greatest gifts man has devised for himself. It ranks, alongside the discovery of fire and the wheel, as a major influence in making modern man what he is today.
Edward R. Murrow
#30. Let us set apart special seasons for extraordinary prayer. For if this fire should be smothered beneath the ashes of a worldly conformity, it will dim the fire on the family altar, and lessen our influence both in the Church and in the world.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#31. A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence.
Bruce Lee
#32. 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
#34. For more than 220 years - from the 1620s to the 1840s - most American schooling was independent of government control, subsidy, and influence. From this educational freedom the American Republic was born.
Marshall Fritz
#35. Things happened the way they were supposed to, and it was no use trying to predict what was going to come next. People liked to think otherwise, but what you thought had no practical influence on what eventually happened. You can't think yourself well. You can't make yourself fall out of love.
Sarah Addison Allen
#36. Nothing I've ever written has been motivated by trying to impact or influence anybody.
Frank Zappa
#37. My dad is my biggest influence on me as a musician, even though he's not a musician.
Daron Malakian
#38. Wall Street banks have the right to express their views to lawmakers and regulators through lobbying, but the law is clear: If they want to influence lawmakers, they must disclose their lobbying expenditures.
Elizabeth Warren
#39. Our relationship with God broadens our opportunities and influence on earth
Sunday Adelaja
#40. Because everything we say and do is the length and shadow of our own souls, our influence is determined by the quality of our being.
Dale Turner
#41. Earn the Right - Ensure you put this chunk of Sales Tetris in place first and all the other pieces just take their own positions naturally.
Chris Murray
#42. It seemed to me that the human beings I met reacted pretty much the same to the same stimuli. Different idioms,yes. Circumstances and conditions having power to influence, yes. Inherent difference, no.
Zora Neale Hurston
#43. Sometimes we exist long enough to lead the next generation; other times, only to plant a seed and let its resonations of our time here on Earth ripple into new waves.
A.J. Darkholme
#44. if philosophy develops in the right ways, it might help ease the conflicts between rival dogmatic certainties. But, even if this hope is right, philosophy will never be a quick fix. Its influence is slow, the result of patient questioning and discussion.
Jonathan Glover
#45. Guilt is just as powerful, but its influence is positive, while shame's is destructive. Shame erodes our courage and fuels disengagement.
Brene Brown
#46. When marketers influence habits, they influence peoples' self-identity. And so when a group or company does something that doesn't correspond to our core values, it feels like a betrayal.
Charles Duhigg
#47. The arts are very alive in Ireland, so that had its influence on me. But I consider myself European, really.
Michael Fassbender
#49. No reproof or denunciation is so potent as the silent influence of a good example.
Hosea Ballou
#50. The only difference between the two groups was that the students conceded that they were influenced by the anchor, while the professionals denied that influence.
Daniel Kahneman
#51. Secret Societies have existed among all peoples, savage and civilized, since the beginning of recorded history ... It is beyond question that the secret societies of all ages have exercised a considerable degree of political influence.
Manly Hall
#52. Dogmas of every kind put assertion in the place of reason and give rise to more contention, bitterness, and want of charity than any other influence in human affairs.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#53. The kirtana of Madhava has an almost magnetic influence. The mind and heart get totally attracted, then drawn into the inside world where one can meet the soul of the universe. Tune in and you will have a deeply rewarding, spiritual experience.
Sacinandana Swami
#54. Connecting with my daughter is the most important thing in my life - the priority. I want to be a man who shows up for her. I want to have such a big influence on her, so that she knows she can call me about anything, which she does.
Jamie Foxx
#55. I think Stalin was afraid of Roosevelt. Whenever Roosevelt spoke, he sort of watched him with a certain awe. He was afraid of Roosevelt's influence in the world.
W. Averell Harriman
#56. She looked out the window; in her eyes was the light that you see only in children arriving at a new place, or in young people still open to new influences, still curious about the world because they have not yet been scarred by life.
Orhan Pamuk
#57. If the contemplation, even of inanimate beauty, is so delightful; if it ravishes the senses, even when the fair form is foreign tous: What must be the effects of moral beauty? And what influence must it have, when it embellishes our own mind, and is the result of our own reflection and industry?
David Hume
#58. It does influence every part of your life and it influences every decision you make. (speaking about faith)
Joe Gibbs
#59. In Psalm 72, Solomon prays for power and fame but he says the purpose of influence is to speak up for others and one is the immigrant. He doesn't delineate between legal and illegal.
Rick Warren
#60. Whatever we worship will be the biggest motivator of all we do and have the greatest influence on our lives.
Stormie O'martian
#61. There are three types of people out there; those who lean, those who lift, and those who lead. People who lean immobilize you; stay away from them. People who lift inspire you; keep them near. People who lead positively influence you; seek them out.
Farshad Asl
#62. I am a lover of all sorts of different music. I love blues and every piece of music that I have listened to has become an influence.
David Gilmour
#63. But in terms of satire and comedy, our biggest and earliest influence was Mad magazine.
Jerry Zucker
#64. If the poetry world celebrate its female stars at the true level of their productivity and influence, poetry would wind up being a largely female world, and the men would leave.
Eileen Myles
#65. Faithful parents can invite the power of heaven to influence their children. Nevertheless, those children remain agents unto themselves, and the choice to repent or not ultimately is theirs.
David A. Bednar
#66. The union with Christ which produces no effect on heart and life is a mere formal union, which is worthless before God. The faith which has not a sanctifying influence on the character is no better than the faith of devils.
J.C. Ryle
#67. Controls them and subdues, transmutes, bereaves Of their bad influence, and their good receives.
William Wordsworth
#68. I think it'd be a great honor to be able to influence someone's joy.
CL
#69. The next two sources of influence that routinely act on you are equally easy to spot. The people who surround you both motivate and enable your habits.
Kerry Patterson
#70. Use your influence to make impact and help others grow
Sunday Adelaja
#71. Pythagoras based musical education in the first place on certain melodies and rhythm that exercised a healing, a purifying influence on the human actions and passions, restoring 'Pristine Harmony' of the souls' faculties. He applied the same means to the curing of diseases of both body and mind ...
Porphyry
#72. 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.
Dhani Harrison
#73. Enthusiasm is the greatest asset in the world. It beats money and power and influence.
Henry Chester
#74. One does not fight to influence change and then leave the change to someone else to bring about.
Stokely Carmichael
#75. The influence of mystery is the greatest influence.
Paul Caponigro
#76. IP awareness and IP action are two different things, one does not always influence the other.
Kalyan C. Kankanala
#77. Lil Wayne, who is actually responsible for my career has always been a huge influence to me and one of my heroes.
Drake
#78. I hate it because of the monstrous injustice of slavery itself. I hate it because it deprives our republican example of its just influence in the world.
Abraham Lincoln
#79. So much of the world is being brought up on these stories that Hollywood is coming up with and exporting all over. They have so much power and influence, so it's really important that they represent women properly.
Brit Marling
#80. Fundamental analysis seeks to establish how underlying values are reflected in stock prices, whereas the theory of reflexivity shows how stock prices can influence underlying values
George Soros
#81. I read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me.
Michael Caine
#82. Mothers have a huge influence on how their daughters view themselves and how they treat their bodies.
Coco Rocha
#83. One of the greatest influences a person can have in this world is to influence a child.
Rosemary M. Wixom
#84. We often do more good by our sympathy than by our labors. A man may lose position, influence, wealth, and even health, and yet live on in comfort, if with resignation; but there is one thing without which life becomes a burden
that is human sympathy.
Frederic Farrar
#85. One is only happy in proportion as he makes others feel happy and only useful as he contributes his influences for the finer callings in life.
Milton S. Hershey
#86. Earning the Right is a commitment to be the sales professional that your customer really needs
Chris Murray
#87. In this culture, where entertainers and athletes wield such power, it seems only right to me that they try to make their influence a good one.
Pat Boone
#88. You cannot antagonize and be a positive influence, and you will antagonize when you discipline through emotion.
John Wooden
#89. In True Balance Sonia Choquette takes the mystery out of staying balanced, both physically and spiritually. She offers a clear explanation of our chakras and how they influence our daily lives.
Salle Merrill Redfield
#90. Putting a rheumatologist at the head of a committee that arguably was going to have more influence over brain research than any particular institution in the country at the time, I think a lot of people found surprising.
Steve Fainaru
#91. Image has an influence on what sort of car I will get to drive or deals that I'm offered by teams.
Nico Rosberg
#92. I always wanted to be a writer, but Alan Moore's work and help inspired me to write comics. In some ways the biggest influence on me writing was Punk. There was the idea that you could do something by simply doing it.
Neil Gaiman
#93. God seeks to influence humanity. This is at the heart of the Christmas story. It is the story of light coming into the darkness, of a Savior to show us the way, of light overcoming the darkness, of God's work to save the world.
Adam Hamilton
#94. Entertainment and art have power. Our culture is molded more so by entertainment than any other influence.
Michael Landon Jr.
#95. Sarah Palin has managed to use her failed vice presidential run to put herself in a position of power and influence. Joe Biden won the race and he hasn't been able to put himself in a position of power and influence.
Craig Ferguson
#96. For since it is impossible for a created monad to have a physical influence on the inner nature of another, this is the only way in which one can be dependent on another.
Gottfried Leibniz
#97. The thing about influence is that any composer worth anything will give you the same names.
Harrison Birtwistle
#98. Bill Gore from Goretex was a very strong influence because he was one of the first larger companies to experiment with freedom in the workplace.
Ricardo Semler
#99. Is he under the influence or something?
CM Punk
#100. In terms of design, it's true the world has an influence. But, as a designer, you have to protect yourself. You have to look at the world and then forget it.
Nicolas Ghesquiere
