Top 1200 Sphere Of Influence Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Sarah Silverman has always been a huge influence on my comedy.

No, generally I think influence is used as a nice word for plagiarism.

Those who exert the first influence upon the mind have the greatest power.

In my career, Diego Maradona had the biggest influence on me.

The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.

No reproof or denunciation is so potent as the silent influence of a good example.

Our own lives always influence the way we write.

The influence of mankind on climate is trivially true and numerically insignificant.

Like buried treasures, the outposts of the universe have beckoned to the adventurous from immemorial times. Princes and potentates, political or industrial, equally with men of science, have felt the lure of the uncharted seas of space, and through their provision of instrumental means the sphere of exploration has made new discoveries and brought back permanent additions to our knowledge of the heavens.

I'm always sort of looking for projects that I can sort of put out into the world, into the public sphere, and to somehow cause an effect. I want to be able to create projects that sort of are going to make people think and think in this sort of magical, sort of fantastical way.

I could start with Mandelstam, who was a huge influence on my early writing.

We have to be even more Christocentric because of the influence of Islam today.

The Jews must realize that their influence in Germany has disappeared for all time.

We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end. When we think to attach ourselves to any pointand to fasten to it, it wavers and leaves us; and if we follow it, it eludes our grasp, slips past us, and vanishes for ever. Nothing stays for us.

I have no hesitation in saying that although the American woman never leaves her domestic sphere and is in some respects very dependent within it, nowhere does she enjoy a higher station. And if anyone asks me what I think the chief cause of the extraordinary prosperity and growing power of this nation, I should answer that it is due to the superiority of their women.

I've been as bad an influence on American literature as anyone I can think of.

Sir Alex Ferguson has been a massive influence on me.

Power exhibits itself under two distinct forms,--strength and force,--each possessing peculiar qualities, and each perfect in its own sphere. Strength is typified by the oak, the rock, the mountain. Force embodies itself in the cataract, the tempest, and the thunder-bolt.

The new sound-sphere is global. It ripples at great speed across languages, ideologies, frontiers and races. The economics of this musical Esperanto is staggering. Rock and pop breed concentric worlds of fashion, setting and life-style. Popular music has brought with it sociologies of private and public manner, of group solidarity. The politics of Eden come loud.

Exercising has a calming influence on me. It's almost like a meditation.

Blair overestimated his ability to influence U.S. decisions on Iraq.

Don't feel guilty if you don't immediately love your stepchildren as you do your own, or as much as you think you should. Everyoneneeds time to adjust to the new family, adults included. There is no such thing as an "instant parent." Actually, no concrete object lies outside of the poetic sphere as long as the poet knows how to use the object properly.

It is easier to influence strong than weak characters in life.

I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.

No star ever rose or set without influence somewhere.

Man is at his best when complimented by the influence of a good woman.

My dad was the biggest influence on my life because he was never boring.

Lyrically and melodically, Drake was definitely a big influence of mine.

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

When Star Wars became a hit and I had a chance to make the other movies, I had to figure out a way to bring Ben back, but a lot of the issues he had to deal with were carried by Yoda. In a sense, I combined Yoda with the spirit of Ben. I wanted Ben to have some kind of influence, but I didn't want it to be a direct influence where he could help Luke. So Ben has managed to keep his identity after he became one with the Force. One of the things he was doing on Tatooine besides watching over Luke was learning how to keep his identity after he became part of the Force.

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.

Athletes have all the influence in the world. Everyone wants to hear what you have to say.

It's pretty hard to measure influence of written or visual material.

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

I want to be a a good influence to other people and in the music scene.

I like to compete in a suit that will help me save me time and energy by reducing drag, so I race in Aqua Sphere's Energize Compression Speedsuit. The speedsuit also compresses the core muscles to damp vibration, which lessens muscle fatigue, leaving me fresher for the bike and run.

I leave everyone to have their own opinions of my music and my influence - or not - on others.

The Stones were a big influence on me and the Beatles, obviously.

The NBA has made a real issue about really making these superstars the premium that everybody wants to go to. That's their calling card and their marketing tool. But the coaches at the other end of the sphere are trying to make everybody on the team, even nine, 10, 11, 12, just as important, and have a real role that's meaningful.

Man cannot influence in this respect the atomic forces of Nature.

Politics? Boring? Politics is history on the wing! What other sphere of human activity calls forth all that is most noble in men's souls, and all that is most base? Or has such excitement? Or more vividly exposes our strengths and weaknesses? Boring? You might as well say that life itself is boring!

The nineties as a pop cultural sphere was a really fertile time for feminism that was grounded and located in popular culture. I'm talking about before the Spice Girls - Sassy Magazine, riot grrrl, the Beastie Boys, Nirvana. You had this alternative culture that was very much speaking up on behalf of women and in favor of women.

I don't think I came to music. I think music came to me - or was already embedded when I came into this sphere, this realm, this Earth.

It's much cheaper to influence elections than it is to go to war.

When you raise your opinion of yourself and what you are capable of it has a decided influence on what you do.

Syrian influence has not ended yet. It is going to be a very long path.

My older kids are fantastic people. It can't be the result of my influence on them.

Stereotypes should never influence policy or public opinion.

We have come by curious ways To the Light that holds the days; We have sought in haunts of fear For that all-enfolding sphere: And lo! it was not far, but near. We have found, O foolish-fond, The shore that has no shore beyond. Deep in every heart it lies With its untranscended skies; For what heaven should bend above Hearts that own the heaven of love?

The beautiful 1940s women were a strong influence for me.

It is of course daunting to make ones public debut in a new format, particularly with a well loved character, and in a medium as much scrutinized by the web-o-sphere as comics... But I had the comfort of having great editors at IDW (Chris Ryall and Denton Tipton) and I knew whatever I wrote, Ilias would make me look good.

I feel like I influence more than just rap.

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

Saudi Arabia has historically attempted to influence politics in Beirut.

A given circle cannot be so true that a truer one cannot be found; and the movement of a sphere at one moment is never precisely equal to its movement at another, nor does it ever describe two circles similar and equal, even if from appearances the opposite may seem true.

I don't believe in an afterlife. You live on in the people you influence during your lifetime.

Religion is such a belief of the Bible as maintains a living influence on the heart.

Capitalism means free enterprise, sovereignty of the consumers in economic matters, and sovereignty of the voters in political matters. Socialism means full government control of every sphere of the individuals life and the unrestricted supremacy of the government in its capacity as central board of production management.

It's important to make teens realize the influence they have over others.

The truth has no need to be uttered to be made apparent, and ... one may perhaps gather it with more certainty, without waiting for words and without even taking any account of them, from countless outward signs, even from certain invisible phenomena, analogous in the sphere of human character to what atmospheric changes are in the physical world.