No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent.
~By William Ellery Channing ~
This was the period when I used all the influence I had to get the British to abandon their export trade, and as much as possible convert all of their manufacturing facilities to the immediate needs of the war, including civilian, as well as military requirements.
~By W. Averell Harriman ~
The Bee Gees were always heavily influenced by black music. As a songwriter, it's never been difficult to pick up on the changing styles of music out there, and soul has always been my favourite genre.
~By Robin Gibb ~
The most profound, tangible influence in my life has been my wife, Monique. I don't know that I would even be alive were it not for her, and I certainly would not be the person that I am today.
~By Edgar Winter ~
The future will be determined in part by happenings that it is impossible to foresee; it will also be influenced by trends that are now existent and observable.
~By Emily Greene Balch ~
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 ~
I'm a big fan of '70s records where artists could draw on whatever influences they wanted.
~By Deana Carter ~
My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time period along with the better of the well known blues musicians.
~By Walter Becker ~
But, for instance, when I was awfully young, I read all the Oz books. They were an enormous influence on me.
~By Jack Vance ~
Every soldier must know, before he goes into battle, how the little battle he is to fight fits into the larger picture, and how the success of his fighting will influence the battle as a whole.
~By Bernard Law Montgomery ~
People hear the soul, black influence in my voice. I grew up listening to CKLW and all the black stations like WLBS.
~By Madonna Ciccone ~
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 ~
To the extent that the United States has, I don't like the word hegemony, the United States has influence around the world, I don't think that's based on to any significant degree on the fact that countries use the dollar as their major reserve.
~By Robert C. Solomon ~
Nat King Cole was a really big influence.
~By Bryan White ~
I don't have any influences, any heroes, it's just me.
~By GG Allin ~
Sergio Leone was a big influence on me because of the spaghetti westerns.
~By Quentin Tarantino ~
It is manifestly vital to the success of the anti-slavery cause, that the authority and influence of proslavery, especially of slaveholding, ministers should be destroyed.
~By Gerrit Smith ~
Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
~By George Eliot ~
Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been know to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
As a people, we know what we can do, we know how to do it, and we just want to get on with it. How? By ensuring that Canada's place in the world is one of influence and pride.
~By Paul Martin ~
On the other hand, at some level the mass of unresolved issues in Northern Ireland does influence the fact that there are so many good writers in the place.
~By Paul Muldoon ~
As a great man's influence never ends, so also there is not definite finality, no end, to a great survey; it runs along for centuries, ever responsive to the strain of the increasing needs of a growing population and an enlarging domain.
~By Cleveland Abbe ~
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 ~
I listened to my record and hear lots of influences. And it's very rich... it's got a wide spectrum.
~By Chantal Kreviazuk ~
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
~By Mark Twain ~
The restriction of studies of human intellect and character to studies of conscious states was not without influence on a scientific studies of animal psychology.
~By Edward Thorndike ~
My biggest musical influences are probably my parents.
~By Bobby McFerrin ~
I feel I have a lot to learn from English football and I am completely open to good influences in my way of thinking football. But I also have things to give them.
~By Jose Mourinho ~
I really do believe in the influence of your surroundings.
~By Matt Sharp ~
I just have a lot off different influences.
~By Mose Allison ~
Every existence above a certain rank has its singular points; the higher the rank the more of them. At these points, influences whose physical magnitude is too small to be taken account of by a finite being may produce results of the greatest importance.
~By James C. Maxwell ~
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell, where his influence stops.
~By Henry Brooks Adams ~
That U.N. Security Council resolution requires getting Syrian troops and intelligence officials out of Lebanon so that the Lebanese can have elections here this spring that are free and fair and free of outside influence.
~By Stephen Hadley ~
I'd begun reading Crumb shortly before that, and other underground stuff, so that was an influence to some degree. Of course the Marvel and DC comics, they had been my main interests in my teenage years.
~By Chester Brown ~
I was always influenced by language.
~By Helen Dunmore ~
I mean I think that Blondie's influence is a little bit in a way more eclectic than those bands.
~By Debbie Harry ~
On a scale of the United States, the Hollywood influence on what comes out, that's not the majority views of across the country. What we read in Us Weekly or People magazine, or Entertainment Tonight, it's not what the majority of the country is thinking.
~By Kid Rock ~
I read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me.
~By Michael Caine ~
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 ~
Money motivates neither the best people, nor the best in people. It can move the body and influence the mind, but it cannot touch the heart or move the spirit; that is reserved for belief, principle, and morality.
~By Dee Hock ~
Ask everyone whether they're an actor or a doctor or a teacher or whatever is entitled to his or her opinion. But unfortunately, because actors are in the public eye, whether we want it or not, sometimes our opinions carry more weight or influence than they deserve.
~By Debra Messing ~
Did people think I sounded black? Totally, but that was a marketing tool as well, but also this is how I grew up and these are my influences.
~By Taylor Dayne ~
Postman is a media analyst and his theory is that television doesn't influence our culture, but that it is our culture and the presidency and anything that relies on television.
~By Val Kilmer ~
My whole life experience feeds into my writing. I think that must be true for every writer. Clearly the Army and combat were major influences; just the same, you need to understand that many of the writers we have now couldn't load a revolver.
~By Gene Wolfe ~
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 ~
My father had retained an emotional affection for the ceremonial of his parental home, without allowing it to influence his intellectual freedom.
~By Franz Boas ~
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 ~
Advertising reflects the mores of society, but it does not influence them.
~By David Ogilvy ~
I'm quite influenced in this by one of my heroes, Montaigne, who thought a man's real task was to render as honest an account of himself as he could.
~By Robert Sheckley ~
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 ~
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 ~
So as far as Serbia is concerned, it does not have the right to influence the privatization or to claim any property, because Kosovo is a former member of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
~By Ibrahim Rugova ~
One of my great influences was Don Knotts as Barney Fife.
~By Martin Short ~
Well, I think the president is going to do well in terms of his influence for positive change here in the Congress, making sure that we don't overspend, making sure that we spend for only those programs that are justified.
~By Thad Cochran ~
I don't flatter myself with much dependence upon the present disposition of the Eastern Indians, who are many ways liable to be drawn into a rupture with us by the artifices of the French, their own weakness and the influence which the French Missionary Priests have over them.
~By William Shirley ~
Time control directly influences the quality of play.
~By Boris Spassky ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 other writer who had a very important early influence on me when I was about 17 was C.S. Lewis.
~By Tanith Lee ~
But you'd have a job to find many of my poems which would seem to be very influenced by a particular person.
~By Norman MacCaig ~
People always ask about my influences, and they cite a bunch of people I've never heard of.
~By Norton Juster ~
If you met my dad, I think a lot of things would be put to rest. Because my pops is a pretty silly guy. But, Coldcut, they're based in the U.K. I'm a big fan of jazz music, so American music has had a big influence on what I listen to.
~By Eric San ~
There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
~By Edmund Burke ~
There was a writer in the '20s called Christopher Morley, who I remember a little bit of, who had some influence on me, but I couldn't tell you what it was.
~By Jack Vance ~
Of all presidential perks, the pardon power has a special significance. It is just the kind of authority that would attract the special attention of someone obsessed with himself and his own ability to influence events.
~By Barbara Olson ~
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 suppose I'm most influenced by any good, commercial writer. I learn from everyone.
~By Nicholas Sparks ~
I would like the Medical Society to be one of the resources for information about the influences that have an impact on our patients and our practices.
~By Samuel Wilson ~
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 ~
People feel that decisions about their jobs, the way their children are educated, how their church functions, and products they buy are made by someone and some place so distant that they can't find anybody to talk to that has any influence over them.
~By Robert Teeter ~
The crowd may be influenced easily, largely because it is a crowd.
~By Ivor Novello ~
It's hard for me to show work while I'm writing, because other people's comments will influence what happens.
~By Donna Tartt ~
Since the age of 12, all my musical thinking has been influenced by Afro-American music.
~By Alexis Korner ~
Certainly my parents were a huge influence. They always expected the most out of all of us. And expected us to do our very best. I'm thankful to them for allowing me to do what I wanted to do.
~By Laurel Clark ~
The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
~By E. M. Forster ~
As a songwriter, I was influenced by David Bowie - a great writer. A class above everybody in so many ways. Lennon and McCartney, of course. Class stuff. David Cousins was my favorite lyricist.
~By Rick Wakeman ~
I hope we can keep doing it this way - making music and art that are pure products of our influences while not really having to let the whole celebrity side of it get in the way. Then maybe more virtual bands will come out and do the same thing.
~By Damon Albarn ~
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 ~
What we call soul has been around a long time. It comes out of a particular culture that is African in origin, but influenced by 250 years of slavery, as well as other forms of racial oppression.
~By Roy Ayers ~
During the Fifties, political and military activities in Vietnam were heavily influenced by the French, who as recent colonial masters, made all-important decisions.
~By Nguyen Cao Ky ~
In France, for instance, one magazine writer was convinced that On The Road had been a huge influence on Lost Souls and was crushed to learn that I hadn't read the one until after I'd written the other.
~By Poppy Z. Brite ~
I love Tina Turner. I'm one of Tina Turner's biggest fans. Tina Turner was a big influence on me to become a singer. A role model and in a way she gave me back my confidence in choosing my material.
~By Bonnie Tyler ~
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 ~
The songs are not necessarily autobiographical. A lot of songs are a combination of influences. It might be some part of my life, or something I've felt, or something somebody's told me. It all comes together.
~By Tracy Chapman ~
Is it experimental to have been influenced by the Bible? By Saint Augustine?
~By Marguerite Young ~
In the beginning you must subject yourself to the influence of nature. You must be able to walk firmly on the ground before you start walking on a tightrope.
~By Henri Matisse ~
The most powerful moral influence is example.
~By Huston Smith ~
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 ~
Geez, I wish I could tell you I had a whole bunch of '80s hair bands, you know something you really wouldn't expect, but I don't know that the music police would be that surprised, because most of the stuff that I am influenced by is in evidence in the music.
~By John Sebastian ~
I can't say I feel influenced by today's guitar players.
~By Robin Trower ~
Time perspective is one of the most powerful influences on all of human behavior. We're trying to show how people become biased to being exclusively past-, present- or future-oriented.
~By Philip Zimbardo ~
Working lives are for the state to influence. Unemployment makes people unhappy. So does instability.
~By Polly Toynbee ~
Make no mistake about it: Next to parents and families, our teachers are the most important influence in our children's lives.
~By Kenny Guinn ~
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 ~
None of my own experiences ever finds its way into my work. However, the stages of my life - motherhood, middle age, etc. - often influence my subject matter.
~By Anne Tyler ~
Children have in the past and continue to influence policy makers.
~By Carol Bellamy ~
Billy Wilder is really is a heavy influence on Bound. We felt that film noir was a genre where you could create a really contained story. We wanted to be on a set as much as we could to get the kind of style level we were looking for.
~By Larry Wachowski ~
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 ~
My current mantra is that sometimes we need teachers in our lives. I never had that in my life, parents and stuff like that; I tried to stay on the outside of them or anybody that had that kind of influence.
~By Taylor Dayne ~
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