Influence Quotes

AKA: QuotesNSayings.net

Famous Quotes and Sayings

• Authors
• Picture Quotes
• Proverbs
• Professions
• Nationalities
• About
• Contact

Popular Authors

• Paulo Coelho
• Zig Ziglar
• Oprah Winfrey
• Michael Jackson
• Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
• Princess Diana
• Vladimir Putin
• Martin Luther King Jr
• Warren Buffett
• Coco Chanel

• They say your childhood influences your tastes and interests, or your approach if you’re an artist. So what you create, whatever you saw, whatever your childhood was like – it influences how you’re going to end up.

  Brett Ratner

  Topics in Influence

  Tags in Childhood

• I was lucky. I had a lot of really good influences.

  Brad Dourif

  Topics in Influence

  Tags in Good, Lucky

• My earliest influences were things I heard in my household.

  Boz Scaggs

  Topics in Influence

• Tori Amos had a major influence on how I craft words in a song.

  Hal Sparks

  Topics in Influence

  Tags in Rain, Words, Used

• Doonesbury had the requisite and overwhelming influence in 1980, as it did on any college cartoonist who was paying attention, of course.

  Berkeley Breathed

  Topics in Influence

• That’s the trouble with trying to influence an undecided voter. First you have to find one.

  Pat Sajak

  Topics in Influence

• It’s pretty hard to measure influence of written or visual material.

  Ben Shahn

  Topics in Influence

  Tags in Measure

• I’ve been asked a great deal about the influence I’ve had with my work and it’s impossible to say, you know.

  Ben Shahn

  Topics in Influence

• My two biggest influences are Archie comics and Dennis the Menace.

  Gilbert Hernandez

  Topics in Influence

  Tags in Self

• No, generally I think influence is used as a nice word for plagiarism.

  Gilbert Gottfried

  Topics in Influence

  Tags in Self

• Sergio Leone was a big influence on me because of the spaghetti westerns.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Topics in Influence

• I don’t have any influences, any heroes, it’s just me.

  GG Allin

  Topics in Influence

  Tags in Heroes

• The big turning point, really, was the Beatles’ influence on American folk music, and then Roger took it to the next step, and then along came the Lovin’ Spoonful and everybody else.

  Barry McGuire

  Topics in Influence

• Picasso once remarked I do not care who it is that has or does influence me as long as it is not myself.

  Gertrude Stein

  Topics in Influence

  Tags in Picasso

• It is manifestly vital to the success of the anti-slavery cause, that the authority and influence of proslavery, especially of slaveholding, ministers should be destroyed.

  Gerrit Smith

  Topics in Influence, Success

• Nothing changes more constantly than the past; for the past that influences our lives does not consist of what actually happened, but of what men believe happened.

  Gerald W. Johnson

  Topics in Influence, Life

• 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

  Topics in Influence, Power

• There are so many moments and works that influence us in what we do. Movies, music, TV and, most importantly, the profound everydayness of our lives.

  Barbara Kruger

  Topics in Influence

  Tags in Moments

• The stated mission at the time was simply to use the influence of the entertainment industry to do an accurate portrayal of drug and alcohol abuse. We all admit that we’re not trying to censor anybody.

  Gerald McRaney

  Topics in Influence

  Tags in Entertainment, Industry

•  

  My grandfather had a particularly important influence on my life, even though I didn’t visit him often, since he lived about three miles out of town and he died when I was six. He was remarkably curious about the world, and he read lots of books.

   

  Umberto Eco

  Topics in Influence, Life