Influence Quotes - Page 12

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

Influence is about being genuine.

I've thought of doing many things in my life, under the influence of life, and I've never actually thought of straddling two carriages while they're moving.

A leader who produces other leaders multiples their influences.

Leadership is influence.

Can another help bring about a transformation in you? If he can, you are not transformed; you are merely dominated, influenced.

The interests of the United States are better served by demanding reform and seeing that reform takes place than by removing our influence from the U.N.

Spend the rest of your life doing what God prepared you to do.

In the beginning you must subject yourself to the influence of nature. You must be able to walk firmly on the ground before you start walking on a tightrope.

One of the expedients of party to acquire influence, within particular districts, is to misrepresent the opinions and aims of other districts.

Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

The influence of one's parents is powerful and permanent.

Leadership is influencing a community to follow Jesus.

It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.

The more we ignore our emotions, the more likely they are to wield a powerful influence over us.

That the state of knowledge in any country will exert a directive influence on the general system of instruction adopted in it, is a principle too obvious to require investigation.

In every religion there is an element of the supernatural, varying with the influence of pure reason over its devotees.

Education is only the most fully conscious of the channels whereby each generation influences the next.

My biggest mentor is myself because I've had to study, so that's been my biggest influence.

You are, in fact, a mashup of what you choose to let into your life. You are the sum of your influences. The German writer Goethe said, "We are shaped and fashioned by what we love."

My influences have been what I call my four Bs - the primary one being the blues, then Borges, Baraka, and Bearden.

Iago is the dominant trance state of our planet. It influences our relationships, our sexuality, our parenting, and our attempts to relax. It permeates corporate business, international politics, and our economic system.

Plato says a multitude can never philosophize and hence can never recognize the seriousness of philosophy or who really philosophizes. Attempting to influence the multitude results in forced prostitution.

Controls them and subdues, transmutes, bereaves Of their bad influence, and their good receives.

Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.