Influence Quotes · Page 35

Aamir Khan was a very big influence, I think, when my generation was growing up.

— Harshvardhan Kapoor

The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.

— Soren Kierkegaard

Mystery Science Theater is really a postmodern show, it's really derived of many influences.

— Joel Hodgson

You don't want to influence the same system you are trying to forecast.

— Nate Silver

Best friends aren't the ones who make you feel the best, it's the ones who bring out the best in you.

— Anonymous

I am the worst influence. If you can't handle your vices, then I am the Devil.

— Tori Amos

I can say without doubt, that reading has had a huge influence on my life.

— Tom Fletcher

David Bowie is such a big influence to me. Everything about him as a person is intriguing to me.

— Leona Lewis

The world can never be in the state of right order, strong government, and good influence unless London is truly and literally…

— Kedar Joshi

Failure is an option, but don't let it be yours, no matter how hard you fall, get back up and keep climbing…

— Rashida Rowe

There is to the poetical sense a ravishing prophecy and winsome intimation in flowers that now and then, from the influence of…

— Henry Theodore Tuckerman

As soon as a handful of scientists come up with an intervention shown to influence aging in other species, they begin selling…

— S. Jay Olshansky

Past and present, it is all the same, books are necromancers, they exercise an influence more varied, more lasting, than any magic…

— Holbrook Jackson

I don't think my father had a direct influence on me, but I do think, more or less, I was influenced by…

— Ai Weiwei

Most people believe that I LOVE YOU is the best thing you can say to anybody. But the truth is I LOVE…

— Murali Iyengar

What always made me proud - almost blushing with pride - is that Francis Coppola, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg all told me…

— Bernardo Bertolucci

When I post on Weibo, I try my best to post things that are aspirational and have a positive energy. I often…

— Yang Mi

I think East Asian countries, I think they're very fortunate to have Buddhism survive as a strong influence because right from the…

— Amartya Sen

I refuse to accept the idea that money is evil. People make things evil and negative. Some people love what money can…

— Aeriel Miranda

Since I first fell in love with choral music when I was 18 and began composing at 21, I've been listening to…

— Eric Whitacre

No matter what circumstances you sisters experience, your influence can be marvelously far-reaching. I believe some of you have a tendency to…

— James E. Faust

To me there are two Hitlers: one who existed until the end of the French war; the other begins with the Russian…

— Hermann Goring

We read so much about incompetence and corruption in all sorts of places. I'm not just thinking of the United Kingdom and…

— Colin Dexter

Really, all things and persons are related to us, but according to our nature, they act on us not at once, but…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

No love, nor friendship can cross the path of our destiny, without leaving some mark on it.

— Anonymous

The act of observing a quantum event probabalistically influences its outcome.

— Dean Radin

The pure and benign light of revelation has had a meliorating influence on mankind.

— George Washington

Nobody has had a bigger influence on me as far as day-to-day preparation than Todd Lickliter. He was a huge, huge, huge…

— Brad Stevens

Freddie Mercury and Elton John are, like, two of the biggest Influences in my whole life. And probably always will be.

— Axl Rose

Our parents have, by far, the greatest influence on shaping who we are and how we deal with the world.

— Mamie Gummer

Words don't have power to hurt you, unless that person means a lot to you.!!

— Anonymous

I grew up surrounded by strong women, and that was a very strong influence.

— Sebastian Lelio

Power and courtly influence form an intoxicating draught even when raised to the lips of an ascetic and a saint.

— James Fitzjames Stephen

The number of 'followers' you have does not make you better than anyone else. Hitler had millions, Jesus had 12.

— Anonymous

But why should I run for office and lose what little influence I have?

— Ron Silver

Research shows that parents are the single biggest influence on children - if you are worried about your teen and drugs, talk…

— John Walters

History and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican government.

— George Washington

“We need not have a position of influence to be a person of influence”

— Alan Fadling

We determine how much influence we'll have, when we decide how available we'll be.

— Bob Goff

Any area of my life for which I have no hope is under the influence of a lie.

— Bill Johnson