Influence Quotes

Coming from Haiti and growing up in Brooklyn, there's a lot of European influence when I get dressed up. I wear a lot of fitted suits, elegant cuts; I think it's cool to mash up a lot of different looks.

I never had the influence of any other singer in my music, so I sounded like myself all the time.

I was raised with a huge Armenian influence, always hearing stories of Armenia, celebrating Armenian holidays.

More and more people in my country recognise the dangers of having their governors appointed by Putin and having no influence in parliament because Parliament today is also following instructions from Kremlin and no longer represents its people.

When Hegel later became a man of influence' he insisted that the Jews should be granted equal rights because civic rights belong to man because he is a man and not on account of his ethnic origins or his religion.

Bowie's been a huge influence on me.

I think I'm more influenced, just in general, not by blues artists, but more by stuff from Curtis Mayfield, Stevie Wonder. Stevie Wonder is probably my biggest musical influence of all. And Donny Hathaway.

More than ever before, consumers have the ability to unify their voices and coalesce their buying power to influence corporate behaviors.

The leverage and influence social media gives citizens are rapidly spreading into the business world.

My father was an exceptionally strong influence on me.

Dreams have as much influence as actions.

Leadership is influence.

I don't like to think about being an influence. It's embarrassing.

Things get so sloppy when you're under the influence.

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

I believe my father has and always will be the strongest influence in my life, as he has guided me on many paths.

There is no influence like the influence of habit.

If you're from a certain generation, you basically learn to read with 'Peanuts.' It's sort of the template for the modern strip. Its influence ceased to be noticed because it's in everything.

I'm a spiritual person, I'm an America, I'm a Jew, and all of those things influence every breath I take, everywhere I go.

To this day the Arab influence is evident in southern Italy, northern Africa and, above all, in Spain.

The failure of Christianity in the areas west from Sicily was even greater, and was increased by the spread of Arab outlooks and influence to that area, and especially to Spain.

We all have very personal relationships to what happened on 9/11 and the events after tracking Osama bin Laden. Nobody can escape from the influence of that.

We love the ability of the people to influence the actions of decision-makers, of lawmakers and presidents to be removed from or elevated to office by the will of voters, and of the community to connect amongst diverse populations through the ballot box.

The things that concern us during the day are going to influence what we experience during the night.

Whenever it's suggested that our sponsors have some kind of influence or control of what we cover in some kind of censorship through financial pressure, it's rubbish. That's never happened.

The Italian prose tale had begun to exercise that influence as early as Chaucer's time: but circumstances and atmosphere were as yet unfavourable for its growth.

That's the trouble with trying to influence an undecided voter. First you have to find one.

I never like to get political, but when you have the ability, through your media, to influence a large mass of people, I would want to be a part of the evolving cycle of progress vs. keeping things the way that they are.

Doolittle was a major influence on the Seattle grunge scene, which emerged in the early 1990s.

Sergio Leone was a big influence on me because of the spaghetti westerns.

There is incredible power in the arts to inspire and influence.

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

There would never have been a British Ballet without Diaghilev. He had a wonderful influence.

There was a writer in the '20s called Christopher Morley, who I remember a little bit of, who had some influence on me, but I couldn't tell you what it was.

I influence anybody who is able to get through the chaos of my first impression.

The U.S. along with China, Japan, South Korea and Russia has an important role to play in containing North Korea's nuclear ambitions and exerting all the influence we can possibly exert.

The United States form a young republic, a confederacy which ought ever to be cemented by a union of interests and affection, under the influence of those principles which obtained their independence.

If you examine this, I think that you will find that it's the mechanics of Japanese architecture that have been thought of as the direct influence upon our architecture.

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.

In the latter half of the last century the impact of the expanding influence of Western culture and economic system brought about in China a severe conflict.

Warhol was definitely an inspiration when I was younger. I wouldn't quantify his sort of influence. I've been influenced by nature and science, and I've been influenced by people like Ernst and Rauschenberg, Cornell and Bosch and Bruegel, by writers like Haruki Murakami to Pablo Neruda to Artaud.

Influence is like a savings account. The less you use it, the more you've got.

I think the fact that I created something and had an enormous influence is indisputable.

Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.

American influence is not what it used to be.

But in terms of satire and comedy, our biggest and earliest influence was Mad magazine.

A memoir should have some uplifting quality, inspiring or illuminating, and that's what separates a life story that can influence other people.

I am the worst influence. If you can't handle your vices, then I am the Devil.

Well I think everything up to this point that I've been exposed to in my life has had an influence on me in some way, shape, or form even if I'm not conscious of it. So I definitely think that my studies in wu-shu, kung-fu, karate, kenpo, taikwando, all of that stuff certainly has an affect. I don't think I follow any discipline traditionally.

I am constantly being told that I have been a big influence for many people, including other musicians.

My dad's Irish music was such a huge influence.

There are a couple of teachers I have had without whose influence I would not be as happy with who I am.

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

In Britain I'm sometimes regarded as a suspiciously Europeanized writer, who has this rather dubious French influence.

I'll put it frankly - Britain has more influence in China than Norway or Switzerland, with all respect for the other countries.

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

The influence of Paris, for instance, is now minimal. Yet a lot is written about Paris fashion.

Children have in the past and continue to influence policy makers.

There's no point in worrying about things you can't influence.

I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body: they transmit movement to it.

Even with Extreme, I don't think you have a choice but to sort of have somewhat of an influence of the times.

The piece that had a large influence on me was Turangalila.

The thing about influence is that any composer worth anything will give you the same names.

In my opinion, Lenny Bruce was more of an influence on Zappa's satirical lyric's than anyone that I know of.

A lot of the vocal music I've been doing recently has been quite clubby. But that's mainly because I've had more time to go to clubs, and that normally breeds that kind of influence.

In terms of writing more club tracks, writing more electronically influenced - I feel like it was all electronically influenced, but now that influence has come to me in a different way.

Furthermore, the study of the present surroundings is insufficient: the history of the people, the influence of the regions through which it has passed on its migrations, and the people with whom it came into contact, must be considered.

My priority is to give the United States the kind of influence it should have.

I'm proud of my mentors. Ray Charles is the strongest influence on me as a singer.

Curiosity is natural to the soul of man and interesting objects have a powerful influence on our affections.

Doonesbury had the requisite and overwhelming influence in 1980, as it did on any college cartoonist who was paying attention, of course.

During this period, I became interested in how the new techniques of cloning and sequencing DNA could influence the study of genetics and I was an early and active proponent of the Human Genome Sequencing Project.

I'd begun reading Crumb shortly before that, and other underground stuff, so that was an influence to some degree. Of course the Marvel and DC comics, they had been my main interests in my teenage years.

Yeah, Dizzee Rascal is a huge influence on what I'm doing. I learnt a lot from him even though he's younger than me.

The companies that are the most influential and most successful are the ones that care about impact and the influence they have on the world.