Top 1200 Personal Influence Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

It's the ultimate compliment to be imitated or at least be somebody's influence, for sure.

When you raise your opinion of yourself and what you are capable of it has a decided influence on what you do.

We can trace almost all the disasters of English history to the influence of Wales.

I believe the public schools are the greatest cultural influence in this country.

I've been as bad an influence on American literature as anyone I can think of.

The Jews must realize that their influence in Germany has disappeared for all time.

I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.

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

I had been really obsessed with Jonestown for a long time - many years - and had read everything there was to read about it, seen all the footage and the documentaries. I found it really chilling in a personal way - the question of people submitting all their personal power and agency and independent thought it the name of a group or ideology. I could not find a way to write about it directly that didn't feel too heavy.

Personal credibility has everything to do with how others perceive us and how we perceive ourselves. Sandy Allgeier’s book teaches the all-important truth that it doesn’t matter how much money, status, or power you have if nobody believes in you. Every parent should read The Personal Credibility Factor and instill its lessons in their kids.Achieving a full understanding of these principles is the first step in becoming a truly great human being.

Man is at his best when complimented by the influence of a good woman.

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

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

I'm good at keeping on top of my emotions and not letting them influence the fight.

Some of Kant's particular moral opinions, either because he shared the prejudices of his time, or because of his own personal crotchets, can strike sensible people as ridiculous or offensive. But in my view, his own theory provides us with the resources (the best resources available, I believe) to correct his own personal errors or cultural prejudices.

My dad was a big influence because he did a lot of music.

My personal feelings on marriage? Samuel Johnson once said that second marriages - although I could probably say this about any marriage - are about the triumph of hope over experience. I think that's true. I don't know that human beings were meant to mate for life or be monogamous. But, for me, the aspect of marriage that is troubling is that it's a contract that is governed by the state, and I don't want the state to have control over my personal affairs.

Maybe I just have a different line than other people in terms of where my personal emotional space becomes public and private. There's almost nothing I wouldn't tell somebody about my quote - unquote "personal life" if they asked in any conversation. There's nothing I've done or said that's that great. I don't see anything I've done to be that different than any other normal person.

The best leaders lead through influence and collaboration,regardless of their title.

The body is holographic; therefore, when you change one biomarker you influence them all.

That's the trouble with trying to influence an undecided voter. First you have to find one

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

Some events take a lifetime to reveal their damage and influence.

The word "influence" means the power to change or affect someone.

I came from a broken home, so my mom was a major influence in my life.

I don't believe in an afterlife. You live on in the people you influence during your lifetime.

There is no influence so powerful as that of the mother, but next in rank in efficacy is that of the schoolmaster.

No reproof or denunciation is so potent as the silent influence of a good example.

The things that impress you when you're a child have an incredible influence on your life.

If you ever get in a position to influence and inspire the youth of the country, you should do it.

I do not allow others to influence my thinking unless it is positive or uplifting.

I don't find much influence in opera. It was such a different part of me.

My relationship with God through Christ has given me meaning and direction. My faith has made a big difference in my personal life, and my public life as well. I make personal decisions every day. Some are easy, and some aren't so easy. I have worries just like you do. And I pray. I pray for guidance. I pray for patience. I firmly believe in the power of intercessory prayer; and I know that I could not do my job without it.

You will never be able to measure your influence for good.

Real power has to do with one's ability to influence the hearts and minds of others.

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

No great power is ever satisfied with its sphere of influence. They never are.

Power is a tool, influence is a skill; one is a fist, the other a fingertip.

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.

Religion is such a belief of the Bible as maintains a living influence on the heart.

There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.

You earn influence by giving value and attention to other people. BE USEFUL!

To succeed in life one needs two things -- influence and a lucky star.

Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.

What we say has such a profound influence upon what we see, and hear, and taste of the world!

It is easier to influence strong than weak characters in life.

I want to make it to Heaven and be as good an influence on others as I can in that process.

'Mediocre' tends to mean 'undistinguished', while snobs enjoy their distinguishing hallmarks of style - how they wear clothes, use words, where they go and gather and gossip. ...Whatever the circumstances the genius has put you into, the fact of individuality defends the soul against all class-action claims. No soul is mediocre, whatever your personal taste for conventionality, whatever your personal record of middling achievements.

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

Advertising reflects the mores of society, but it does not influence them.

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.

No, generally I think influence is used as a nice word for plagiarism.

I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.

I think you've got to be as honest as possible in order to influence someone.

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

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.

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

I can say without doubt, that reading has had a huge influence on my life.

I like the influence of pictures on music and the other way around.

I still don't know how to express the really delicate personal stuff. People think that Plastic Ono is very personal, but there are some subtleties of emotions which I cannot seem to express in pop music, and it frustrates me. Maybe that's why I still search for other ways of expressing myself. Song writing is a limiting experience in some ways - writing down words that have to rhyme.