Great Influence Quotes
28 quotes by 28 authors
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If there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake, clearly this must be the good. Will not…
— Aristotle
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It is much to be lamented that a man of Franklin's general good character and great influence should have been an unbeliever in Christianity, and…
— Benjamin Franklin
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The theoretical side of physical chemistry is and will probably remain the dominant one; it is by this peculiarity that it has exerted such a…
— Svante Arrhenius
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We have now the remarkable spectacle that just when many scientific men are agreed that there is no part of the Darwinian system that is…
— Thomas Dwight
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Of course my father was a great influence on me. He taught me how to read.
— Michael Foot
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Tom [Collins] was a great influence on me. He really pushed me...constantly demanded rewrites. And, as much as I despised them, it was the best…
— Dean Dillon
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Food probably has a very great influence on the condition of men. Wine exercises a more visible influence, food does it more slowly but perhaps…
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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My mother studied English and drama at the University of Pennsylvania, where my father studied architecture. She was a great influence in all sorts of…
— Donald Barthelme
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I think playing a horn has had a great influence on my singing. I've tried to approach singing from an instrumental mindset. Space is just…
— Susan Tucker
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Dr. Parent has been a great influence on my mental game. ZEN GOLF is the best book at connecting golf and the mind together. It's…
— Vijay Singh
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I always sang when I was little and my father, who was a great influence on me, also had a wonderful voice. He and my…
— Judy Collins
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Chick Corea was a great influence on me, musically, as I was growing up.
— Debra Wilson
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Theosophy occupies a central place in the history of new spiritual movements, for the writings of Blavatsky and some of her followers have had a…
— Robert S Ellwood
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My grandmother had great influence on me. She was secretary of state in the 1970's, and that's when I was born. She showed me the…
— Stephanie Herseth Sandlin
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Writers, especially when they act in a body and with one direction, have great influence on the public mind.
— Edmund Burke
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A great influence in my life was the sanctified or Holiness churches...Everybody in there sang and they clapped and stomped heir feet and sang with…
— Mahalia Jackson
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Dick Clark was a really great influence in my career; he helped me a lot with his whole organization, and they were awesome to me…
— Cyndi Lauper
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When I was starting to write, the great influence was T.S. Eliot and after that William Butler Yeats.
— Howard Nemerov
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The forbidden things were a great influence on my life. I was forbidden from reading A Catcher in the Rye.
— Amy Tan
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Figure skating has been a great influence for me. I took dance at the School of American Ballet, which helped my own skating. And whether…
— Vera Wang
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