Influential Quotes - Page 2

Adults are naturally most conscious of directing the conduct of others when they are immediately aiming so to do. As a rule, they have such an aim consciously when they find themselves resisted; when others are doing things they do not wish them to do. But the more permanent and influential modes of control are those which operate from moment to moment continuously without such deliberate intention on our part.

I try not to listen to a lot of music when I'm starting the recording process, because it can be so subtly influential.

The most influential time in my life musically was definitely those piano lessons.

I am so honored to be named as one of Time's 100 most influential people.

Human kind has little or nothing to do with the recent temperature changes. We are not that influential

Eddie Van Halen was probably the most influential.

Brian Burke as we now know was the most influential person in the West Australian Labor Party, if you could attract him, you're in business.

In my life the most influential people are people who are sort of brought to me, as opposed to people I seek out.

I've been too productive for too long, and despite what anybody wants to strip away from me, I am influential. I am.

My favorite parable for living a positive and influential life is the Golden Rule: Do unto others what you would have them do unto you.

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is the most influential woman in Washington - for what she has accomplished and for what she may yet do: win the presidency.

In the past some of the most influential Jewish, Christian and Muslim theologians, such as Maimonides, Aquinas and Ibn Sina, made it clear that it was very difficult to speak about God, because when we confront the ultimate, we are at the end of what words or thoughts can do.

Any observations from the Moon or a sense of realising this or that about the greater meaning of things wasn't as influential for me as the experience of coming back and dealing with being a person who's been to the Moon.

Sometimes the most influential thing we can do is listen.

It is now no mystery that some quite influential 'philosophers' were 'mentally' ill.

I'm convinced that some of our greatest and most influential teachers show up in our lives disguised as people we resent or even despise.

Donald Trump is so universally despised, because he so often says the wrong thing and has absolutely no moral code outside of just wanting to be powerful and influential.

Das Kapital, I think, is very difficult to read, and for me, it was not very influential.

Obviously the original 'Tron' was a very influential movie for its time, so to be a part of the second one is very exciting.

Without hesitation, I place Freud among the heroes. He dispossessed the Jewish people of the greatest and most influential of all heroes-Moses.

At the time it really was the social women, the society ladies. There were the cool girls, like Aerin Lauder - everyone loved to see what Aerin was wearing. Carolyn Bessette was very much in that time period. Calvin [Kleine] was very influential in the '90s.

Scholes is very influential for England at international level.

I was never really that aware of commercial things. The stuff that was really influential to me were bands like the Misfits or the Birthday Party, or things like that. If someone said, "Do you love Judas Priest?" - I never really even had a Judas Priest record. That's not what I grew up with. That wasn't really my scene, you know? That's why White Zombie never really fit. I still don't fit.

Michelle Obama, and any woman behind an influential man, has always been there.

Online media is increasingly influential in fashion.