Top 1200 Personal Influence Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

I write heavily under the influence of James Taylor.

Function influence but does not dictate form

Revelation, indeed, as such had no influence on my mind

Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.

I definitely don't think of myself as being an influence.

Everyone has influence, for good or bad, upon others.

Influence is just persuasion in slow motion.

Stevie Wonder was a big influence in my life.

The people that you have around you are your biggest influence.

Jean Plaidy was the greatest influence on me.

Public influence is the real government of the world.

The future is not inevitable. We can influence it, if we know what we want it to be.

..Our level of influence is not the same with everyone.

In the case of the Web, each of us has slightly more access to a mass audience - a few more people slide through the door - but Facebook is finally a crude, personal multimedia conglomerate machine, personal nation-state machine, reality-show machine. New gadgets alter social patterns, new media eclipse old ones, but the pyramid never goes away.

Influence is providing attention and value to others.

We sometimes underestimate the influence of little things

The books that influence the world are those that it has not read.

Poetry has a small audience, but a large influence.

Though this world has a way of diminishing and demeaning men and women, the reality is we are all of royal, divine lineage. In that unprecedented appearance of the Father and the Son in the Sacred Grove, the very first word spoken by the Father of us all was the personal name of Joseph. Such is our Father's personal relationship with each of us. He knows our names and yearns for us to become worthy to return to live with Him.

Social media is an influence but with my own twist!

You are the single biggest influence in your life.

A political place with no power, only influence, is not to my taste.

We influence singing but never really songwriting.

Cheerfulness has a directly beneficial influence upon health.

Most definitely, my dad was my biggest influence.

'No' puts distance between you and the wrong influence.

Disco is a major influence in the world of fashion.

We are a small country and we have limited influence so we are neutral.

It's inevitable your environment will influence what you do.

Even personal tastes are learned, in the matrix of a culture or a subculture in which we grow up, by very much the same kind of process by which we learn our common values. Purely personal tastes, indeed, can only survive in a culture which tolerates them, that is, which has a common value that private tastes of certain kinds should be allowed.

Power is nothing unless you can turn it into influence.

The most powerful moral influence is example.

It's the clothes that influence the music I'm going to play.

It's hard to name a person who is unpopular who has influence.

Charisma is the ability to influence without logic.

I have now lived long enough to know that, whatever our situation, our troubles melt and disappear like frost in the morning sun when we dwell upon our blessings rather than our disappointments. No matter how pessimistic one's view may become of the times and the seasons, we can always fall back on special friendship, on faithful, personal love, and on simple, true dealings in our own personal lives.

Louie Vega was a huge influence on me.

In jazz, there is a lot of European influence harmonically.

Sound is a huge influence on peoples' attention.

The influence of a high school coach can be so powerful.

It is a grand old name, that of gentleman, and has been recognized as a rank and power in all stages of society. To possess this character is a dignity of itself, commanding the instinctive homage of every generous mind, and those who will not bow to titular rank will yet do homage to the gentleman. His qualities depend not upon fashion or manners, but upon moral worth; not on personal possessions, but on personal qualities.

Thought is the creative power, or the impelling force which causes the creative power to act; thinking in a Certain Way will bring riches to you, but you must not rely upon thought alone, paying no attention to personal action. That is the rock upon which many otherwise scientific metaphysical thinkers meet shipwreck–the failure to connect thought with personal action.

When I go to throw a punch, actually, my intention is to hit somebody. That's just second nature to me. So you have to just rewire yourself. It's not something where you have to sit and subconsciously think about it, but you kind of have to just put yourself in that mode and go with it. Learning the fight scenes, I've never had to learn choreography before, so learning the fight scenes was like learning a dance or something like that. I had a little bit of influence in the fight scenes and I tried to put as much influence there as I could, but I had fun doing it.

I influence people, hopefully on the positive side.

Books have always a secret influence on the understanding.

Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.

My dad's Irish music was such a huge influence.

My target is to expand the BJP's influence everywhere.

We don’t constrain our mental powers when we store new long-term memories. We strengthen them. With each expansion of our memory comes an enlargement of our intelligence. The Web provides a convenient and compelling supplement to personal memory - but when we start using the Web as a substitute for personal memory, by bypassing the inner processes of consolidation, we risk emptying our minds of their riches.

My influence is everywhere. You know when you're touching people.

The problem facing our people here in America is bigger than all other personal or organizational differences. Therefore, as leaders, we must stop worrying about the threat that we seem to think we pose to each other's personal prestige, and concentrate our united efforts toward solving the unending hurt that is being done daily to our people here in America.

Beware the influence of the military-industrial complex.

I really do believe in the influence of your surroundings.

If there was a direct influence on a song, I never hid it.

The ego isn't wrong; it's just unconscious. When you observe the ego in yourself, you are beginning to go beyond it. Don't take the ego too seriously. When you detect egoic behavior in yourself, smile. At times you may even laugh. How could humanity have been taken in by this for so long? Above all, know that the ego isn't personal. It isn't who you are. If you consider the ego to be your personal problem, that's just more ego.

Books are the best type of the influence of the past.

Honor, publicly, results in influence, privately.

To me, God is Truth and Love; God is ethics and morality: God is fearlessness. God is the source of Light and Life and yet He is above and beyond all these. God is conscience... He is a personal God to those who need His personal presence. He is embodied to those who need His touch. He is the purest essence. He simply is to those who have faith. He is all things to all men.

Mum has been the biggest influence on me.

I think we'll always have newspapers, but they'll lose influence.