Influence Quotes - Page 23

Never mistake the power of influence

When a plain-looking woman is loved, it is certain to be very passionately ; for either her influence on her lover is irresistible, or she has some secret and more irresistible charms than those of beauty.

True influence drives action, not just awareness.

It is said that the propriety even of old Cato often yielded to the exciting influence of the grape.

One truly affectionate soul in a family will evert a sweetening and harmonizing influence upon all its members.

The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the five hundred, he reaches the five hundred thousand.

You can then further enhance the process of writing by forming the clear intention that your Higher Self will influence your writing.

Television and comic books are, and continue to be, probably the biggest influence in my life. It's the biggest influence on everybody's life.

I read the script of [Woman Under the Influence ] 50 times. And I thought about it. And then I did it.

A Woman Under the Influence was my favorite. I loved doing that. And it was challenging.

Nothing I've ever written has been motivated by trying to impact or influence anybody.

Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.

American influence is not what it used to be.

I mean, I do consider that my music is pop because Ive been influenced by pop music my whole life; I grew up in the States and 80s pop music was my biggest influence.

I realized that influence was inextricably linked to impact — the more influence you had, the more impact you could create. . . . The ability to make things go viral felt like the closest that we could get to having a human superpower.

I think one of my biggest influences is Bette Davis. I've seen almost every one of her films, and she's been very inspiring to me.

Tom [Collins] was a great influence on me. He really pushed me...constantly demanded rewrites. And, as much as I despised them, it was the best thing that could have happened because he just wouldn't settle for less. It had to be right, and it had to be good.

I wouldn't change anything. Even the minor things or problems are what influence who I am.

Smokey Robinson is one of my heroes as a singer and songwriter, a major influence on my own music from the very start.

The mental never influences the physical. It is always the physical that modifies the mental, and when we think that the mind is diseased, it is always an illusion.

My dad was the biggest influence on my life because he was never boring.

It's hard to narrow down your influences in comedy.

Those who have had the most impact and influence throughout history and certainly the people who've had the most impact and influence on me personally have been basically entirely unaware of any such influence and made their chief concern their personal devotion and obedience, and the pleasure of God in the hidden things of their lives.

The priesthood holds consummate power. It can protect you from the plague of pornography-and it is a plague-if you are succumbing to its influence. If one is obedient, the priesthood can show how to break a habit and even erase an addiction. Holders of the priesthood have that authority and should employ it to combat evil influences.

Influence is the ability to move a person to a desired action.