Top 1200 Biggest Influence Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

Oscar Peterson is the greatest living influence on jazz pianists today.

Obviously, the person who had most influence on my career was Ken Thompson.

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

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

Before you can ever inspire, motivate, or influence, you must connect first.

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

Experience has shown that the trade of the East is the key to national wealth and influence.

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

Influence is the single most important skill you can master in your lifetime.

If you realize early what your influence is, you can have a better understanding of what you are writing about.

That's the way it is with influence, you know; if you don't use it all the time, people will forget you have it.

I like the south of Spain, notably for the Moorish influence and the weather.

If I can add a bit of a calming influence on the guys, then I'll certainly try to.

Influence others positively by being a teacher, coach, counselor, or mentor.

You can't escape 'Star Trek' influence, especially characters you literally grew up with.

The biggest thing is getting the kid in a kart - they have to buy it and that's the biggest thing. You can go to a sporting store and buy a basketball for 30 bucks or a football for 30 bucks. You go buy a go-kart and that's 300 bucks. What are you going to get? A basketball or a go-kart?

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

With Kubrick and most film directors, they are in complete control, but one can influence them.

Putin has put Russia on a path to be a world power with global influence.

Michael [Douglas] was just leaving the TV series The Streets of San Francisco and he said, 'Dad, let me try it.' I thought, 'Well, if I couldn't make it...' So, I gave it to him and he got the money, the director and the cast. The biggest disappointment for me, I always wanted to play McMurphy. They got a young actor, Jack Nicholson. I thought, 'Oh God. He will be terrible.' Then I saw the picture and, of course, he was great in it! That was my biggest disappointment that turned out to be one of the things I'm most proud of because my son Michael did it. I couldn't do it, but Michael did it.

The Solyndra scandal occurred because of people with money who have influence and power.

Chick Corea was a great influence on me, musically, as I was growing up.

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

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

I work and perform in clubs all of the time, so naturally it's an influence for me.

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

Through it [literature] we know the past, govern the present, and influence the future.

I'm probably my biggest critic.

I'm not the biggest guy.

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

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.

A lot of times, projects happen just to influence the distributors or buyers.

The jet stream is the controlling influence over the world's weather systems.

George Carlin is an influence on a generation. He made me want to do comedy.

One always hopes that you're going to have influence and staying power, but you never know.

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

The prejudices of superstition are superior to all others, and have the strongest influence on the human mind.

It would be difficult to exaggerate the degree to which we are influenced by those we influence.

My mother was the total influence. My father was what we call a nomadic person; he was a wanderer.

No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.

I am inspired by show girls and Vegas. I was a cabaret performer, so that's where all that influence comes from.

Friends have a big influence over how you feel, think, and behave.

Ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize.

Pictures you have taken have an influence on those that you are going to make. That's life!

Influence is the platform God gives you to help others succeed.

Sir Alex Ferguson has been a massive influence on me.

All natural objects make a kindred impression, when the mind is open to their influence.

Once you know the emotional building blocks of anxiety, you can influence them.

The cardinal virtue of a teacher [is] to protect the pupil from his own influence.

I'm the biggest nerd.

If Iran gets a nuclear weapon, its influence and that of Hamas and Hezbollah are strengthened.

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

You should use your influence to help other platforms succeed.

You cannot get an influence from the cuisine of a country if you don't understand it. You've got to study it.

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

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

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

Discipline strengthens the mind so that it becomes impervious to the corroding influence of fear.

The person with the most certainty in a given situation will influence the other.

There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.