Influence Quotes

The traditional notion of an architect having a vision of a building and then drawing it either on paper or on a computer and then constructing it isn't really how architecture works, and in reality, the computer has a lot of influence on design.

~ Michael Hansmeyer

The United States form a young republic, a confederacy which ought ever to be cemented by a union of interests and affection, under the influence of those principles which obtained their independence.

~ Mercy Otis Warren

The unsuccessful person is burdened by learning, and prefers to walk down familiar paths. Their distaste for learning stunts their growth and limits their influence.

~ John C. Maxwell

I think I started learning lessons about being a good person long before I ever knew what basketball was. And that starts in the home, it starts with the parental influence.

~ Julius Erving

I think there's so much negative influence on children in school settings. It becomes learning by rote to pass a test. It's not contextualized.

~ Esperanza Spalding

When learning was monopolized by the monks in the Middle Ages, people specialized only in warfare and statecraft. And even these were not altogether free from the scholastic influence.

~ Ameen Rihani

Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it.

~ Simone Weil

Musicians like James Blake were a big influence on me. How he uses his vocals is amazing. And then Yeasayer and Animal Collective, who aren't pop bands exactly, but they do something that is so catchy and undeniable and so much fun.

~ Lorde

My earliest influence was Quincy Jones. I thought 'The Wiz' soundtrack was the most amazing thing I'd ever heard. It was my first record and you had Michael Jackson, Ted Ross, Nipsey Russell and Diana Ross on it. I even took it to show and tell in third grade!

~ Jill Scott

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

~ Mark Twain

There is incredible power in the arts to inspire and influence.

~ Julie Taymor

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.

~ Booker T. Washington

For an artist, a good place to be is you have some kind of influence and power to get things done, but in your essence you remain a nomad or a soldier facing a difficulty to be overcome.

~ Cai Guo-Qiang

For when we talk about the spreading power and influence of globalization, aren't we really referring to the spreading economic and military might of the US?

~ Fredric Jameson

Politics means striving to share power or striving to influence the distribution of power, either among states or among groups within a state.

~ Max Weber

I really learned the power of the tube on Sesame Street and how it can influence a very young mind.

~ Ruth Buzzi

Whoever wants peace among nations must seek to limit the state and its influence most strictly.

~ Ludwig Von Mises

Of all presidential perks, the pardon power has a special significance. It is just the kind of authority that would attract the special attention of someone obsessed with himself and his own ability to influence events.

~ Barbara Olson

Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light and a power.

~ Henry George

As our language wanes and dies, the golden legends of the far-off centuries fade and pass away. No one sees their influence upon culture; no one sees their educational power.

~ Douglas Hyde

I have been trying to point out that in our lives chance may have an astonishing influence and, if I may offer advice to the young laboratory worker, it would be this - never to neglect an extraordinary appearance or happening.

~ Alexander Fleming

Things happen to us in unpredictable ways, but the effect that that has on the kind of people who we become actually is not only open to chance - we can influence it in pretty profound ways.

~ Clayton M. Christensen

Certainly my parents were a huge influence. They always expected the most out of all of us. And expected us to do our very best. I'm thankful to them for allowing me to do what I wanted to do.

~ Laurel Clark

As we lay hold upon the truth of God, its influence must affect us. It must elevate us. It must remove from us every imperfection.

~ Ellen G. White

That the state of knowledge in any country will exert a directive influence on the general system of instruction adopted in it, is a principle too obvious to require investigation.

~ Charles Babbage

You can't get along without a knowledge of the principles and rules governing the influence of one color upon another. A mechanic might as well try to get along without tools.

~ Winslow Homer

At the outset, I want to say that the suggestion that the struggle in South Africa is under the influence of foreigners or communists is wholly incorrect. I have done whatever I did because of my experience in South Africa and my own proudly felt African background, and not because of what any outsider might have said.

~ Nelson Mandela

The things that concern us during the day are going to influence what we experience during the night.

~ Henry Reed

Discipline strengthens the mind so that it becomes impervious to the corroding influence of fear.

~ Bernard Law Montgomery

The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.

~ Ken Blanchard

Alliances and international organizations should be understood as opportunities for leadership and a means to expand our influence, not as constraints on our power.

~ Chuck Hagel

The choices you make each day in your diet and lifestyle have a direct influence on how your genetic predisposition is expressed - for better and for worse. You're only as old as your genes, but how your genes are expressed may be modified by exercise, diet and lifestyle choices much more than had previously been believed - and more quickly.

~ Dean Ornish

As a coach you can influence the diet of your players. You can point out what is wrong.

~ Arsene Wenger

Campaign finance and ethics reform only works if it curtails all special interest groups equally and does not carve out any exceptions to benefit one party or another. 'Pay to play' reform was passed to limit the influence of big spending contractors over the public officials from whom they are trying to obtain work.

~ Thomas Kean

The special sphere of finance within economics is the study of allocation and deployment of economic resources, both spatially and across time, in an uncertain environment. To capture the influence and interaction of time and uncertainty effectively requires sophisticated mathematical and computational tools.

~ Robert C. Merton

As dismayed as Americans are with the influence of the special interests that finance election campaigns, they've been reluctant to embrace the alternative: taxpayer-financed elections.

~ John Harwood

Kennedy lied and lied about his health while he was alive, even using his father's influence to get into the Navy without ever taking a medical examination.

~ Richard Reeves

A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes.

~ Joseph Addison

The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.

~ Deepak Chopra