Influential Quotes

255 quotes by 239 authors

In Malaysia, where Western culture was extremely influential, I'd grown up listening to Elvis and the Beatles and watching American movies. People wanted to be… — Feisal Abdul Rauf
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. — Albert Schweitzer
How do I stay so healthy and boyishly handsome? It's simple. I drink the blood of young runaways. — William Shatner
Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster. — William Tecumseh Sherman
The Internet has become a remarkable fount of economic and social innovation largely because it's been an archetypal level playing field, on which even sites… — James Surowiecki
If... many influential people have failed to understand, or have just forgotten, what we were up against in the Cold War and how we overcame… — Margaret Thatcher
I am so honored to be named as one of Time's 100 most influential people. — Yani Tseng
Few developments central to the history of art have been so misrepresented or misunderstood as the brief, brave, glorious, doomed life of the Bauhaus -… — Martin Filler
Armando Iannucci is one of my heroes. As I was growing up, he was probably the most influential comic voice that I had. — John Oliver
It is possible to argue that the really influential book is not that which converts ten millions of casual readers, but rather that which converts… — Aldous Huxley
When King Lear dies in act five, do you know what Shakespeare has written? He has written, 'He dies.' No more. No fanfare, no metaphor,… — Suzanne Weyn
Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day; while failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day. It… — Jim Rohn
The future is not a gift-it is an achievement. — Albert Einstein
It is a terrible thought, to contemplate that an immense number of mediocre thinkers are occupied with really influential matters. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception. — Carl Sagan
According to one influential wing of modern secular society there are few more disreputable fates than to end up being 'like everyone else' for 'everyone… — Alain de Botton
Kelsier smiled. 'It means that you, Vin, are a very special person. You have a power that most high noblemen envy. It is a power… — Brandon Sanderson
In the human heart there is a built-in obsolescence factor. It does not matter how powerful and influential you are, how much education you have,… — K.P. Yohannan
I know what the fear is. The fear is not for what is lost. What is lost is already in the wall. What is lost… — Joan Didion
America had shifted from what influential cultural historian Warren Susman called a culture of character to a culture of personality, and opened up a Pandora's… — Susan Cain

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