Influence Quotes · Page 53

Working lives are for the state to influence. Unemployment makes people unhappy. So does instability.

— Polly Toynbee

There are major influences on us that people are not aware of. There are big lies that nobody's willing to discuss.

— Jack Nicholson

If you can influence five people, fantastic. If you can influence five hundred people, fantastic. It's all important.

— Laurie David

Billionaires who want to influence politics could get better 'returns on investment' than from early stage Amazon.

— Dominic Cummings

If the influence of luck is a delusion, then all I can say is that the delusion is virtually universal.

— Felix Dennis

Perseverance is an active principle, and cannot continue to operate but under the influence of desire.

— William Godwin

There are leaders and there are those who lead. Leaders hold a position of power or influence. Those who lead inspire us.

— Simon Sinek

Whether you know it or not, your thoughts are responsible for whatever place or situation you are in right now.

— Senora Roy

It is still worth talking to Iran to see if there is a way through and to prevent the huge rivalry between…

— Jeremy Hunt

Television and comic books are, and continue to be, probably the biggest influence in my life. It's the biggest influence on everybody's…

— Gene Simmons

The time has come for all evangelists to practice full financial disclosure. The world is watching how we walk and how we…

— Billy Graham

I had a number of great teachers and the ones that really were the strongest influences on me were women. They were…

— Meryl Streep

The more I run, the more I want to run, and the more I live a life conditioned and influenced and fashioned…

— George A. Sheehan

The photographer must bear the responsibility for his work and its effect …[for] photographic journalism, because of its tremendous audience reached by…

— W. Eugene Smith

Whether you speak English, Spanish, Chinese, Russian, everybody can speak wrestling and it's really cool to go to different cultures and societies…

— Jake Hager

Influence is a very unpleasant subject and I deal with it in a maybe irresponsible way, which is to really ignore it.…

— Rem Koolhaas

There were 16 people in the race, including a number of governors, and there's only one left. And I think that at…

— John Kasich

The most dramatic instances of directed behavior change and "mind control" are not the consequence of exotic forms of influence, such as…

— Anonymous

Ken Griffey changed the game, but he also represented pop culture and the youth - how he wore his hat backwards, how…

— Russell Wilson

It is in vain that we would circumscribe the power of one half of our race, and that half by far the…

— Frances Wright

I like to believe that everyone is born with the same skill set, and that it is the influences that one comes…

— Ron Perlman

The musical flags of the world should fly at half mast because truly one of the greatest guitarists in the world and…

— Stevie Wonder

At Apple, people are putting in 18-hour days. We attract a different type of person—a person who doesn’t want to wait five…

— Steve Jobs

I'll say that this is probably the best time for poetry since the T'ang dynasty. All the rest of the world is…

— Sam Hamill

It is said that the propriety even of old Cato often yielded to the exciting influence of the grape.

— Horace

The unexpressed aim of every politician is to influence events that history books will record his name - and spell it right.

— Judy LaMarsh

The point of my work is to show that culture and education aren't simply hobbies or minor influences.

— Pierre Bourdieu

“Family has the greatest influence, but friends make the greatest impact.”

— Katie Kacvinsky

...the influence of the factory upon the physiological and mental state of the workers has been completely neglected.

— Alexis Carrel

I most certainly think we are influencing the way women think about themselves.

— Kam Williams

I feel very conscious of my influences. T.H. White is very important for me.

— Lev Grossman

Addiction doesn't kill the addict. It kills the family, kids and people who tried to help!

— Abhishek Tiwari

I don't think anybody can with a straight face say that the Russians did not set out to influence our election, and…

— Stephen Colbert

By thinking and acting affirmatively in this minute, you will influence the hour, the day, and in time, your entire life.

— Denis Waitley

You can be a model to the masses, but to go to the higher levels of influence, you have to work with…

— John C. Maxwell

You're in the democratic West now, lady. Anybody's as good as anybody else as long as he's got the dough to prove…

— Leslie Ford

I do own CDs by Neil Young, Leonard Cohen, and Joni Mitchell, but I don't think of them as being major influences…

— James Arthur

I love politics. If you're not involved, part of the debate, you can't influence anything.

— Tanni Grey-Thompson

Elvis was a way bigger influence than Waylon Jennings, but you don't wanna tell people, 'I never really listened to Waylon.'

— Sturgill Simpson

I can't tell you any more than any other writer can tell you why they write, and I don't know what my…

— Jean M. Auel