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557 Influences quotes by 480 unique authors
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Bad writers have influences. Good writers steal.
— S.M. Stirling
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Nothing influences our ability to cope with the difficulties of our existence so much as the context in which we view them; the more contexts…
— Theodore Zeldin
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I am fooling only myself when I say that my mother exists now only in the photographs on my bulletin board or in the outline…
— Hope Edelman
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The so-called symptoms of disease are manifestations of an inherent principle of the organism to restore healthy function and to resist offending agents and influences.
— Herbert M. Shelton
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I just want to be told a story, and I want to believe I'm living that story, and I don't give a thought to influences…
— Anne Tyler
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Marihuana influences Negroes to look at white people in the eye, step on white men's shadows and look at a white woman twice.
— Harry J. Anslinger
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Structure influences behavior. Design spaces that make you feel "you are welcome here and that you came to the right place."
— Peter Block
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The supreme crime of the church to-day is that everywhere and in all its operations and influences it is on the side of sloth of…
— Upton Sinclair
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Engrossed late and soon in professional cares, getting and spending, you may may so lay waste your powers that you may find, too late, with…
— William Osler
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Any experienced player knows how a change in the character of the play influences your psychological mood.
— Garry Kasparov
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LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Consider prejudice. Once a person begins to accept a stereotype of a particular group, that "thought" becomes an active agent, "participating" in shaping how he…
— Peter Senge
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Among the appliances to transform the people, sound and appearances are but trivial influences.
— Confucius
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The more sincerity is developed, the greater share of truth you will have. And however much sincerity a person may have, there is always a…
— Hazrat Inayat Khan
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My whole life experience feeds into my writing. I think that must be true for every writer. Clearly the Army and combat were major influences;…
— Gene Wolfe
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There were influences in my life that were more important than journalism, such as comic strips and radio.
— Guillermo Cabrera Infante
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I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism.
— Don DeLillo
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To see a man fearless in dangers, untainted with lusts, happy in adversity, composed in a tumult, and laughing at all those things which are…
— Seneca the Younger
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Janis Joplin is definitely one of my biggest influences. She taught me how to feel music, and I don't think there's anyone like her that…
— LeAnn Rimes
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The computer age has arrived, and it influences everything: analysis, preparation, information. Now a different talent is required - the ability to synthesize ideas.
— Boris Spassky
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My earliest influences were things I heard in my household.
— Boz Scaggs
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If you can influence the leaders, either with or without their conscious cooperation, you automatically influence the group which they sway. But men do not…
— Edward Bernays
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Love has no great influences upon the sum of life.
— Samuel Johnson
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People who say that only young people voted on the Internet, those who didn't see Pele play, forget that children are not orphans. There's always…
— Diego Maradona
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I wanted to pay tribute to my musical influences: Buffalo Springfield, Lightfoot, the Beatles, the Hollies.
— Dan Fogelberg
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