Influence Quotes - Page 27

Im not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers.

My one concern is that Hu Jintao may overestimate how much power China has in Pyongyang. They have - they do have influence, and they do have companies, and they do have economic relationships that could make life much more difficult in the north. Their balancing act is, "How much worse can we make it in the north without creating that which scares us more than anything, which is a collapse in the north." And then what happens to all those nuclear weapons. So they're going to work very hard to avoid that.

Orwell has always been a huge influence on me.

I've always liked country music. It's a certain aspect of America that goes back to the British Isles and the influence is very native to America.

[Frank] Sinatra, to everyone, even Tony Bennett, was such a huge influence because he had mastered not only music, but film and radio.

Milliseconds influence centuries.

American English is the greatest influence of English everywhere.

I've always said my biggest influence is my, just, the last work I did, the last piece I made.

Agnes Martin is a big influence in my work actually, when I first saw her, these fine grids.

I'd say the music influences the writing - the music and rhythm of the prose - much more than the writing influences the music.

Your drive to produce hard-edged opinions stoked by hostility is likely a sign that you've been brainwashed by the pedestrian influences of pop nihilism.

We have to be even more Christocentric because of the influence of Islam today.

We best serve our Father in Heaven by righteously influencing others and serving them.

The only way you can estimate environmental influences is by measuring them.

As for the influence on my writing,music has definitely influenced how I write. That idea of cadence, repetition, all those elements appear throughout my writing. Drumming has definitely had a huge influence on the way I write, too. Has definitely tuned my ear to rhythm. After I've written something, I'll go through it repeatedly, carefully listening to the construction of the words, seeing, hearing how they flow.

I was not going to surrender to the status quo and corporate insistence that ordinary people have no power and influence.

The philosophers talk across the centuries exclusively to one another, hermetically sealed from any influences derived from non-philosophical discourse.

Hollywood was a good influence because I was madly in love with films, and the films had a direct influence on me.

The everyday choices I make regarding money will influence the very coarse of eternity.

The television industry claims they are only reflecting society with their programming and have no influence on behavior. If that is the case then why do businesses spend millions on TV ads that have no influence?

Throw a stone into the stream and the ripples that propagate themselves are the beautiful type of all influence.

For, truly speaking, whoever provokes me to a good act or thought has given me a pledge of his fidelity to virtue,--he has come under the bonds to adhere to that cause to which we are jointly attached.

Really, all things and persons are related to us, but according to our nature, they act on us not at once, but in succession, andwe are made aware of their presence one at a time. All persons, all things which we have known, are here present, and many more than we see; the world is full.

All natural objects make a kindred impression, when the mind is open to their influence.

The whole constitution of property on its present tenures, is injurious, and its influence on persons deteriorating and degrading.