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 ~
Well I had my kids so young that I kind of feel that I'm a kid too and am growing up with them. The things they're interested in tend to really influence me.
~By Reese Witherspoon ~
I think that's given inspiration to other musicians. I know, particularly through the 90s, a lot of bands would cite Rush as an influence. I don't think it was so much our music, but more the way we really stuck to our guns.
~By Alex Lifeson ~
It was both necessary and desirable for us to be so strong at sea that no Sea Power could attack us without risk, so that we might be free to protect our oversea interests, independently of the influence and the choice of other Sea Powers.
~By Bernhard von Bulow ~
Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life.
~By Charles de Gaulle ~
I'd pick a young white guy over an old white guy for president anytime because the younger guy is more likely to have been influenced by the great social changes of the '60s and '70s.
~By D. L. Hughley ~
While there are many influences on gas prices in America, I believe the passage of a national energy bill will help relieve this burden on our country.
~By Paul Gillmor ~
Mantovani was a great influence on me.
~By Brian May ~
Whatever I'm reading at the moment seems to influence whatever I'm writing.
~By John Sladek ~
I could have done a hundred songs, really. It was hard to narrow them down, because I tried to pick songs for the most part that actually did have some effect on me or influenced me in the past.
~By Alan Jackson ~
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 quality of what is said inevitably influences the way in which it is said, however inexperienced the writer.
~By Robertson Davies ~
When I was 18 I went to college for two years and didn't work for a year which was essential for me, because my identity had been so influenced by my being an actor and I think I just needed to discover what it was to be myself, divorced from all that responsibility.
~By Claire Danes ~
The essential attribute of a new sense is, not the perception of external objects or influences which ordinarily do not act upon the senses, but that external causes should excite in it a new and peculiar kind of sensation different from all the sensations of our five senses.
~By Johannes P. Muller ~
I think people tend to live, whether they like it or not, influenced by what's next door to them.
~By Campbell Scott ~
What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature.
~By W. Somerset Maugham ~
Benny Goodman was one of the big influences as a clarinet player. That's why I wanted the clarinet.
~By Lee Konitz ~
A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes.
~By Joseph Addison ~
People are naming it the Third Wave, the Information Age, etc. but I would say those are basically technological descriptions, and this next shift is not about technology - although obviously it will be influenced and in some cases expressed by technologies.
~By Paul Hawken ~
English policy may not yet have made the definite decision to attack us; but it doubtless wishes, by all and every means, even the most extreme, to hinder every further expansion of German international influence and of German maritime power.
~By Bernhard von Bulow ~
I think that one of the things that influences me most as a composer is to what extent I can deconstruct and reconstruct the material that I'm working with.
~By Fred Frith ~
But I'm more interested in why people are frightened by Jaws and why Jaws was such a hit than saying Spielberg's my main influence.
~By Damien Hirst ~
I listened to my record and hear lots of influences. And it's very rich... it's got a wide spectrum.
~By Chantal Kreviazuk ~
I read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me.
~By Michael Caine ~
And you know, almost in a perverse way, I wish it had been undue influence because we know how to correct that. We get rid of the people who, in fact, were exercising that.
~By David Kay ~
OUR history begins before we are born. We represent the hereditary influences of our race, and our ancestors virtually live in us.
~By James Nasmyth ~
Beginning with adolescence, my political formation was oriented in the ideological direction of Marxism. It was natural, being that my thinking was influenced by an atmosphere of active critical resistance. That was the way it was during all of the dictatorship and up to the Revolution of 1974.
~By Jose Saramago ~
The woman who can't influence her husband to vote the way she wants ought to be ashamed of herself.
~By E. M. Forster ~
Advertising reflects the mores of society, but it does not influence them.
~By David Ogilvy ~
A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.
~By Amos Bronson Alcott ~
My family has always been there to support me along the way. My coach, John Nicks, is a great influence.
~By Sasha Cohen ~
My main influences have always been the classic jazz players who sang, like Louis Armstrong and Nat King Cole and Jack Teagarden.
~By Mose Allison ~
The Stuart sovereigns of England steadily attempted to strengthen their power, and the resistance to that effort caused an immense growth of Parliamentary influence.
~By Albert Bushnell Hart ~
I was not influenced by composers as much as by natural objects and physical phenomena.
~By Edgard Varese ~
I really learned the power of the tube on Sesame Street and how it can influence a very young mind.
~By Ruth Buzzi ~
I think there are influences that you open the door to, and influences that come under the door.
~By Harrison Birtwistle ~
I think church and state should remain entirely separate at all costs, and that the decision of religious marriage should be of each faith to debate and decide free of political influence.
~By Adam Rickitt ~
What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter - a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue.
~By Henri Matisse ~
The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.
~By Ken Blanchard ~
I think the fact that I created something and had an enormous influence is indisputable.
~By La Monte Young ~
I've probably had my day in the sun. I think I've influenced a lot of comic book writers.
~By Harvey Pekar ~
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 ~
The greatest ability in business is to get along with others and influence their actions. A chip on the shoulder is too heavy a piece of baggage to carry through life.
~By John Hannah ~
There the union of Church and State tends strongly to paralyze some of the members of the body of Christ. Here there is no such influence to destroy spiritual life and power.
~By Josiah Strong ~
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 ~
I think Henry Miller has had huge influence not because he wrote about sex, but because the memoir or the nonfiction novel has become such a monumental force in American publishing, if not in literature.
~By Leslie Fiedler ~
Is it experimental to have been influenced by the Bible? By Saint Augustine?
~By Marguerite Young ~
I understand that postmodern literature probably means people like DeLillo, The Fiction Collective, but I don't get it that those writers are really influenced by postmodern theorists.
~By Kathy Acker ~
The jet stream is the controlling influence over the world's weather systems.
~By Michael Fish ~
One always hopes that you're going to have influence and staying power, but you never know.
~By Chris Frantz ~
It's like this - these five members have been influenced of course by other groups, because that's where this generation's groups came from - an environment like the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Yardbirds, and The Who. People like that.
~By Alice Cooper ~
Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.
~By Josh Billings ~
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 ~
Marriage cannot be severed from its cultural, religious and natural roots without weakening the good influence of society.
~By Jack Kingston ~
It wasn't so much that I had to leave to make it in the music business as I was curious to be out on my own and sort of explore. I never felt that where I was ever influenced my songwriting.
~By Matthew Sweet ~
We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.
~By Dwight D. Eisenhower ~
The most powerful moral influence is example.
~By Huston Smith ~
A comprehensive national energy policy is critical to our nation's economy and our national security. Energy expenditures account for about 7% percent of our total economy and influence pricing in the much of the rest of the economy.
~By Heather Wilson ~
Growing up in northern California has had a big influence on my love and respect for the outdoors. When I lived in Oakland, we would think nothing of driving to Half Moon Bay and Santa Cruz one day and then driving to the foothills of the Sierras the next day.
~By Tom Hanks ~
Without the connotation good or bad, bin Laden's a great man in the sense that he's influenced the course of history.
~By Michael Scheuer ~
I buy records from all across the board. I get kind of a hybrid of influences in my own music.
~By Jason Mraz ~
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 ~
For when we talk about the spreading power and influence of globalization, aren't we really referring to the spreading economic and military might of the US?
~By Fredric Jameson ~
Blake has always been a favorite, the lyrics, not so much the prophetic books, but I suppose Yeats influenced me more as a young poet, and the American, Robert Frost.
~By Anne Stevenson ~
The big turning point, really, was the Beatles' influence on American folk music, and then Roger took it to the next step, and then along came the Lovin' Spoonful and everybody else.
~By Barry McGuire ~
I suppose more than anything, it's the way of life in this part of the country that influences my writing. In Eastern North Carolina, with the exception of Wilmington, most people live in small towns.
~By Nicholas Sparks ~
Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
~By Bertrand Russell ~
Diplomacy means all the wicked devices of the Old World, spheres of influence, balances of power, secret treaties, triple alliances, and, during the interim period, appeasement of Fascism.
~By Barbara Tuchman ~
We influence singing but never really songwriting.
~By Charles King ~
We were very influenced by The Beatles, no question.
~By Barry Gibb ~
House was the first film where I had no influence on the script. I had to buy the script with the game rights.
~By Uwe Boll ~
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 ~
Every war results from the struggle for markets and spheres of influence, and every war is sold to the public by professional liars and totally sincere religious maniacs, as a Holy Crusade to save God and Goodness from Satan and Evil.
~By Robert Anton Wilson ~
I'm as much influenced by Joseph Smith and the Mormons as I am, more so, than by Eliot. Actually, I'm much more influenced by the poetry of the Mormons.
~By Marguerite Young ~
Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children.
~By Billy Graham ~
The openness of rural Nebraska certainly influenced me. That openness, in a way, fosters the imagination. But growing up, Lincoln wasn't a small town. It was a college town. It had record stores and was a liberal place.
~By Matthew Sweet ~
We weren't afraid to mix some crazy styles into the standard rockabilly look. We also took a lot of different musical influences that were part of that era.
~By Brian Setzer ~
I was the first person to come into New York with a Latin American point of view which was also very much influenced by political happenings in Latin America.
~By Ruben Blades ~
I discovered the 7th art at home when I was kid, through Charlie Chaplin's movies and those of my father who shot documentaries. He was my biggest influence. So I took his camera and started shooting.
~By Lasse Hallstrom ~
It's the clothes that influence the music I'm going to play.
~By Graham Coxon ~
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 ~
It is a question of fact, whether the influence of motives be fixed by laws of nature, so that they shall always have the same effect in the same circumstances.
~By Thomas Reid ~
I have learned that trying to guess what the boss or the client wants is the most debilitating of all influences in the creation of good advertising.
~By Leo Burnett ~
The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.
~By Salvador Dali ~
If you are given a chance to be a role model, I think you should always take it because you can influence a person's life in a positive light, and that's what I want to do. That's what it's all about.
~By Tiger Woods ~
Religion united its influence with those of loyalty and love, and the order of knighthood, endowed with all the sanctity and religious awe that attended the priesthood, became an object of ambition to the greatest sovereigns.
~By Thomas Bulfinch ~
Our alliances should be understood as a means to expand our influence, not as a constraint on our power. The expansion of democracy and freedom in the world should be a shared interest and value with all nations.
~By Chuck Hagel ~
According to the scientific naturalist version of cosmic history, nature is a permanently closed system of material effects that can never be influenced by something from outside - like God, for example.
~By Phillip E. Johnson ~
The Gospel having spread itself into Persia, the pagan priests, who worshipped the sun, were greatly alarmed, and dreaded the loss of that influence they had hitherto maintained over the people's minds and properties.
~By John Foxe ~
The biggest influence? I've had several at different times - but the biggest for me was Bob Dylan, who was a guy that came along when I was twelve or thirteen and just changed all the rules about what it meant to write songs.
~By Jackson Browne ~
If you examine this, I think that you will find that it's the mechanics of Japanese architecture that have been thought of as the direct influence upon our architecture.
~By Minoru Yamasaki ~
The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years.
~By Thomas Hardy ~
Elvis was a big influence to my music, but Loretta Lynn was, as well.
~By Tanya Tucker ~
I haven't really met anyone else who has influenced me, but you never know, it could happen next year or next month. I just like to go with the spur of the moment.
~By Robin Gibb ~
So, influenced by these advisors and this hope, I have at length allowed my friends to publish the work, as they had long besought me to do.
~By Nicolaus Copernicus ~
The only reason we make good role models is because you guys look up to athletes and we can influence you in positive ways. But the real role models should be your parents and teachers!
~By Dante Hall ~
I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.
~By Walt Whitman ~
The orbs create feedback loops that can influence either personal of employee behavior.
~By David Rose ~
My personal influence in the Revolutionary Governing Council is such that the dictatorship of the proletariat is firmly established, since the masses are backing me.
~By Bela Kun ~
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 ~
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