Influence Quotes

In these negotiations we are not a helpless object, although great world powers are involved. We play an active role and try to influence our destiny; we have our own trump cards and we use them.

I came from a broken home, so my mom was a major influence in my life.

Musicians have the power to influence people and along with movie makers, they can reach and influence more people than any group of people, more than scientists and certainly more than politicians.

The Ability to influence people without irritating them is the most profitable art known to man.

If only I had the influence with my wife and children that I have in some other quarters!

Of the influence of Mr. Mill's personal character on those who were his political associates, it is difficult to speak too warmly.

I'm aware of the luck in [BABIP], but at the same time, you can't directly influence it. You can just keep mixing your patterns, executing and locating, That's the human element of this game.

He who influences the thought of his times influences the times that follow.

My personal influence in the Revolutionary Governing Council is such that the dictatorship of the proletariat is firmly established, since the masses are backing me.

It would be difficult to exaggerate the degree to which we are influenced by those we influence.

Freud was one of the greatest influences on me. He made myth into psychiatry, and I've been trying to turn it back into myth again.

Jazz has always been a melting pot of influences and I plan to incorporate them all.

It is Billie Holiday who was, and still remains, the greatest single musical influence on me.

It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people's lives.

Leadership requires using power to influence the thoughts and actions of other people.

I had a lot of very religious influences - Christian religious.

Seeing TVXQ's music and stage makes me feel touched, and they're a very good influence on us.

The influence of mystery is the greatest influence.

Public influence is the real government of the world.

It is easy to see that the ego is that part of the id which has been modified by the direct influence of the external world.

Great is the issue at stake, greater than appears, whether a man is to be good or bad. And what will any one be profited if, under the influence of money or power, he neglect justice and virtue?

Everything is being transformed under the magic influence of science and technology. And every day, if we want to live with open eyes, we have a problem to study, to resolve.

Influence is to be measured, not by the extent of surface it covers, but by its kind.

There has been a real influence on young people, whose travel is experiential. For them, their values change when their experiences change; travel is like a university without walls.

Conclusions arrived at through reasoning have very little or no influence in altering the course of our lives.

If you could help millions of people, you can certainly make millions of dollars. I try to influence everyone I know to be a giver because the person that benefits most by giving is the giver.

I've always said to people that auteurism is nice, but it's hypothetical, and gradually you learn how much or how little influence different directors had.

Homosexuality is Satan's diabolical attack upon the family that will not only have a corrupting influence upon our next generation, but it will also bring down the wrath of God upon America.

When I think of 'influence', I think of 'influenza', like somebody's picked up a germ.

There is no influence so powerful as that of the mother, but next in rank in efficacy is that of the schoolmaster.

It does influence every part of your life and it influences every decision you make. (speaking about faith)

SORCERY, n. The ancient prototype and forerunner of political influence. It was, however, deemed less respectable and sometimes was punished by torture and death.

All I can do is take influences from where I was raised.

Metaphors hide in plain sight, and their influence is largely unconscious. We should mind our metaphors, though, because metaphors make up our minds.

Without love, there can be no connection, no future, and no success together.

If you seek to serve people more than to gain power, you will not only serve people, you will gain influence.

Do It Under the Influence Yourself! That's what we're shooting for! Get drunk and make your dreams come true.

Punk's influence on music, movies, art, design and fashion is no longer in doubt. It is used as the measurement for what is cool.

The fruit of the Spirit is the natural produce of his gracious inward influence, the spontaneous and inevitable result of his uniting us to Jesus Christ.

Effective negotiators have a style that those whom they are trying to influence, relate to and admire.

I fully agree with General Washington, that we must protect this young nation from an insidious influence and impenetration. The menace, gentlemen, is the Jews.

I like the influence of the macabre, but I don't believe in ghosts.

Whatever we do or fail to do will influence the course of history.

Leadership is the ability to influence people and motivate them to do what needs to be done to accomplish a goal, vision, or mission.

Repeated similar experiments with adjacent colors will show that any ground subtracts its own hue from colors which it carries and therefore influences.

Godzilla. The big, green G-man has had a profound influence on my creative endeavors and imagination since I was blueberry-avoiding kid.

I've always recognised that I have influence, whether I like it or not, and that I can use it to do something good.

The great trouble with you Americans is that you are still under the influence of that second-rate - shall I say third-rate? - mind, Karl Marx.

Unconsciously, perhaps, we treasure the power we have over people by their regard for our opinion of them, and we hate those upon whom we have no such influence.

Influence comes out of the work that you've done and the things you've stood for. Influence and power shouldn't be given to just anybody who wants them.