Influence Quotes · Page 72

I hated discussing ideas with investors, because then I become a Defender of the Idea, and that influences your thought process.

— Michael Burry

If video games make you violent, does monopoly make you a millionaire?

— Anonymous

I love cooking Italian food. My dad is Italian, although my dishes also have my mum's German-Polish influence.

— Jack Savoretti

Righteous women in their circle of influence, beginning in the home, can turn the world around.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

The Church has failed to be a positive influence for good in our nation and our world.

— Tony Evans

Your state of mind determines outcome of your endeavor. If you want success start thinking you are on way to success.

— Anil Sinha

My dad was my first influence. He played classical guitar and my uncle Ron played the blues.

— Jason Becker

The best leaders lead through influence and collaboration,regardless of their title.

— Doug McMillon

I've always said to people that auteurism is nice, but it's hypothetical, and gradually you learn how much or how little influence…

— Andrew Sarris

Ross McDonald had a greater influence on me than any other writer. His style of writing, the repeated theme of the past…

— Michael Connelly

Guilt has always its horrors and solicitudes; and, to make it yet more shameful and detestable, it is doomed often to stand…

— Samuel Johnson

We must not fail to recognise that television can be a hugely positive influence in children's lives, one of the greatest educators…

— Robert Winston

Don't take to heart what they are saying. Let them think whatever they want to think about you. Know yourself and don't…

— Anonymous

Be reflective...and stay away from the theater as much as you can. Stay out of the theatrical world, out of its petty…

— Minnie Maddern Fiske

The people who influence us most are not those who buttonhole us and talk to us, but those who live their lives…

— Oswald Chambers

In sleep, fantasy takes the form of dreams. But in waking life, too, we continue to dream beneath the threshold of consciousness,…

— Carl Jung

When you're growing up, it's always nice to have someone you can relate and look up to. I'm proud of how I…

— Victor Ortiz

One theme of what I've been writing has been to get people to understand that "apolitical" means "you lose." It doesn't mean…

— Lawrence Lessig

Personally, I’ve gotten so that I now use a kind of two-track analysis. First, what are the factors that really govern the…

— Charlie Munger

This priesthood became a closed group, able to control enormous wealth and incomes, and concerned very largely with the study of the…

— Carroll Quigley

Big money buys access in Washington, and access purchases influence. It is as simple as that. And they have basically given a…

— Mark Shields

Except for those few Christians who hold that Christians should have nothing to do with government and hence cannot attempt to influence…

— Harold O. J. Brown

Now imagine a world in which everyone, but especially people with power and influence, holds an expanded view of our place in…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

The Council on Foreign Relations is "the establishment." Not only does it have influence and power in key decision-making positions at the…

— John Rarick

The Beatles had an influence on everybody. You have to realize what an incredible explosion the Beatles were.

— Lemmy Kilmister

The West sometimes doesn't understand Bollywood, but they can definitely understand how Bollywood influences people.

— Anurag Kashyap

Its amazing how quickly your mood can change, how deep your heart can sink and how much one person can affect you.

— Anonymous

“The pessimist reason that things just happen, where the optimist believe that things happen for a reason.”

— Anthony Liccione

The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before he is born.

— Anonymous

The poet's habit of living should be set on a key so low that the common influences should delight him.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I really like films that don't let the score influence the tone too much.

— Riley Stearns

I was a jazz major in high school, in an all-jazz band. No matter what I do, it features my musical influences.

— Wyclef Jean

Delia Smith is, actually, my bete noire. I consider her a most pernicious influence.

— Roger Scruton

Look, the Jamaican dancehall stuff, the reggae influences and the ska influence, are always going to be part of our DNA.

— Tony Kanal

But at a certain point, you have to take your influence and find your own voice if you want to become a…

— Edward Burns

Today, Academies of Science use their influence around the world in support of human rights.

— John Charles Polanyi

Without love, there can be no connection, no future, and no success together.

— John C. Maxwell

The future is not inevitable. We can influence it, if we know what we want it to be.

— Charles Handy

How am I influencing so many people on this stage rather than influencing the ones that I have back home?

— Kendrick Lamar

My earliest influence was Shakespeare - I read Shakespeare incessantly as a kid.

— Don Winslow