Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henri Matisse

For my part I have never avoided the influence of others. I would have considered it cowardice and a lack of sincerity toward myself.

Henry Ward Beecher

Everyone has influence, for good or bad, upon others.

Martin Short

One of my great influences was Don Knotts as Barney Fife.

Michael Chabon

All novels are sequels; influence is bliss.

Manmohan Singh

China's influence is bound to rise.

Mahatma Gandhi

My Hinduism must be a very poor thing if it cannot flourish even under the most adverse influence.

John C. Maxwell

True leadership cannot be awarded, appointed, or assigned. It comes only from Influence.

Nick Flynn

Everything we do, I'd imagine, influences everything we will do.

Peggy Noonan

The core of the concept of a bribe is an inducement improperly influencing the performance of a public function meant to be gratuitously exercised.

John Dewey

When others are not doing what we would like them to or are threatening disobedience, we are most conscious of the need of controlling them and of the influences by which they are controlled.

John Dewey

An inanimate being is, of course, continuous with its surroundings; but the environing circumstances do not, save metaphorically, constitute an environment. For the inorganic being is not concerned in the influences which affect it.

Joey Santiago

Doolittle was a major influence on the Seattle grunge scene, which emerged in the early 1990s.

Most of my influences are turn-of-the-century.

Louisa May Alcott

Persuasive influences are better than any amount of moralizing.

Leo Tolstoy

Under the influence of music, it seems that I feel what I do not really feel, that I understand what I do not understand, that I do what I cannot do.

Joseph Campbell

The influence of a vital being vitalizes.

John Knox

You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Kwame Nkrumah

The forces that unite us are intrinsic and greater than the superimposed influences that keep us apart.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Marx profoundly affected those who did not accept his system. His influence extended to those who least supposed they were subject to it.

John Kenneth Galbraith

THE INDUSTRIAL SYSTEM requires that prices be under effective control. And it seeks the greatest possible influence over what buyers take at the established prices.

Mahathir Mohamad

No one should have extra influence on an organisation. We should always regard ourselves as equals in the organisation, and we should be concerned about each other's problems.

Maya Angelou

Intelligence always had a pornographic influence on me.

Robert Holden

The greatest influence you can have in any situation is to be the presence of love.

Jonah Hill

Albert Brooks is definitely one of my biggest influences, for sure.

Quentin Tarantino

Sergio Leone was a big influence on me because of the spaghetti westerns.

Rita Ora

All I can do is take influences from where I was raised.

Robert Harris

Orwell has always been a huge influence on me.

Saul Bellow

... a fellow can't predict what he will pick up in the form of influence.

Robert Teeter

As the society has gotten larger and more complex, individuals have lost their ability to influence any of the institutions that affect their lives.

Samuel Johnson

The arguments for purity of life fail of their due influence, not because they have been considered and confuted, but because they have been passed over without consideration.

Thomas Harris

You cant reduce me to a set of influences.

Stewart Brand

We can influence the future but not see it.

Leonard Peltier

The FBI with their heavy influence on the judiciary system has successfully blocked me on every turn.