Influence Quotes - Page 34

The piece that had a large influence on me was Turangalila.

If I were to categorize what I sing, I have many different influences, and a lot of them are from back in time.

It costs a great deal of money to do a musical, and the more money involved, the more big business influences the artform.

As a confirmed individualist I certainly do not wish to underrate the influence of the individual, for the masses do not lead the individual; rather, in the individual is vested the capacity to lead the masses.

Cheerfulness has a directly beneficial influence upon health.

For since it is impossible for a created monad to have a physical influence on the inner nature of another, this is the only way in which one can be dependent on another.

No, generally I think influence is used as a nice word for plagiarism.

The things I write are combinations of all of the people that have been influences to me.

[Ted Denson] is sort of a reluctant leader. He didn't try to flex his influence. He's just eminently followable.

Most of my influences are turn-of-the-century.

Poetry has a small audience, but a large influence.

Influence is like water. Always flowing somewhere.

The influence of blogging is overall a very positive force in the media.

Man cannot influence in this respect the atomic forces of Nature.

A person without much power is easily influenced by others, whether they are physical or non-physical beings. Their life is easily ruined. They are blown around like a leaf in the wind.

The ability to connect and communicate is one of the most powerful, and you cannot find anyone who has been truly successful in life that doesn't have that ability because you've got to motivate, and you've got to -frankly, you have to influence.

C.S. Lewis had a big influence on me in this spiritual realm - this sort of sense of longing. A longing for a knowledge that is just outside of our reach, a knowledge for a spiritual connection.

I love Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton. I also love more cerebral poets like H.D. and Emily Dickinson. My parents subscribed to a monthly poetry periodical, and as a teenager I was introduced to Denise Levertov, who was an influence.

If the influence of luck is a delusion, then all I can say is that the delusion is virtually universal.

I guess subconsciously that all the great people you work with have an influence on you.

Our own species evolved under the influence of group selection, as Darwin emphasized when he discussed the evolution of altruism.

So long as the serpent continues to crawl on the ground, the primary influence of woman will be indirect.

One of my biggest musical influences is definitely Ella Fitzgerald as a vocalist.

I think when you're a writer most of what you read influences you. The rhythms get into your head.

People in love, in whom every sense is open, cannot beat off the influence of a place.