Influenced Quotes

656 Influenced quotes by 595 unique authors

It wasn't so much that I had to leave to make it in the music business as I was curious to be out on my… — Matthew Sweet
The peoples influenced by the animal dance have a variety of movements and dance with enthusiasm; those who do not know the animal dance have… — Curt Sachs
People today are desperate for leaders, but they want to be influenced only by individuals they can trust, persons of good character. — John C. Maxwell
Buildings are deeply emotive structures which form our psyche. People think they're just things they maneuver through, but the makeup of a person is influenced… — David Adjaye
Those who influenced me the most are not those who pointed out all my faults, but those who knew God was bigger than my shortcomings.… — Phil Callaway
I was greatly influenced by one of my teachers. She had a zeal not so much for perfection as for steady betterment-she demanded not excellence… — Edward R. Murrow
Sex is difficult, yes. But they are difficult things with which we have been charged...If you only recognize this and manage out of yourself, out… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Generally speaking, men are influenced by books which clarify their own thought, which express their own notions well, or which suggest to them ideas which… — Carl L. Becker
I'm quite influenced in this by one of my heroes, Montaigne, who thought a man's real task was to render as honest an account of… — Robert Sheckley
The plain man is familiar with blindness and deafness, and knows from his everyday experience that the look of things is influenced by his senses;… — Ernst Mach
People exercise an unconscious selection in being influenced. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Every art, like our own, has in its composition fluctuating as well as fixed principles. It is an attentive inquiry into their difference that will… — Joshua Reynolds
Since the age of 12, all my musical thinking has been influenced by Afro-American music. — Alexis Korner
The Social Citizen is the best, most thorough, and most methodologically sophisticated treatment of the role of social networks in political behavior that I have… — James H. Fowler
It’s a shame, sort of a waste, that most people are influenced by what the newspaper supplements tell them is the book they are meant… — Steve Aylett
Saddam Hussein, influenced by fascism, ordered the deaths of tens of thousands of people, fought two disastrous wars, turned his nation into an international pariah… — Ted Rall
I can't say I feel influenced by today's guitar players. — Robin Trower
The more good ideas you collect, the more you can choose from to be influenced by. — Austin Kleon
The modern writer who has influenced me most is W. Somerset Maugham . — George Orwell
First-generation children were strongly influenced by their immigrant parents approach to choice. For them, choice was not just a way of defining and asserting their… — Sheena Iyengar
Art has definitely influenced how I think of design, both as individual items and as a body of work. — Cynthia Rowley
I haven't really met anyone else who has influenced me, but you never know, it could happen next year or next month. I just like… — Robin Gibb
It's definitely an influence, I mean how can you not say you are influenced to play rock. — Mike Lowry
What we call soul has been around a long time. It comes out of a particular culture that is African in origin, but influenced by… — Roy Ayers
I'm mostly influenced by life, what's around me, and my own childhood. — Jack Prelutsky

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