I have heard many arguments which influenced my opinion…

The majority of people who fail to accumulate money sufficient for their needs are, generally, easily influenced by the opinion of others.

— Napoleon Hill

“I find that a duck's opinion of me is very much influenced by whether or not I happen to have bread.”

— Mitch Hedburg

Show people your stuff, listen carefully to their responses, but ultimately don't value anyone's opinion above your own. Be influenced by writers you dislike…

— Alex Garland

I find a duck's opinion of me is very much influenced by whether or not I have bread.

— Mitch Hedberg

If you want to get each individual's honest opinion, you don't want that opinion to be influenced by others who are present, much less…

— Thomas Sowell

Your opinion is not influenced by anyone when you're alone at a matinee. It's just you and the movie.

— Alison Brie

One argument goes that recessions are good for female artists because when money flies out the window, women are allowed in the house. The…

— Jerry Saltz

On the stage, the characters express themselves more through words than images. So the arguments of the characters and the tension between characters -…

— Alan Alda

The inner defenses are unconscious. They consist of a kind of magic aura which the mind builds around cherished belief. Arguments which penetrate into…

— Arthur Koestler

There could be no more powerful argument against mixing religion and government than the success of independent African American churches in placing racial segregation…

— Susan Jacoby

As opposed to getting into arguments about, well, these folks have been treated fairly so now we're going to be doing things that, very…

— Barack Obama

Any comprehensive doctrine, religious or secular, can be introduced into any political argument at any time, but I argue that people who do this…

— John Rawls

Lutherans, whose arguments and mistakes will not be difficult to contest or discover, do not want to attribute any value to works, and they…

— Michael Servetus

Preaching to the choir actually arms the choir with arguments and elevates the choir's discourse. There's a reason the right does it and does…

— Dan Savage

A flourishing, morally credible media is a vital component in the maintenance of genuinely public talk, argument about common good.

— Rowan Williams