And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them.
~By Henri Bergson ~
We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.
~By Dwight D. Eisenhower ~
The United States form a young republic, a confederacy which ought ever to be cemented by a union of interests and affection, under the influence of those principles which obtained their independence.
~By Mercy Otis Warren ~
I think Stalin was afraid of Roosevelt. Whenever Roosevelt spoke, he sort of watched him with a certain awe. He was afraid of Roosevelt's influence in the world.
~By W. Averell Harriman ~
My parents, especially my mother, were no influence on me whatsoever.
~By Andy Partridge ~
We influence singing but never really songwriting.
~By Charles King ~
The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by 500 readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the 500, he reaches the five hundred thousand.
~By Brooks Adams ~
We are certainly influenced by role models, and if we are surrounded by images of beautiful rich people, we will start to think that to be beautiful and rich is very important - just as in the Middle Ages, people were surrounded by images of religious piety.
~By Alain de Botton ~
If the union between England and America is a powerful factor in the cause of peace, a new Triple Alliance between the Teutonic race and the two branches of the Anglo-Saxon race will be a still more potent influence in the future of the world.
~By Edward Grey ~
There is an immutable conflict at work in life and in business, a constant battle between peace and chaos. Neither can be mastered, but both can be influenced. How you go about that is the key to success.
~By Philip Knight ~
Do not be misled by what you see around you, or be influenced by what you see. You live in a world which is a playground of illusion, full of false paths, false values and false ideals. But you are not part of that world.
~By Sai Baba ~
Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.
~By Josh Billings ~
The intercourse between the Mediterranean and the North or between the Atlantic and Central Europe was never purely economic or political; it also meant the exchange of knowledge and ideas and the influence of social institutions and artistic and literary forms.
~By Christopher Dawson ~
Time control directly influences the quality of play.
~By Boris Spassky ~
I was mainly influenced by the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard, and others like Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash.
~By Iris DeMent ~
As our language wanes and dies, the golden legends of the far-off centuries fade and pass away. No one sees their influence upon culture; no one sees their educational power.
~By Douglas Hyde ~
I was always influenced by language.
~By Helen Dunmore ~
Another cause for the increase in alienation and cynicism is a feeling that too many policy decisions that affect individuals have been taken out of any system that has accountability or that they can influence.
~By Robert Teeter ~
My influences were Peter Sellers and the great British character actors.
~By Tracey Ullman ~
There were influences in my life that were more important than journalism, such as comic strips and radio.
~By Guillermo Cabrera Infante ~
Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense.
~By Tennessee Williams ~
Again, I was influenced by my father, who was very much an atheist and took pride in combating the traditional or orthodox forms of Judaism, which his parents and which my mother's parents were very steeped in.
~By Robert Jay Lifton ~
The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before he is born.
~By Dean Inge ~
How can a coach have any influence over a player that's making over five times more than he is?
~By Hayden Fry ~
Malcolm X made me very strong at a time I needed to understand what I was angry about. He had peace in his heart. He exerted a big influence on me.
~By Lena Horne ~
I'm a spiritual person, I'm an America, I'm a Jew, and all of those things influence every breath I take, everywhere I go.
~By Mandy Patinkin ~
News is important information that may influence your investments. Noise is talk or buzz or some headline that prevents you from seeing a story clearly. News is useful. Noise is a distraction. Calling what's noise and news after the fact is easy.
~By Maria Bartiromo ~
It's valid that the Strokes and the Pleased have been influenced by some of the same bands. But it's invalid in the sense that we listen to the Strokes and try to sounds like them. I think that they are a good band.
~By Joanna Newsom ~
I strongly suggest that we play down basics like who influenced whom, and instead study the way the influence is transformed, in other words: how the artist made it his own.
~By Lukas Foss ~
Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence.
~By David Hume ~
I was a jazz major in high school, in an all-jazz band. No matter what I do, it features my musical influences.
~By Wyclef Jean ~
Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.
~By Charles Simmons ~
I came from a broken home, so my mom was a major influence in my life.
~By Julius Erving ~
It's definitely an influence, I mean how can you not say you are influenced to play rock.
~By Mike Lowry ~
Modern Western thought will pass into history and be incorporated in it, will have its influence and its place, just as our body will pass into the composition of grass, of sheep, of cutlets, and of men.
~By Alexander Herzen ~
The good news is that parents are the leading influence on kids' decision not to drink alcohol.
~By Xavier Becerra ~
In fact, the history of North America has been perhaps more profoundly influenced by man's inheritance from his past homes than by the physical features of his present home.
~By Ellsworth Huntington ~
I've probably had my day in the sun. I think I've influenced a lot of comic book writers.
~By Harvey Pekar ~
The movies that influenced me were movies that told their stories through pictures more than words.
~By Sam Mendes ~
The idea is that there is a kind of memory in nature. Each kind of thing has a collective memory. So, take a squirrel living in New York now. That squirrel is being influenced by all past squirrels.
~By Rupert Sheldrake ~
Well, obviously I wanted it to sound as original as possible. I suppose the influences that we had were probably from the actual power point of view we wanted to be like the Who. Vocally we wanted to be like the Beach Boys, whatever was good at the time.
~By Roy Wood ~
Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior.
~By Marshall McLuhan ~
There were a whole lot, I bought every blues record I could find, it wasn't just one or two people. My vocal influences were Ray Charles and Bobby Blue Bland.
~By Johnny Winter ~
Among the best traitors Ireland has ever had, Mother Church ranks at the very top, a massive obstacle in the path to equality and freedom. She has been a force for conservatism... to ward off threats to her own security and influence.
~By Bernadette Devlin ~
Anything you read can influence your work, so I try to read good stuff.
~By S. E. Hinton ~
Their films would probably be better if they'd seen a few more films, which runs counter to this idiotic theory that you run the risk of being influenced if you see too much.
~By Jacques Rivette ~
As we've seen, our constitutional system requires limits on copyright as a way to assure that copyright holders do not too heavily influence the development and distribution of our culture.
~By Lawrence Lessig ~
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.
~By Siobhan Davies ~
Even the contemporary horror authors who have seriously influenced me are a disparate bunch.
~By George Stephen ~
The satiric ethos of Mad was a much bigger childhood influence.
~By Alison Bechdel ~
I'm concerned about the insidious influence of the media's bad messages that undermine the lessons parents try to instill in their sons and daughters.
~By John Ratzenberger ~
Alliances and international organizations should be understood as opportunities for leadership and a means to expand our influence, not as constraints on our power.
~By Chuck Hagel ~
You don't have to be a "person of influence" to be influential. In fact, the most influential people in my life are probably not even aware of the things they've taught me.
~By Scott Adams ~
Influence is like a savings account. The less you use it, the more you've got.
~By Andrew Young ~
We were a Western civilisation, an English speaking civilisation, both NZ and Australia, and we had all these influences coming from both Great Britain and America to us; sending us their culture in the shape and form of movies and television.
~By Richard O'Brien ~
Dying before dying has two important consequences: It liberates the individual from the fear of death and influences the actual experience of dying at the time of biological demise.
~By Stanislav Grof ~
Research shows that parents are the single biggest influence on children - if you are worried about your teen and drugs, talk to them.
~By John Walters ~
I'm constantly being influenced by the soul that's directly in front of me.
~By Dick Dale ~
I would be very proud to have influenced anyone that I know or don't know to quit smoking.
~By Christy Turlington ~
True as this is, it is also true that for one who won through there were many who gained nothing, and it was, and is, the sheer weight of numbers of those who failed of this that has made their influence on the modern life as pervasive and controlling as it is.
~By Ralph A. Cram ~
There are a couple of teachers I have had without whose influence I would not be as happy with who I am.
~By Mackenzie Astin ~
I'm not aware that I was consciously influenced by any director, though these things often happen unnoticed, submerged in the unconscious.
~By William Peter Blatty ~
Poor air quality, which can be influenced by a variety of fumes, chemicals and allergens, is arguably the leading cause of triggers for most asthmatics in urban areas.
~By Ian Smith ~
I loved nearly all my teachers; but it was not till I went home to live at Oxford, in 1867, that I awoke intellectually to a hundred interests and influences that begin much earlier nowadays to affect any clever child.
~By Mary A. Ward ~
I feel more influenced in my own work by dreams than I do by other writers' works in a way. Or by popular culture, movies - what else is there to write about than love and loss?
~By Alice Hoffman ~
I was influenced a lot by those around me - there was a lot of singing that went on in the cotton fields.
~By Willie Nelson ~
I think my Buddhist practice has a profound influence on my life and encompasses my creative projects.
~By Duncan Sheik ~
The paintings by Van Gough and Chagall had a big influence on me.
~By John Dyer ~
The tourist who moves about to see and hear and open himself to all the influences of the places which condense centuries of human greatness is only a man in search of excellence.
~By Max Lerner ~
I'm not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers.
~By Robert Wyatt ~
Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it.
~By Simone Weil ~
Each member of the band has varied influences, and the same diversity is reflected in our fanbase.
~By Daisy Berkowitz ~
The other writer who had a very important early influence on me when I was about 17 was C.S. Lewis.
~By Tanith Lee ~
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
~By Henry Adams ~
Influence is a very unpleasant subject and I deal with it in a maybe irresponsible way, which is to really ignore it. It would be a nightmare if we started to really think about it; it would tie our hands, it would tie everyone else's hands.
~By Rem Koolhaas ~
Yes, influences are enriching, and they can be found in every work of art, even the most original.
~By Lukas Foss ~
I'm not gonna say that I hate it, because I really respect Usher and I was influenced by him. But so many people compare me to him, and I don't think it'll ever stop. I just want to be my own artist.
~By Chris Brown ~
A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's influence ought to be entirely concealed.
~By Honore De Balzac ~
The myth that the founding of American Republic was based on the philosophy of John Locke could only have been maintained, because the history of Leibniz's influence was suppressed.
~By Robert Trout ~
In 1995 the whole political situation was very complicated. I was the first deputy prime minister, and at the same time I had very low influence in the government.
~By Anatoly Chubais ~
You don't try to get influenced by everything that's going on with all the other music around you. You don't listen to the radio - I mean, I don't. When I get ready to do an album, I don't listen to anybody else; I don't wanna be influenced.
~By Tim McGraw ~
We believed that growth through Local Government, and perhaps through some special machinery for bringing the wishes and influence of women of all classes to bear on Parliament, other than the Parliamentary vote, was the real line of progress.
~By Mary A. Ward ~
I think the fact that I created something and had an enormous influence is indisputable.
~By La Monte Young ~
I'm really influenced by so many different things.
~By Alex Winter ~
Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world.
~By Thomas Guthrie ~
It is needless to say how great has been the influence of the doctrine of Evolution, or rather perhaps of the method of investigation to which it has given birth, upon the study of history, especially the history of institutions.
~By Goldwin Smith ~
I could start with Mandelstam, who was a huge influence on my early writing.
~By Helen Dunmore ~
Punk rock really influenced me, the basic metal bands, Zeppelin, Stones and Floyd, and Southern rock bands. I think I was pretty well-rounded.
~By Al Jourgensen ~
Don Knotts was a really big influence, especially on the Steve Allen show. I mean, look at the guy, his entire life is in his face.
~By Tim Conway ~
Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan had tremendous influence on generations of American because, even if people disagreed with them, they admired them because they made very strong commitments to things they believed in.
~By Phil Crane ~
Curiosity is natural to the soul of man and interesting objects have a powerful influence on our affections.
~By Daniel Boone ~
I think clearly the United States, as well as other western nations, should stand by their commitments to human rights and democracy and should try to influence other countries to move in that direction.
~By Samuel P. Huntington ~
I was influenced by European movies, old Fellini, old Kurosawa - any sort of foreign film.
~By Ted Demme ~
I belong to the middle class that grew up very influenced by the Catholic church. The people of the novel are from a more pagan and practical world in which the Christianity is just a veneer.
~By John McGahern ~
There are so many moments and works that influence us in what we do. Movies, music, TV and, most importantly, the profound everydayness of our lives.
~By Barbara Kruger ~
Public influence is the real government of the world.
~By Josiah Warren ~
I read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me.
~By Michael Caine ~
From blood banking to the modern subway, from jazz to social justice, the contributions of African Americans have shaped and molded and influenced our national culture and our national character.
~By Bill Frist ~
It's inevitable your environment will influence what you do.
~By Duncan Sheik ~
Under the influence of fear, which always leads men to take a pessimistic view of things, they magnified their enemies' resources, and minimized their own.
~By Titus Livius ~
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