Top 1200 Great Influence Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes.

(Because being assaulted with maxi pads is a great way to win friends and influence people.)

In my opinion, the style of a player should not be formed under the influence of any single great master.

The further you go in life, the more you realize what you're going to leave this Earth. It's not going to be, 'It was a great platform. It was great to win the Super Bowl,' but really and truly what you're going to leave on this Earth is the influence on others.

I'm not a politician, She says evenly. If I want to be one, I'll run for office. Susan Sarandon, whom I know and love, is a fantastic actress. It's her right as an American to say whatever she wants. [But] just because you're rich and famous doesn't qualify you to make political statements. I don't put my opinions out there to influence people. You have alot of influence. And sometimes I feel it's undeserved influence.

If you can influence the leaders, either with or without their conscious cooperation, you automatically influence the group which they sway.

My family has always been there to support me along the way. My coach, John Nicks, is a great influence.

No other single influence has had so great an impact on this earth as the life of Jesus the Christ.

It is surely indisputable that no single leader in the twentieth century exerted as great an influence on the course of world history as Lenin.

Noting all these things with the great delight which learning gives, we cannot but be stirred by these discoveries when we reflect upon the influence of them one by one.

Changing behavior is less a matter of giving people analysis to influence their thoughts than helping them to see a truth to influence their feelings.

Iris Murdoch did influence my early novels very much, and influence is never entirely good.

There's a clear distinction between activities that threaten the security and integrity of our election systems, and the broader threat from influence operations designed to influence voters.

Influence means power, and I don't want that. Whatever happens, here we do our own thing and put it out there for people to take or leave. We're not doing anything to influence them.

An inward sincerity will of course influence the outward deportment; but where the one is wanting, there is great reason to suspect the absence of the other.

Influence is the new power - if you have influence, you can create a brand.

The hope of the future lies not in curbing the influence of human occupancy - it is already too late for that - but in creating a better understanding of the extent of that influence and a new ethic for its governance.

When I did 'Bird,' it was a surprise to some people, first because I wasn't in it and second because most of the films I'd been doing were cop movies or westerns or adventure films, so to be doing one about Charlie Parker, who was a great influence on American music, was a great thrill for me.

I think the Greek New Testament is the strongest and most successful misreading of a great prior text in the entire history of influence.

The essence of influence is pull. It's an attraction. Great influencers attract people, to themselves, and to their ideas.

When mothers know who they are and who God is and have made covenants with Him, they will have great power and influence for good on their children.

The French Revolution will be found to have had great influence on the strength of parties, and on the subsequent political transactions of the United States.

It's not just for its influence on us, but to know that we can play a part in it, to understand the influence that we have outside our own existence.

Leadership is influence. To the extent we influence others, we lead them.

It's not just for its influence on us, but to knowknow that we can play a part in it, to understand the influence that we have outside our own existence.

When I was starting to write, the great influence was T.S. Eliot and after that William Butler Yeats.

We are a great fit, and I'm excited about the chance to influence a new generation of young footballers alongside Warrior.

Influence, people think about it as someone you like but influence is also what you're revolted by. In fact, often it's what you're running away from.

Influence people think about it as someone you like but influence is also what you're revolted by. In fact, often it's what you're running away from.

The Iranians are very skilled terrorist, and we'd have to expect that they'd hit at us as hard as they could. Especially in Iraq, where they have a great deal of power and influence.

If we spend most of our time concerned about things we cannot truly directly influence, what we can influence will be reduced. If we spend our energies on those things over which we can expect positive results, we will expand our influence.

I've been asked a great deal about the influence I've had with my work and it's impossible to say, you know.

Friends, suffering, marriage, environment, study and recreation are influence which shape character. The strongest influence, if you are generous enough to yield to it, is the grace of God.

With 'Brick' there was the Dashiell Hammett influence, and with 'Brothers Bloom' there was a really strong Fellini influence - both those movies wore that on their sleeve.

David Jacobs is a great influence on my life, has taught me so much about so many things.

Those of us that were raised in Tijuana have so much access to San Diego. I was crossing the border every day when I was a kid, and that back and forth has a huge influence on the cuisine. So the U.S. is coming down to Tijuana, Tijuana is going to San Diego. There's this great blending, a great exchange.

I'd rather have the influence than the power, and the influence to me is to build institutions of independence and democracy, to regain for Egypt prestige in education and science and technology.

The past does not influence me; I influence it.

I see my career as not just music, but as hopefully an entertainer on all mediums, and someone who can have real influence and make great art.

'm the second oldest of eight kids. I'd have to say, what inspires me is making sure my siblings have a good role model to look up to. Nowadays, influencers do anything to keep up with each other for attention, and it's not always something today's youth should mimic. I understand that with great influence comes great responsibility.

When marketers influence habits, they influence peoples' self-identity. And so when a group or company does something that doesn't correspond to our core values, it feels like a betrayal.

Social media can sometimes influence the charts, but I think that only great music makes it to the top. The good songs make it.

Prayer does not influence God. Prayer surely does influence God. It does not influence His purpose. It does influence His action.

Foreign influence is truly the Grecian horse to a republic. We cannot be too careful to exclude its influence.

You influence your surroundings every bit as much as they influence you.

We're more of a rock band and we have a punk influence and a pop influence.

The further you go in life, the more you realize what you're going to leave this earth. It's not going be, "It was a great platform. It was great to win the Super Bowl." But, really and truly what you're going to leave this earth is the influence on others.

I don't really listen to contemporary R&B with an ear for hearing my influence. Music is a spirit unto itself, and all of us musicians influence each other all along the chain.

Alan Pardew brought me to Southampton and was a great influence and then we had consecutive promotions under Nigel Adkins.

Influence comes out of the work that you've done and the things you've stood for. Influence and power shouldn't be given to just anybody who wants them.

People ask me about my influences and I say all the comedians in the 1970s and Dave Allen was a massive influence and a very big influence on a lot of modern comics.

New security architecture is being laid down in the Northern Middle East, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, in which pro-Iranian governments are consolidating their grip on the territory and they're backed by Russia, to a large degree. And this has caused great grief and consternation in Saudi Arabia and amongst many of the United States' allies, Israel, the Gulf countries, Turkey, because they see this new architecture of security and Iranian influence and Russian influence as something that's very bad for them.

Great American power and responsibility are not unprecedented, and have been used with restraint and great benefit in the past. We have not assumed that super strength guarantees super wisdom, and we have consistently reached out to the international community to ensure that our own power and influence are tempered by the best common judgment.

It would be hard to exaggerate Ernest Hemingway's influence over American literature, but his influence on our lives is probably larger still.

The television industry claims they are only reflecting society with their programming and have no influence on behavior. If that is the case then why do businesses spend millions on TV ads that have no influence?

Lasith Malinga has been a great influence for me to bowl yorkers consistently.

All great literary works influence us as writers, not their stories as much as their storytelling ability.

In any influence, will, a self, the ego, the I AM is the greater force to be dealt with, but as numbers do influence, a knowledge of same certainly gives an individual a foresight into relationships.

You know in fairness Gary [Johnson] and I have not agreed on a number of substantive issues in this campaign, tax policy, we've had some influence on each other, I think I've had some influence on him, on constructive engagement around the world, he's had some influence on me in criminal justice reform issues.

If we can get kids talking about conservation and doing it, they can have a great influence on their parents by lecturing them and pointing the finger.