Influence Quotes

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Big business depends entirely on the patronage of those who buy its products: the biggest enterprises loses its power and its influence when it loses… — Ludwig von Mises
The other writer who had a very important early influence on me when I was about 17 was C.S. Lewis. — Tanith Lee
The most fundamental in me is coming uppermost, and the transient, the sensational, is dispersing, because it can't adversely influence what is essential to me. — Oskar Kokoschka
There is no task of greater importance than to give our children the very best preparation for the demands of an ominous future, a preparation… — Bruno Walter
Only let the North exert as much moral influence over the South, as the South has exerted demoralizing influence over the North, and slavery would… — Angelina Grimke
The real beginning of influence comes as others sense you are being influenced by them - when they feel understood by you - that you… — Stephen Covey
But I am influenced by the world that says I influence it. The world I live in is my influence. — Kenzo Takada
Every living being is an engine geared to the wheelwork of the universe. Though seemingly affected only by its immediate surrounding, the sphere of external… — Nikola Tesla
The human being is a self-propelled automaton entirely under the control of external influences. Willful and predetermined though they appear, his actions are governed not… — Nikola Tesla
The intercourse between the Mediterranean and the North or between the Atlantic and Central Europe was never purely economic or political; it also meant the… — Christopher Dawson
In fact it is remarkable that this theory has had progressively greater influence on the spirit of researchers, following a series of discoveries in different… — Pope John Paul II
There are three influences which appear to Us to have the chief place in effecting this downgrade movement of society. These are-first, the distaste for… — Pope Leo XIII
Furthermore, the study of the present surroundings is insufficient: the history of the people, the influence of the regions through which it has passed on… — Franz Boas
My father had retained an emotional affection for the ceremonial of his parental home, without allowing it to influence his intellectual freedom — Franz Boas
You cannot force commitment, what you can doâ€¦You nudge a little here, inspire a little there, and provide a role model.Â Your primary influence is… — Peter Senge
Influence is like water. Always flowing somewhere. — Gary Hamel
Hendrix was back there with a few of the others who were like my training wheels ... hearing him as a teenager taught me to… — Junior Brown
... Everything we (the Grateful Dead) ever did was a demonstration of the value of cross-fertilization, It was unconscious at first, but when we started… — Phil Lesh
If then, said I, the question is put to me would I rather have a miserable ape for a grandfather or a man highly endowed… — Thomas Huxley
A Strat was a thing of wonder .. when I was 14 or 15, the Shadows were a big influence, and they had the first… — Mark Knopfler

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