Influential Quotes

As the centuries pass, the evidence is accumulating that, measured by His effect on history, Jesus is the most influential life ever lived on this planet.

Rather than a big figure, I guess you could say I'm more of an influential minority symbol.

You are the most influential person you will talk to all day.

Bob Dylan is as influential as any artist that there has been.

I think, therefore I am ... not here.

The broader and more influential organisations of businessmen have acted to undermine the basic foundation of the free market system they purport to represent and defend.

Anything I wanted to do and achieve has not been influential in my life, but my failures have.

If I started thinking too much about how influential I've been, then I'd be more of a turd than I already am.

Whether I like it or not, I've become influential to people.

Power leads to more power, no matter what your racket, and not only were they rich and influential but they were smart as hell, too.

Behind the October Revolution there are more influential personalities than the thinkers and executors of Marxism.

Too often we elevate the inconsequential into the influential... by reacting without reflecting.

Troubadours have always been more important and influential than theologians and bishops

The most influential person in Europe in the last 20 to 30 years has been Margaret Thatcher. Without her we'd all be living in some French bloody unemployed republic.

I am so credible and so influential and so relevant that I will change things.

Of course former colonial powers are always more present and influential. They're the ones who need to defend the EU's values on the frontlines.

The human brain is a funny thing: it's very susceptible to tempo and melody. You put the right words to it, and it becomes very influential.

What is written is more influential than what is said.

It is a terrible thought, to contemplate that an immense number of mediocre thinkers are occupied with really influential matters.

The largest and most influential houses chiefly demonstrate the aloofness of the French approach.

The most influential of all the virtues are those which are the most in request for daily use. They wear the best, and last the longest.

In the pursuit of education, individual desire is more influential than institution, and personal faith more forceful than faculty.

Marlon Brando is the most influential movie actor of the century.

So far as musical pedagogy is concerned - And by extension of musical creation - Nadia Boulanger is the most influential person who ever lived

That was a time when I did love music, I couldn't get enough of what was going on. Maybe it was Nirvana that brought me back. I guess it was a comfort because something that sounded so right - and non-commercial - had become so influential, so immediately.