Influences Quotes

If you are what you eat, you are what you see and hear.

~ E.a. Bucchianeri

It is better to dwell on the beautiful things in life than the negative.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Evil influence is like a nicotine patch, you cannot help but absorb what sticks to you.

~ E.a. Bucchianeri

Life is too short to surrender as a matter of course to external influences.

~ Steven Redhead

When I started to draw, most of my influences were from other painters and illustrators, so I was drawing landscape at second hand, really. The trees were Rackham trees, or trees that I had seen in paintings rather than from my own observation...and I started to feel this was a real lack in my work. Everything was too generalised, and not based on real experience. Then in 1975, after having worked for some years in London as a book cover illustrator mainly, I came down to Devon and stayed with some friends up on the moor. In the course of this one weekend, wandering around the moor, finding rivers and ancient woods, I realised that everything that I would ever want to draw was actually here. There was so much richness in the texture and forms of these fantastic trees...and I decided in the course of that weekend to come and live here. I looked at a couple of houses, found one, and made an offer on it, all in that one weekend!

~ Alan Lee

What you think of is what you will attract to your life.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The knowledge of God that a person has, influences not only his own life, but also the lives of his children.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Who do you want to surround yourself with? People who can pull you up to their level of greatness? Or people who will happily pull you down to theirs?

~ Dan Pearce

All selling should spring from service

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

Authority confined in you does not make you a leader. It is the authority created by you that makes you influence people with your purpose.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Ballot papers do not define leaders. Leadership is defined by conviction, vision, passion and inspiration.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

For there is no creature whose inward being is so strong that it is not greatly determined by what lies outside it.

~ George Eliot

We're freaks, the two of us, Franny and I. I'm a twenty-five-year-old freak and she's a twenty-one-year-old freak, and both those bastards are responsible. I swear to you, I could murder them both without batting an eyelash. The great teachers. The great emancipators. My God. I can't even sit down to lunch with a man any more and hold up my end of a decent conversation. I either get so bored or so goddamn preachy that if the son of a bitch had any sense, he'd break his chair over my head

~ J.d. Salinger

The sort of people that we become is, in large part, determined by the voices that we choose to listen to. Truly, we do not have a choice of listening versus not listening. We all obey certain voices, and thus the question is not “Will I listen?” but “Which voices will I listen to?” But it is not only a matter of choosing to listen to good voices over bad ones. If only it were as simple as the proverbial whispering angel and devil on our shoulders. It is also a matter of whether we will choose to listen to different voices, voices that don’t sound the same as our own. Will we listen to the voices of different cultures, ethnicities, backgrounds and beliefs? Will we listen to the voices that unsettle us and might make us feel anxious or guilty? If we choose to listen only to voices that echo our own, we will be limited in our growth and stunted in our spirituality. Choosing to tune in to only one or two stations may be comfortable, but it is not transformative. The voices we want to hear are not always the same as the voices we need to hear.

~ Adam Mchugh

The ambiance of every environment in a country is the value system of the given nation. It is that culture that influences how citizens of a nation react, respond and behave among themselves in regards to politics, commerce, family and social life.

~ Sunday Adelaja

I'm generally quite happy until someone tells me I'm not. I don't see how they know I'm not, but suddenly I feel less happy.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich


He knows that if his father had been a different man, or his mother another women, he would have been the same.

 He would have lived all his years the same way. They played no part. Any combination would have produced the same result. The same man.


~ R.a.lucas

The religious superstitions of women perpetuate their bondage more than all other adverse influences.

~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton