Influential Quotes

255 quotes by 239 authors

When a young person, even a gifted one, grows up without proximate living examples of what she may aspire to become--whether lawyer, scientist, artist, or… — Sonia Sotomayor
Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments. — Henry Ward Beecher
Most people have music in the center of their lives. I believe my work sheds light on how music affects us and why it is… — Susan McClary
Warmaking doesn't stop warmaking. If it did, our problems would have stopped millennia ago. — Colman McCarthy
Do a little more each day than you think you possibly can. — Lowell Thomas
Music was very influential on me as a kid. — Steve Earle
I come personally from a broken family, divorced very early in my childhood, a family with its own share of troubles, so I think that… — Bill de Blasio
My greatest contribution to hip-hop was allowing the United States of America to know and understand exactly how far they reach, and how influential they… — Monie Love
Films are very influential, and I especially feel a responsibility to tell stories that have been pushed aside. Being able to shed light on issues… — Q'orianka Kilcher
I had three influential teachers. The first was Uta Hagen. The second two, Bobby Lewis and my late husband, Charles Kakatsakis, were both from the… — June Squibb
An exit is only a success if you set an exit as your primary goal. My primary goal was to build a globally influential tool,… — Ryan Holmes
Complex astronomical instruments like the Antikythera Mechanism and the Nebra Sky Disk were made by Pagans. Our Pagan intellectual heritage includes poets and scientists and… — Brendan Myers
Being influential is not the mark of a great book. — Mortimer Adler
When I grew up in India, telephones were a rarity. In fact, they were so rare that elected members of Parliament had the right to… — Shashi Tharoor
I think that every time you bring a subject into the mainstream landscape of television, it can have a huge impact. Television is such an… — Sherri Saum
Anything I wanted to do and achieve has not been influential in my life, but my failures have. — Imtiaz Ali
About the gnostic writers themselves and the setting in which they lived we know little, although gnostic Christians were influential enough to be denounced at… — Elaine Pagels
Bob Dylan is as influential as any artist that there has been. — Robbie Robertson
We know that we are often judged by the company we keep. We know how influential classmates, friends, and other peer groups can be. If… — Joseph B. Wirthlin
Working with Adrien Brody was like going to Julliard, but instead of four years, I went for four weeks. He was like the Albert Einstein… — Sami Gayle

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