Influence Quotes - Page 30

I grew up with the Grand Ole Opry, Dottie West, Conway Twitty, Buck Owens... not realizing it was influencing me as much as it was.

I feel very conscious of my influences. T.H. White is very important for me.

Is it not obvious that the more complex an economy, the more certainly will governmental control of productive effort exert a retarding influence?

I am intrigued with scriptural mythology that tells us that God created a divine feminine presence to dwell amongst humanity. This concept has had a constant influence on the work. I have imagined her as ubiquitous, watchful, and often in motion. This work is, in effect, the photographic image of the invisible.

David Bowie is such a big influence to me. Everything about him as a person is intriguing to me.

Under the influence of music, it seems that I feel what I do not really feel, that I understand what I do not understand, that I do what I cannot do.

What motivates it is life. Life is everything. Life influences my music and brings it forth. Life is always changing, so I'm always hearing new music.

My big influences are piano artists like Billy Joel and Elton John.

It is well known that you can only manage what you measure, and as this is the job of professional accountants, it means they have huge influence on companies' governance.

I never had the influence of any other singer in my music, so I sounded like myself all the time.

Vladimir Putin would like to have more influence in Ukraine. He would like to have Ukraine always knocked slightly off balance so that they don't know what he might do next. He would like to demonstrate that he has more power than the Ukrainians do. And so certainly by making a frozen conflict situation where Ukraine never really has a definitive sense of sovereignty over its own territory, that's in Putin's interest.

We have to be concerned that Russia is also increasing its military influence in Egypt, potentially in Libya, also in Afghanistan.

I don't feel the pressure by outsiders. I'm not someone who's easily influenced by the public.

Stuart Pearce will be a massive influence but we also need ten others to be massive influences

The Iranians are very skilled terrorist, and we'd have to expect that they'd hit at us as hard as they could. Especially in Iraq, where they have a great deal of power and influence.

With Kubrick and most film directors, they are in complete control, but one can influence them.

In the end I'm in love with it [Western European easel painting]. And that's where a lot of the influence from the work comes from.

I wasn't allowed to listen to a lot of music growing up. It wasn't until I started to make my gospel record when I was around 14 or 15 that I started to be exposed to more outside influences.

You influence your surroundings every bit as much as they influence you.

I most certainly think we are influencing the way women think about themselves.

In Britain I'm sometimes regarded as a suspiciously Europeanized writer, who has this rather dubious French influence.

If I had created reality television I would have had a much greater influence, but then I would have had to KILL MYSELF.

Direct cinema is about simulating a reality in which you're not having the overwhelming influence that you really are having.

I try not to make any boundaries. I try to let all art influence me.

"Que No," Cafe's Tacvba latest single, has Sixties characteristics which we haven't done before, and "Matando" also has certain elements we hadn't come across. For me, it's difficult to say "it's this influence" or "it comes from there." Maybe it's easy for one to listen externally and identify influences.