Influence Quotes

If Pac-Man had affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in dark rooms, munching pills and lis...

A modern revolutionary group, explained Abbie Hoffman, headed for the television station, not the fa...

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

I find that, as a rule, when a thing is a wonder to us it is not because of what we see in it, but b...

Ted Turner is still a leader. And he sets a great example. His ability financially has been reduced,...

Politics means striving to share power or striving to influence the distribution of power, either am...

Nobody should be whipped. Remember that, once and for all. Neither man nor animal can be influenced ...

He was no longer quite sure whether anything he had ever thought or felt was truly his own property,...

Never tell a child that something it’s too hard

Opinions are the cheapest commodities on earth. Everyone has a flock of opinions ready to be wished ...

On Andrew Jackson: "His native strength compelled every man to be his tool that came within his reac...

At the outset, I want to say that the suggestion that the struggle in South Africa is under the infl...

After 1968 the restored communist regime required all Czech rock musicians to sit a written exam in ...

A woman is more influenced by what she divines than by what she is told.

The foundation of all free government and all social order must be laid in families and in the disci...

By now, they rank people by income level or wages roughly the same: The bottom seventy per cent or s...

They grew up, moulded by the harsh or kindly pressure of their fellows, to be either well nurtured, ...

She looked out the window; in her eyes was the light that you see only in children arriving at a new...

They have influence, but no power." "In my experience, influence is power.

In my experience, influence is power.

The have influence, but no power.""In my experience, influence is power.

There was something terribly enthralling in the exercise of influence. No other activity was like it...

There is no such thing as a good influence. Because to influence a person is to give him one's own s...

Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts,...

The newly-minted captain admits the irony between the gold on his shoulders and the lack of gold in ...

When we turn around & come face to face with our destiny, we discover that words (spoken) are not en...

The greatest power one human being can exert over others is to control their perceptions of reality,...

My mom was my main influence growing up, and Phylicia Rashad reminded me a lot of my mother, just th...

I believe in having fun first, and along the way, if you teach people, if you influence people, well...

God, how we get our fingers in each other's clay. That's friendship, each playing the potter to see ...

A lasting solution to this problem will have an exceptionally positive influence foremost on the peo...

The purpose of influence is to "speak up for those who have no influence." (Pr.31:8) It's not about ...

In Psalm 72, Solomon prays for power and fame but he says the purpose of influence is to speak up fo...

If our faith is the most important part of our lives, then our religious views influence every other...

Like Solon, Plato intended to write a long fable about legendary Atlantis; like Solon, he never did ...

The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.

All of my work is influenced by fairy tales, and I hope my work shows Hans Christian Anderson's infl...

You don't have to be a person of influence to be influential. In fact, the most influential people i...

Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real ne...

My Father had a profound influence on me. He was a lunatic.

He did it (listened) as the world's most charming and magnetic people do, always asking the right qu...

We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why.

The kind of people we have in Washington only trust what they think they own.

The last achievement of the serious admirer is to stop immediately putting to work the energies arou...

I'm a Mommy's Girl - the strongest influence in my young life was my mom.

I am your opus.

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it ...

Most of the things you absorb you will ultimately secrete.

I think artists can influence only through making music that challenges people, excites them and fli...

There is always an inertia to be overcome in striking out a new line of conduct – not more in oursel...

Anyone who takes a decided line in certain matters, is sure to lead all the rest.

Remember this, I beseech you, all you boys who are getting into the upper forms. Now is the time in ...

It's true, some senior Hungarian writers are not known for their laughter. There is a strong Germani...

My dad used to say, 'Just because you dress up in a coat and tie, it doesn't influence your intellig...

For many my behavior has been a major disappointment, my behavior has caused considerable worry to m...

I don’t think this kind of thing [satire] has an impact on the unconverted, frankly. It’s not even p...

Hold fast to the Bible. To the influence of this Book we are indebted for all the progress made in t...

Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment tow...

Every line we succeed in publishing today - no matter how uncertain the future to which we entrust i...

Steve's sales pitch on the NeXT operating system was dazzling," according to Amelio. " He praised th...

As Friedland had done and as Jobs would learn to do, he was able to turn charm into a cunning force,...

Sculley found Jobs as memorable as his machine. " He seemed more a showman than a businessman. Every...

There is something indefinable in an entrepreneur, and I saw that in Steve," he said. " He was inter...

The thing that struck me was his intensity. Whatever he was interested in he would generally carry t...

Steve's head dropped and stared at his feet. After a weighty, uncomfortable pause, he issued a chall...

If you believe that your thoughts originate inside your brain, do you also believe that television s...

Bouchalka was not a reflective person. He had his own idea of what a great prima donna should be lik...

I do not, in short, myself believe it is in the least bit undignified to confess to having been crit...

The most influential of all educational factor is the conversation in a child's home.

The most influential of all educational factor is the conversation in a child's home.

My dad has been a big influence on me, because he's always had his own business. He really taught me...

The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know ...

The influence of the future on the past," said Morel enthusiastically, almost inaudibly.

Those words of hers had meant nothing - you could not dismiss [however] a human being so easily.

It was due to his tact, to his judgment, to his sympathetic manipulation of human beings that the at...

In my opinion, the state of mind of a community is always directly due to the influence of the man a...

Thought is yours only. Nobody can alter or influence the use you mean to make of it.

Our minds are susceptible to the influence of external voices telling us what we require to be satis...

Thou wert my guide philosopher and friend.

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.

I have been trying to point out that in our lives chance may have an astonishing influence and, if I...

To wait at Monte Cristo for the purpose of watching like a dragon over the almost incalculable richs...

The whole people contracts the habits and tastes of the magistrate.

The only way to neutralize the effect of public journals is to multiply them indefinitely.

and he imagines carsand rides them in his dreams,so lonely growing up amongthe imaginary automobiles...

Whoever controls the media, the images, controls the culture.

The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-trust. He g...

'The Nightmare Before Christmas' is my number one biggest influence artistically in every way.

My parents, especially my mother, were no influence on me whatsoever.

I was raised with no religious training or influence. Except the influence was to be a moral and eth...

As a coach you can influence the diet of your players. You can point out what is wrong.

Let us say that you might have become a telepathic cancer, a malignant mentality which in its inevit...

We may fondly imagine that we are impartial seekers after truth, but with a few exceptions, to which...

I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.

What Galileo and Newton were to the seventeenth century, Darwin was to the nineteenth.

I would not change places with the wealthiest and most influential person in the world. I would rath...

Your life is intricately woven into the lives of scores and hundreds of others around you. Consider ...

Apart from religious influence, the family is the most important unit of society.

God will never lead contrary to His word—so get acquainted with the Word of God, the Bible. Pray. He...

It doesn’t take great wealth or social influence to be faithful, but it does take obedience and endu...