Top 546 Influential Quotes & Sayings

Scholes is very influential for England at international level.

Whether I like it or not, I've become influential to people.

Heidegger wrote a book called Was Ist Das Ding - What Is a Thing? which was kind of interesting and influential to me, as a matter of fact. It's a small paperback, which I read. It's about the nature of thingness; what is it? It's a very penetrating analysis of that, and I think a rather influential book. I know other artists who have read it and come up with it.

Music was very influential on me as a kid.

During times like these, the wise are influential.

I think 'In The Heat Of The Night' was one of the most influential films on me. Looking back now, I can see how influential it was on my screenwriting because here you have what looks to be a crime procedural, and it's actually a study in race and loneliness, and a perception of an era.

You are the most influential person you will talk to all day.

Every hour of every day, at every level in every organization, influential people succeed and non-influential people don't.

The media was completely influential in the rise and fall of Bonnie and Clyde.

The most influential of all educational factors is the conversation in a child's home.

Jesus gave the world its most influential movement.

In the past, the British had signally failed to build an effective structure of royal authority and administration in their American colonies. As a result, no possibility existed of soothing and winning over influential and talented Americans, in the way that influential and talented Scotsmen were increasingly being won over, by giving them increased access to state employment.

Uber riders are the most affluent, influential people in their cities.

John Bonham was probably the most influential in terms of playing style and timing.

I think the children of Hollywood are more influential than the parents.

We realize our messages are influential.

My family and parents were very influential in my skating career.

Anything I wanted to do and achieve has not been influential in my life, but my failures have.

One of my biggest and most influential was 'The Golden Girls.' That show, I remember specific episodes.

In the world of comics, Jack Kirby and Will Eisner may have been more influential artists, but Joe Kubert was its most influential man. Even if he were to be remembered solely for his body of illustration work, he’d still be one of the greats, but by opening the Kubert School in 1976, he was able to personally mentor and educate literally thousands of successful artists who owe their careers to his teachings.

Music is definitely influential on how I approach my scenes.

The Family is the oldest and arguably most influential religious political organization in Washington.

Men always want to be terribly influential, but I see that as somewhat external. Do I imagine myself being influential? No. I want to understand. And if others understand--in the same sense that I have understood--that gives me a sense of satisfaction, like feeling at home.

Music bears a great responsibility because it is so influential. Everybody listens to music. It is a very influential tool. To me, it is very important to the world... music is... to being... to life.

People listen to The Beatles, but while they were muscially influential, they weren't culturally influential in quite the same way. You can go into the back of beyond in a little Indian village, and they will listen to Bob Marley. But they're not going to be listening to The Beatles or The Rolling Stones.

Public opinion can be influential, the media can be influential.

Music is very influential to my writing, as are theater and film.

I want to be influential as a legislator.

I know I'm the most influential.

The largest and most influential houses chiefly demonstrate the aloofness of the French approach.

Social media is so influential now.

Eddie Van Halen was probably the most influential.

Marlon Brando is the most influential movie actor of the century.

Online media is increasingly influential in fashion.

What is written is more influential than what is said.

Michelle Obama, and any woman behind an influential man, has always been there.

I'm not even the most influential person in my own house.

A single question can be more influential than a thousand statements.

There are three elements to perceived popularity. A student has to be visible, recognizable and influential.

I am so credible and so influential and so relevant that I will change things.

Too often we elevate the inconsequential into the influential... by reacting without reflecting.

The most influential time in my life musically was definitely those piano lessons.

Cinema is arguably the 20th century's most influential art form.

One of the most influential women of the 20th century? Well, that may be overdoing it. When one thinks of really influential women, my mind turns to Margaret Thatcher, Golda Meir, ... some of the true political leaders in their own right.

You can't erase Bill Cosby's contributions. That's the conflict. He's one of the most influential comedians of all time, and 'The Cosby Show' is one of the most influential sitcoms ever. When I watched as a kid, I wanted Cliff to be my dad. Everybody did.

It's not about being the biggest or the place with the most pins in a map. We want to be the most influential. We talk about trying to build the most influential agency in the world.

Everything I listen to is influential in some way.

I suppose my father was more influential in my starting to play the guitar.

Human kind has little or nothing to do with the recent temperature changes. We are not that influential

It is possible to argue that the really influential book is not that which converts ten millions of casual readers, but rather that which converts the very few who, at any given moment, succeed in seizing power. Marx and Sorel have been influential in the modern world, not so much because they were best-sellers (Sorel in particular was not at all a widely read author), but because among their few readers were two men, called respectively Lenin and Mussolini.

I am so honored to be named as one of Time's 100 most influential people.

Rousseau was mad but influential; Hume was sane but had no followers.

Bob Dylan is as influential as any artist that there has been.

Sometimes the most influential thing we can do is listen.

Well Sid Pollack was... He was I would say probably, probably the most influential on me.

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.

If any influential nation had the great spiritual strength to lay down its arms and appear with clean hands before the world, the world would be changed. I see no evidence that any influential nations has such great spiritual strength and courage. Therefore disarmament will be a slow process, motivated by the wish to survive.

William Regal has been the most influential person in my entire career.

Being influential is not the mark of a great book.

A girl's father is the first man in her life, and probably the most influential.