Tv Influence Quotes

Certainly my parents were a huge influence. They always expected the most out of all of us. And expected us to do our very best. I'm thankful to them for allowing me to do what I wanted to do.

My parents, especially my mother, were no influence on me whatsoever.

Advertising reflects the mores of society, but it does not influence them.

If God places a child before you, and you are too busy to wield either a positive or negative influence...you just did the later! You communicated that the child doesn't matter and isn't important.

God, how we get our fingers in each other's clay. That's friendship, each playing the potter to see what shapes we can make of each other.

Every single day in a marriage, we influence each other. It is a matter of am I going to have a positive influence or a negative influence?

There is one thing the power of God and the power of Satan have in common: Neither can influence us unless we allow them to.

When you wear a mask, it changes your outward appearance, but also has an influence on you, inside.

Controls them and subdues, transmutes, bereaves Of their bad influence, and their good receives.

Books are the best type of the influence of the past.

Irish is the prominent nationality in the family, but beyond that, I really don't know. I see a lot of artistic or creative influence coming through on my mother's side.

All the violence in videos and movies, you can't tell me that that wouldn't influence a disturbed person.

[Attributional] factors serve as conveyors of efficacy information that influence performance largely through their intervening effects on self-percepts of efficacy

Perceived self-efficacy influences the types of causal attributions people make for their performances

Humiliation and mental oppression by ignorant and selfish teachers wreak havoc in the youthful mind that can never be undone and often exert a baleful influence in later life.

Jesus as a concrete historical personality remains a stranger to our time, but His spirit, which lies hidden in His words, is known in simplicity, and its influence is direct.

Court-virtues bear, like gems, the highest rate, Born where Heav'n influence scarce can penetrate. In life's low vale, the soil the virtues like, They please as beauties, here as wonders strike.

And very often the influence exerted on a person's character by the amount of his income is hardly less, if it is less, than that exerted by the way in which it is earned.

The satiric ethos of Mad was a much bigger childhood influence.

The smaller nations can in fact exercise greater influence on disarmament negotiations than they have hitherto done.

Your real influence is measured by your treatment of yourself.

It is remarkable how great an influence our clothes have on our moral state.

Atheism. There is not a single exalting and emancipating influence that does not in turn become inhibitory.

Anyone who doubts that caffeine is a drug should read some of the prose composed under its influence.

None of my own experiences ever finds its way into my work. However, the stages of my life - motherhood, middle age, etc. - often influence my subject matter.

My grandmother was a huge influence on me and the fact that there was this very strong, rather formidable presence of women in my life has been an enormous value.

The good and the bad mix themselves so thoroughly in our thoughts, even in our aspirations, that we must look for excellence rather in overcoming evil than in freeing ourselves from its influence.

Lobbyist influence comes from access, not money.

The big turning point, really, was the Beatles' influence on American folk music, and then Roger took it to the next step, and then along came the Lovin' Spoonful and everybody else.

Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.

Every time a player goes out there, at least 20 people have some amount of influence on him. His mother has more influence than anyone. I know because I played, and I loved my mama.

Any area of my life for which I have no hope is under the influence of a lie.

The serene, silent beauty of a holy life is the most powerful influence in the world, next to the night of God.

Position yourself as a center of influence, the one who knows the movers and shakers. People will respond to that, and you'll soon become what you project.

It is still a surprise when people tell me that I've had an influence on them, particularly when it's someone I really respect.

My earliest influences were things I heard in my household.

Self-acceptance begins in infancy, with the influence of your parents and siblings and other important people.

A guy called Arthur Brown... was a big influence of mine... and also Ian Anderson from Jethro Tull.

And, well of course, Count Basie, and I think all of the black bands of the late thirties and early forties, bands with real players. They had an influence on everybody, not just drummers.

We ought always to try to influence others for good.

If I can help and influence girls who are going through body-image issues then I think that's amazing.

There is no doubt that, as a society, we have become blase about the importance of marriage as a stabilising influence and less inclined to prize it as a worthwhile institution.

Emulation and imitation can legitimately influence one's development, but ultimately the artist must find his own path - and be true to himself.

How am I influencing so many people on this stage rather than influencing the ones that I have back home?

I find it greatly disturbing that the Bush administration has used political and religious ideologies to influence national policy on science and medicine.

Parents have the glorious opportunity of being the most powerful influence, above and beyond any other, on the new lives that bless their homes.

My parents were divorced and I didn't grow up with my father, but I spent a lot of time around him, and his influence on me has been profound.

To succeed in life one needs two things -- influence and a lucky star.

It is almost impossible to convince people who are under the influence of ideological bigotry that whose whom they regard as belonging to the enemy species are human.

The importance and influence of books on me has been cumulative: the result of hearing and reading lots of stories about interesting people and places.