Influence Quotes
3440 quotes by 2202 authors
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I influence anybody who is able to get through the chaos of my first impression.
— Gary Vaynerchuk
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My father, a fine chess player himself, has been a massive influence throughout my life.
— Magnus Carlsen
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We greatly want a brief word to express the science of improving stock, which is by no means confined to questions of judicious mating, but…
— Francis Galton
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Many people think that when we practice agriculture, nature is helping us in our efforts to grow food. This is an exclusively human-centered viewpoint... we…
— Masanobu Fukuoka
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In addition to the artistic influences, I am influenced by my current private life, my feelings about it and my energy level and state of…
— Frank Auerbach
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I think that the very earliest influence was a horror of having to work in a bank or an office, a desire for a free…
— Frank Auerbach
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Influence people think about it as someone you like but influence is also what you're revolted by. In fact, often it's what you're running away…
— Marc Ribot
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Im not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers.
— Robert Wyatt
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I can't tell you any more than any other writer can tell you why they write, and I don't know what my influences are.
— Jean M. Auel
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I think some people would love to be able to make the clothes I make - and of course, I do influence them, but they…
— Vivienne Westwood
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Major League Baseball has always recognized the influence that our stars can have on the youth of America. As such, we are concerned that recent…
— Bud Selig
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So, to meditate is to purge the mind of its self-centered activity. And if you have come this far in meditation, you will find there…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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English is an outrageous tangle of those derivations and other multifarious linguistic influences, from Yiddish to Shoshone, which has grown up around a gnarly core…
— Roy Blount, Jr.
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The authority of the Supreme Court must not be permitted to control the Congress or the Executive when acting in their legislative capacities, but to…
— Andrew Jackson
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When a person hasn't in him that which is higher and stronger than all external influences, it is enough for him to catch a good…
— Anton Chekhov
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I wanted the influence. In the end I wasn't very good at being a president. I looked out of the window and thought that the…
— Warren G. Bennis
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And very often the influence exerted on a person's character by the amount of his income is hardly less, if it is less, than that…
— Alfred Marshall
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We have become a force of nature Not long ago, hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, drought, forest fires, even earthquakes and volcanic explosions were accepted as “natural…
— David Suzuki
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In any bureaucracy, the people devoted to the benefit of the bureaucracy itself always get in control, and those dedicated to the goals the bureaucracy…
— Jerry Pournelle
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I guess there might come a point when I will want to live an anonymous life. I'm only at the start of my career, so…
— Kimbra
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