Influence Quotes - Page 26

If you're from a certain generation, you basically learn to read with 'Peanuts.' It's sort of the template for the modern strip. Its influence ceased to be noticed because it's in everything.

Miles Davis is a major influence of mine in terms of the way that I am as a bandleader.

I really like Woody Allen, I really like John Cassavetes, and I really like movies that are super-naturalistic. I studied film studies in college, but I slept through all the movies, and I love film but I don't have a lot to reference. And so I don't know what my influences are and I don't know where this came from at all.

It's not just for its influence on us, but to knowknow that we can play a part in it, to understand the influence that we have outside our own existence.

More than ever before, consumers have the ability to unify their voices and coalesce their buying power to influence corporate behaviors.

Religion is the biggest influence on the intellect and the decadence of a people.

We're in partnership with technology, influencing each other in a dance. My loyalties are to our making and shaping technology to conform to our human values; and to confronting the hard job of figuring out what those values are, and how are we're going to get technology to do that.

What you see determines how you interpret the world, which in turn influences what you expect of the world and how you expect the story of your life to unfold.

I liked actions movies. Jean-Claude Van Damme was a major influence on me at that point in my life.

If you can influence the outcome, do the work. If you can't influence the outcome, ignore the possibility. It's merely a distraction.

If you're a marketer who doesn't know how to invent, design, influence, adapt, and ultimately discard products, then you're no longer a marketer. You're deadwood.

My oldest brother was a big influence on the films I watched as a kid.

My body was braille for the creeping influences.

As I've gotten older, I've found that I'm not afraid anymore to throw my influences into making a record.

I will absolutely say that Johnny Ramone was a huge influence on me. I'm a giant Ramones fan.

Any property may now be taken for the benefit of another private party, but the fallout from this decision will not be random. The beneficiaries are likely to be those citizens with disproportionate influence and power in the political process, including large corporations and development firms. As for the victims, the government now has license to transfer property from those with fewer resources to those with more. The Founders cannot have intended this perverse result.

When the original is well chosen and judiciously copied, the imitator often arrives at excellence which he could never have attained without direction; for few are formed with abilities to discover new possibilities of excellence, and to distinguish themselves by means never tried before.

Love has no great influences upon the sum of life.

Those who are in the power of evil habits must conquer them as they can; and conquered they must be, or neither wisdom nor happiness can be attained: but those who are not yet subject to their influence may, by timely caution, preserve their freedom.

Nothing is difficult, when gain and honour unite their influence.

John Faulkner's As I Lay Dying is very important to me as an influence. When I didn't know how to start Mr. Splitfoot, I just wrote the first line of As I Lay Dying instead and then continued on. It's dissolved in the text now, but it helped me start.

I like to believe that everyone is born with the same skill set, and that it is the influences that one comes upon.

When you look at our world, the truth is that we're all under the influence of politics.

I think The Beatles are the lasting influence on me, even more so than Dylan.

I use a combination of all my influences on my albums.