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?
If you wanna talk about influence, man, then you've got to realize that influence is not influence. It's simply someone's idea going through my new mind.
Success will not happen through (os.mo.sis), osmosis.
Sometimes I hope that through osmosis I might get a workout - just by wearing the clothes.
Acting is not an intellectual process for me. It comes from my heart. It's this strange netherworld of osmosis where I simply become.
I think the best way to become a character is by osmosis as opposed to thinking directly about stuff.
I think I just had it by osmosis: an appreciation of Duke Ellington before I really even knew who he was.
The aim of being a good designer is to have an influence. If you design furniture or lifestyle, you should influence the way people evolve globally. It's good to have an influence.
"There is no such thing as a good influence, Mr. Gray. All influence is immoral — immoral from the scientific point of view." "Why?" "Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul."
I wanted to absorb the comedy world by osmosis. But I really loved kind of throwing myself in head first.
I surround myself with books, kind of hoping the vast knowledge will just seep into my mind through osmosis.
It was never like I had to go, 'I am gay.' Slowly, almost by osmosis, by the way I was behaving, it became obvious and accepted.
I am probably the last of a generation able to gain an education in country music by osmosis, by sitting in a '64 Ford banging the buttons on the radio.
While everyone exercises influence, the size and strength of our influence depends upon our effort. No one leads well without paying the price of discipline. As we push ourselves to grow and to learn, we enlarge our sphere of influence.
I really don't see any influence of my work on any artists. But I do think I've had an influence on drawings' being shown. I've had an influence on the economics of it.