Influential Quotes
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Management is a curious phenomenon. It is generously paid, enormously influential, and significantly devoid of common sense
You don't have to be a 'person of influence' to be influential. In fact, the most influential people in my life are probably not even aware of the things they've taught me.
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.
It takes us long to learn that prayer is more important than organization, more powerful than armies, more influential than wealth and mightier than all learning.
I don't want to be one of those easily forgotten people, so important at the time, so special, so influential, and so treasured, yet years later just a vague face and a distant memory.
We can help many people suffer less and realize a lot of happiness without being rich or influential. If love and compassion are in out hearts, every thought, word, and deed can bring about a miracle
He was not hip-hop's most gifted emcee. Still, Shakur may be the most influential and compelling rapper of them all, he was more than the sum of his artistic parts.
Books can change your life. Some of the most influential people in our lives are characters we meet in books.
My father was a psycho-analyst and I think that fact was very influential on my development as an artist. Trying to search beneath the surface of things for an unexpected sense of mystery.
There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. I look forward, with great anticipation, to contributing to its op-ed page
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.
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.
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.
Nurturing requires organization, patience, love, and work. Helping growth occur through nurturing is truly a powerful and influential role bestowed on women
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.
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.
Teaching is really a natural extension of one's practice--one wants to share something that's so influential and beautiful in one's life.
Early to bed and early to rise is a bad rule for anyone who wishes to become acquainted with our most prominent and influential people.
It is a terrible thought, to contemplate that an immense number of mediocre thinkers are occupied with really influential matters.
Could it be that my circle is largely black and that it is why I am influential in black circles but not in white circles?
A growing and increasingly influential movement of philosophers, ethicists, law professors and activists are convinced that the great moral struggle of our time will be for the rights of animals.
To be influential in tomorrow's world, to defend our values and our development model, France needs Europe and Europe needs France.
The largest and most influential houses chiefly demonstrate the aloofness of the French approach.
Most people have music in the center of their lives. I believe my work sheds light on how music affects us and why it is so influential.
I think more influential than Emily Dickinson or Coleridge or Wordsworth on my imagination were Warner Brothers, Merrie Melodies and Looney Tunes cartoons.
The science of systematics has long been affected by profound philosophical preconceptions, which have been all the more influential for being usually covert, even subconscious.
So far as musical pedagogy is concerned - And by extension of musical creation - Nadia Boulanger is the most influential person who ever lived
A lot of people influenced me as I was learning but probably Bing Crosby was the most influential, because I would hear his Christmas albums, which my parents played a lot.
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.
Anyone who grows up with parents who are very influential, there are cases where people run away from that if they have parents who are really lame.
The countless number of influential figures in American history who are of Caribbean heritage indicates the need to set aside a designated time to celebrate their contribution to our country.
In a repressive society, a writer can be deeply influential, but in a society that's filled with glut and repetition and endless consumption, the act of terror may be the only meaningful act.
I try not to listen to a lot of music when I'm starting the recording process, because it can be so subtly influential.
Parents can be very influential in designing those little creepy-crawlers that jump around in your mind for the rest of your life. It's the fear of not being good enough.
Blade Runner was an incredibly influential movie, in terms of the way that it envisioned what the future was going to look like.