Influence Quotes

Nothing has existence unless you, I, or some living creature perceives it, and how it is perceived further influences that reality. Even time itself is not exempted from biocentrism.

The fact that some people are opposed on religious grounds mainly, well, that doesn't bother me as long as they're not allowed to influence other people by force or by whatever other means.

It's an attitude that has to do with curiosity, with wanting to know about things, wanting to be able to influence things, and wanting to be able to influence them in a way that's worthwhile

We are not influenced by the techniques or fashions of any other company.

Rarely do we realize that if we simply take time to marvel at life’s gifts and give thanks for them, we activate stunning opportunities to increase their influence in our lives.

Postman is a media analyst and his theory is that television doesn't influence our culture, but that it is our culture and the presidency and anything that relies on television.

Nobody can influence me, nobody. Still less a woman. Women are important in a man's life only if they're beautiful and charming and keep their femininity.

She had a womanly instinct that clothes possess an influence more powerful over many than the worth of character or the magic of manners.

How accidental our existences are, really, and how full of influence by circumstance.

I will accept your influence, guidance and direction if (and only if) I believe that you and I share similar goals.

Dreams have as much influences as actions.

Originality thrives in seclusion free of outside influences

Wilderness is two things-fact and feeling. It is a fund of knowledge and a spring of influence. It is the ultimate source of health-terrestrial and human.

There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.

Please repeat: influence is not popularity.

I feel that if you're in the public eye in any way that you do have a little bit of influence on people.

The length and breath of our influence on others are directly related to the depth of our concern for them.

It's good to find common ground with people. When you find common ground and you see things from other people's perspective, you can have a voice in their lives, you can have an influence.

A lot of my work reflects the incredible influence that America has had on contemporary African culture. Some of it's insidious, some of it's innocuous, some of it's invisible. It's there.

Escapism and wonder is influence. It makes you feel good, and that allows you to do things. You just keep on moving ahead, and you say, 'God, is this wonderful - do I appreciate it.'

Along with John Hughes, he's probably the biggest influence. Would be awesome not only to meet him; he's one person I'd also definitely like to work with.

Love is qualified as an attribute of that force, power or influence known as God. Thus as man makes application of love in his daily experience, he finds God a personal God.

I have no influence with the rising generation. All my arguments have failed to induce them to set bounds to their wants.

My life would have been different without Paul Stanley or Ace Frehley. They would have to be the greatest on my list as an influence to my life at 11 years old.

I am also well aware that literature only has a minimal influence on political disputes or economic crises in the world, but its significance to human beings is ancient.

It is no secret that the moon has no light of her own, but is, as it were, a mirror, receiving brightness from the influence of the sun.

One is more certain to influence men, to produce more effect on them, by absurdities than by sensible ideas.

Spiritual influence never coincided with material affluence.

Raised voices lower esteem. Hot tempers cool friendships. Loose tongues stretch truth. Swelled heads shrink influence. Sharp words dull respect.

We believe a scientist because he can substantiate his remarks, not because he is eloquent and forcible in his enunciation. In fact, we distrust him when he seems to be influencing us by his manner.

My inventing time is all done under the influence of aerobic exercise. Basically, I do all my thinking while I run.

In the end, I find my influences or inspirations where I can.

Freedom [should not be] conceived negatively as exemption from social influences or situational constraints. Rather...positively as the exercise of self-influence to bring about desired results.

Fundamental analysis seeks to establish how underlying values are reflected in stock prices, whereas the theory of reflexivity shows how stock prices can influence underlying values

Consciousness succumbs all too easily to unconscious influences, and these are often truer and wiser than our conscious thinking.

If you can influence the leaders, either with or without their conscious cooperation, you automatically influence the group which they sway.

There can be no autonomous agent with unitary interests called 'society' that exerts causal influence. This is a logical impossibility

The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence.

In the formative days of the Republic, the directing influence the Bible exercised upon the fathers of the Nation is conspicuously evident.

Time control directly influences the quality of play.

Women gain social influence through their roles as mothers, transmitters of culture, and parents for the next generation.

My mother was a huge influence on me. She was a living example of what a Christian should be. Her conviction, her discipline. She would rather see other people happy than herself.

As a coach you can influence the diet of your players. You can point out what is wrong.

If you believe that your thoughts originate inside your brain, do you also believe that television shows are made inside your television set?

We sometimes underestimate the influence of little things

Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives.

influence which is given on the side of money is usually against truth.

Deliberately seek the company of people who influence you to think and act on building the life you desire.

The only way on Earth to influence other people is to talk about what they want and show them how to get it.

Diplomacy means all the wicked devices of the Old World, spheres of influence, balances of power, secret treaties, triple alliances, and, during the interim period, appeasement of Fascism.