Influence Quotes · Page 68

You can't write ... on the strength of influence. You can only write a good story or a good novel by yourself.

— Richard Ford

Todays happiness depends on yesterdays choice, just as todays choice will determine tomorrows happiness.

— Anonymous

Wisdom and compassion should become the dominating influences that guide our thoughts , our words, and our actions.

— Matthieu Ricard

Whole interaction between the storyteller and the listeners had a very powerful influence on me.

— Edwidge Danticat

Writing music always happened for me in periods when I wasn't under the influence of mind-altering substance.

— Anthony Kiedis

Every answer you seek is already somewhere in your circle of influence!

— Anonymous

I think the one person that has the most influence on me is the Lord.

— Melky Cabrera

I think I must write a book. It has been my cherished dream and I feel an influence that I cannot resist…

— Charles W. Chesnutt

I really think it's a white, bourgeois idea to pretend that you don't have influences. It seems to be the obsession strictly…

— Billy Corgan

The harsh reality is this: to have influence in the world, you need to be willing and able to reward your friends…

— Antonio Garcia Martinez

I jumped to the WWE, and the perceived notion was I became more successful. I got to touch more people's lives and…

— CM Punk

Your parents are always a big influence on you. They help you make you who you are. The main thing my parents…

— Amber Le Bon

THE INDUSTRIAL SYSTEM requires that prices be under effective control. And it seeks the greatest possible influence over what buyers take at…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

That's what I so admired about Johnny Cash and June Carter. Their music wasn't a big influence on me. It was their…

— Shelby Lynne

We used to go to church and, musically, I remember that being a massive influence. It had a band so it was…

— Jonathan Bailey

I think if you spend much time dwelling on influence you can get self-conscious about every line you write. That's a great…

— Ben Fountain

It sometimes happens to me while writing, that I seek a word; mischievous as it is it appears in English, it appears…

— Sami Michael

Hendrix was back there with a few of the others who were like my training wheels ... hearing him as a teenager…

— Junior Brown

The amazing thing about Sweets [Edison] was that he exactly spoke the way that he played! He was really unique, the one…

— Ray Brown

How then did we come to the "standard model"? And how has it supplanted other theories, like the steady state model? It…

— Steven Weinberg

It was inspiring to learn of the new Bachelor of Environmental Studies Program, and I congratulate you for it. Singapore is geographically…

— E. O. Wilson

Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities, but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No…

— Winston Churchill

“I want to give just a slight indication of the influence the book has had. I knew that George Orwell , in…

— Christopher Hitchens

People focus too much on whether there's a Democrat or a Republican in office. It's not like this guy Kim-Jong Un got…

— Bill Burr

Elvis was a big influence to my music, but Loretta Lynn was, as well.

— Tanya Tucker

Music is what I always turn to when Im feeling a certain way. It's my reason for everything.

— Anonymous

It's hard for me to show work while I'm writing, because other people's comments will influence what happens.

— Donna Tartt

If I've seen the movie, it means it's an influence on my own filmmaking. Every movie has a reflection in 'Night Watch.'

— Timur Bekmambetov

I think if you look at most successful people, if you ask most of them, their biggest influence was their dad.

— Tom Lehman

Im not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers.

— Robert Wyatt

The Beatles were a huge influence on me to write really good melodies.

— Kim Shattuck

Everybody has the power to make someone else happy. Some do it by entering the room, while some do it by leaving.

— Anonymous

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

— Henry Adams

But, for instance, when I was awfully young, I read all the Oz books. They were an enormous influence on me.

— Jack Vance

Any experienced player knows how a change in the character of the play influences your psychological mood.

— Garry Kasparov

No other single influence has had so great an impact on this earth as the life of Jesus the Christ.

— Ezra Taft Benson

Sometimes it's those little unexpected things in life that can make a big difference to us. Embrace and welcome the unexpected.

— Nishan Panwar

Word of mouth now has a unprecedented influence because it spreads so far and so fast.

— Alexis Ohanian

It is a maxim that no man was ever enslaved by influence while he was fit to be free.

— Samuel Johnson

No batch of 10 people will have as much an influence on the company as those first 10 people.

— John Collison