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 ~
I've been as bad an influence on American literature as anyone I can think of.
~By Dashiell Hammett ~
The films that have influenced me and the films that have motivated me and inspired me were films that resonated, films that made me think after I saw them.
~By Eriq La Salle ~
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 ~
During this period, I became interested in how the new techniques of cloning and sequencing DNA could influence the study of genetics and I was an early and active proponent of the Human Genome Sequencing Project.
~By Sydney Brenner ~
There would never have been a British Ballet without Diaghilev. He had a wonderful influence.
~By Ninette de Valois ~
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 ~
It is easier to influence strong than weak characters in life.
~By Margot Asquith ~
When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, and the influence of her power it is in vain to resist.
~By Akhenaton ~
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 ~
I wanted to pay tribute to my musical influences: Buffalo Springfield, Lightfoot, the Beatles, the Hollies.
~By Dan Fogelberg ~
Our analysis of truth and falsehood, or of the nature of judgment, is not very likely to be influenced by our hopes and fears.
~By Charles D. Broad ~
Everything that you read is an influence on everything you write, and you want to draw as many elements into your work as you can.
~By Walter Jon Williams ~
The forbidden things were a great influence on my life. I was forbidden from reading A Catcher in the Rye.
~By Amy Tan ~
The problem is that when government controls the economy, those who can influence government keep winning, and everybody else just stays the same.
~By Marco Rubio ~
Man cannot influence in this respect the atomic forces of Nature.
~By Frederick Soddy ~
I'm really influenced by so many different things.
~By Alex Winter ~
As far as spiritual influences in Christian music, I would say Crystal Lewis - a lot of her songs especially. The ministry she has through her songs has really hit me.
~By Stacie Orrico ~
Obviously, all of us have been influenced by those around us.
~By Tom G. Palmer ~
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 ~
The future influences the present just as much as the past.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
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 ~
A lot of people give in to those pressures and let others influence the process on their second albums because they want to achieve the success they had with their first again, but they don't know how to do it.
~By Vanessa Carlton ~
I don't really have a favorite bass player. I listen to a lot of bluegrass. But then again, I'm not a typical bluegrass bass player. I was really into the Grateful Dead, and I still am - I don't listen to them too much, but for me they are a big influence.
~By Mike Gordon ~
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 ~
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 ~
The first movie I saw - and I don't know if it influenced me - was Ben Hur. We watched it outside in a corn field, and it ran backwards, so the first movie I ever saw was Ben Hur backwards.
~By Roberto Benigni ~
Kennedy lied and lied about his health while he was alive, even using his father's influence to get into the Navy without ever taking a medical examination.
~By Richard Reeves ~
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 ~
There are a lot of people who influenced me, nurtured me, helped me along the way. But I can just recall looking back, the first time I got my baseball glove. Put it on the wrong hand, all those kind of things.
~By Dave Winfield ~
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 ~
I'm not going to rule out running for a second term. But, I think you have to be psychologically prepared to walk away from the job after four years. It's the only way that you cannot be influenced by those special interests.
~By Dick Murphy ~
An artist's sphere of influence is the world.
~By Carl Maria von Weber ~
Perseverance is an active principle, and cannot continue to operate but under the influence of desire.
~By William Godwin ~
Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
~By Robert Louis Stevenson ~
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 ~
Parents don't need government to raise their kids. That's their job. But government can help them protect their children from influences they may not want their kids exposed to.
~By Rod Blagojevich ~
The orbs create feedback loops that can influence either personal of employee behavior.
~By David Rose ~
As soon as I was old enough to drive, I got a job at a local newspaper. There was someone who influenced me. He wrote a column for The Guardian from this tiny village in India.
~By Nicholas D. Kristof ~
Obviously we're a consumer nation and you have the power to influence these big corporations who are running the world right now through what you chose to, or not to, purchase.
~By Daryl Hannah ~
What I used to play was rhythm guitar before I saw Jack Bruce. I said, That's what I want to do in life. He was definitely the main influence.
~By Geezer Butler ~
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 ~
I definitely get affected by new stuff. There's a lot of older influences, but there's also newer stuff too.
~By Nuno Bettencourt ~
Also, people are not often aware of the way the United States' policies influence what happens in places like Haiti or El Salvador or Nicaragua. Or in Columbia right now.
~By Edwidge Danticat ~
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 ~
I had furthermore spoken on the assumption that Russia would mobilize, whereas the assumption of the German Government had hitherto been, officially, that Serbia would receive no support; and what I had said must influence the German Government to take the matter seriously.
~By Edward Grey ~
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 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 ~
In jazz, there is a lot of European influence harmonically.
~By Dexter Gordon ~
In fact, an awful lot of N.F.L. club owners have practically no influence on their players at all, simply because they're not full-time working owners.
~By Pete Rozelle ~
I'm proud of my mentors. Ray Charles is the strongest influence on me as a singer.
~By Michael Bolton ~
The piece that had a large influence on me was Turangalila.
~By Harrison Birtwistle ~
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 ~
Chick Corea was a great influence on me, musically, as I was growing up.
~By Debra Wilson ~
I buy records from all across the board. I get kind of a hybrid of influences in my own music.
~By Jason Mraz ~
Only let the North exert as much moral influence over the South, as the South has exerted demoralizing influence over the North, and slavery would die amid the flame of Christian remonstrance, and faithful rebuke, and holy indignation.
~By Angelina Grimke ~
Mystery Science Theater is really a postmodern show, it's really derived of many influences.
~By Joel Hodgson ~
Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.
~By Walt Disney ~
I brought samples in, because I didn't have any comic book samples, and I brought all these illustrations that I had influenced by Norman Rockwell and a couple of the other big boys. That's all I had, that's all I brought.
~By Dan DeCarlo ~
I went through a big Alice Cooper phase, which was probably a major influence on my writing style later, especially after Plastic Surgery Disasters.
~By Jello Biafra ~
One would have to have completely forgotten the history of science so as to not remember that the desire to know nature has had the most constant and the happiest influence on the development of mathematics.
~By Henri Poincare ~
The Italian prose tale had begun to exercise that influence as early as Chaucer's time: but circumstances and atmosphere were as yet unfavourable for its growth.
~By George Saintsbury ~
This was totally influenced by me and the direction that I am writing about and the stuff that I am writing about. There is just no way that you can be as intense as what I have been through in my life over a drum beat machine, sample, or loop; it's just not going to happen.
~By Vanilla Ice ~
As such people achieve influence within the organization, whenever there is a conflict between their own interest and the interest of the organization, their interests will win out.
~By Robert Shea ~
I mean I think that Blondie's influence is a little bit in a way more eclectic than those bands.
~By Debbie Harry ~
If, however, the success of a politician is to be measured by the degree in which he is able personally to influence the course of politics, and attach to himself a school of political thought, then Mr. Mill, in the best meaning of the words, has succeeded.
~By Millicent Fawcett ~
I've always been the first to admit that Jimi was a very big influence on my early stuff.
~By Robin Trower ~
No, generally I think influence is used as a nice word for plagiarism.
~By Gilbert Gottfried ~
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 ~
My older kids are fantastic people. It can't be the result of my influence on them.
~By Harrison Ford ~
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 ~
Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence.
~By Henri Frederic Amiel ~
I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
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 ~
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 ~
I was always influenced by language.
~By Helen Dunmore ~
He knows I rip him off every day. He's the godfather for me. Nobody can say they aren't influenced by what Stevie Wonder has done.
~By Brian McKnight ~
In addition to their power over government based on government financing and personal influence, bankers could steer governments in ways they wished them to go by other pressures.
~By Carroll Quigley ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
The orchestration of press, radio and television to create a continuous, lasting and total environment renders the influence of propaganda virtually unnoticed precisely because it creates a constant environment.
~By Jacques Ellul ~
It's definitely an influence, I mean how can you not say you are influenced to play rock.
~By Mike Lowry ~
One always hopes that you're going to have influence and staying power, but you never know.
~By Chris Frantz ~
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 ~
One of the things that's influenced me musically was my experience at Brown University. I was surrounded by musicians that I really admired, and felt challenged to come up with music, lyrics, and recordings that stood up to the expectations of those musicians and myself.
~By Lisa Loeb ~
Yes, influences are enriching, and they can be found in every work of art, even the most original.
~By Lukas Foss ~
I felt that I had been influenced by being in the city enough and I wanted to go off by myself to see what was going on. I remember going out there and looking in the mirror and thinking I wasn't anything.
~By Roscoe Mitchell ~
That is, we are bombarded by all kinds of images and influences and we have to fend some of them off if we're to take in any of them, or to carry through just our ordinary day's work, or really deepen whatever we have to do or say.
~By Robert Jay Lifton ~
No, I feel like my personality probably influenced the character, more than the character influenced me.
~By Sara Gilbert ~
As the society has gotten larger and more complex, individuals have lost their ability to influence any of the institutions that affect their lives.
~By Robert Teeter ~
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 ~
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 influences were Peter Sellers and the great British character actors.
~By Tracey Ullman ~
I've never been able to say I've been influenced by a list of artists I like because I like thousands and thousands and I've been influenced in some way by all of them.
~By Jack Nicholson ~
We are always going to be influenced by America... I watched the word 'bum' go out and 'butt' come in. And part of me says, oh that's a shame, but Aussie boys are still Aussie boys.
~By Bryan Brown ~
There is an atmosphere about the picture theatre that speaks of entertainment and relaxation. The charming surroundings, good music, and the fact that each visitor is determined to enjoy a few hours of holiday all exert an influence on the mind.
~By Ivor Novello ~
Most books, like their authors, are born to die; of only a few books can it be said that death has no dominion over them; they live, and their influence lives forever.
~By William Styron ~
If we cannot by reason, by influence, by example, by strenuous effort, and by personal sacrifice, mend the bad places of civilization, we certainly cannot do it by force.
~By Auberon Herbert ~
The U.S. along with China, Japan, South Korea and Russia has an important role to play in containing North Korea's nuclear ambitions and exerting all the influence we can possibly exert.
~By Zach Wamp ~
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