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Influence Quotes
"But in simple substances the influence of one monad over another is ideal only."
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"Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world."
52
"If you hang out with chickens, you're going to cluck and if you hang out with eagles, you're going to fly."
52
"It's definitely an influence, I mean how can you not say you are influenced to play rock."
47
"In my opinion, Lenny Bruce was more of an influence on Zappa's satirical lyric's than anyone that I know of."
45
"The great are inspired. The extraordinary inspire."
43
"I'm proud of my mentors. Ray Charles is the strongest influence on me as a singer."
42
"I write for a certain sphere of readers in the United States who on average watch seven and a half hours of multichannel television per day."
42
"The belief of Gnan (Knowledge of the Self) is known as samkit (Right belief). Ignorant belief is known as mithyatva (illusion)."
42
"The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret."
41
"When Paris sneezes, Europe catches cold."
40
"The rich are always advising the poor, but the poor seldom return the compliment."
40
"He could tell her that dogs used to look like cats and vice versa without a lick of proof and it would change the way she regarded the animals."
40
"I consider every drummer that ever played before me an influence, in every way."
39
"Influence is to be measured, not by the extent of surface it covers, but by its kind."
39
"A teacher affects eternity he can never tell, where his influence stops."
38
"And, well of course, Count Basie, and I think all of the black bands of the late thirties and early forties, bands with real players. They had an influence on everybody, not just drummers."
37
"Who knows what would have become of me, if my parents had not had their influence on me."
35
"Influence is a very unpleasant subject and I deal with it in a maybe irresponsible way, which is to really ignore it. It would be a nightmare if we started to really think about it; it would tie our hands, it would tie everyone else's hands."
35
"A guy called Arthur Brown... was a big influence of mine... and also Ian Anderson from Jethro Tull."
34
"No, generally I think influence is used as a nice word for plagiarism."
34
"Share your success stories with others. Don't brag, but don't hide your light. People want (and need) to be inspired and instructed. I know I want to follow and learn from successful people. Isn't that the basis for every business and self-help book? People will also give you good ideas to build on your own wins when you share openly. And when you write out your wins to an audience, your own ideas start to grow within you. Will you try? What's a win you've had lately? Don't be shy about it."
34
"I mean I think that Blondie's influence is a little bit in a way more eclectic than those bands."
33
"There was a writer in the '20s called Christopher Morley, who I remember a little bit of, who had some influence on me, but I couldn't tell you what it was."
33
"I really do believe in the influence of your surroundings."
33
"I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body: they transmit movement to it."
32
"Influence is when you don't talk and yet your words fill the room when you are absent and yet your presence is felt everywhere."
32
"Every self-respecting act of persuasion must find appeal to curiosity, then to vanity, and lastly to kindness or remorse. Isabella looked down and slowly nodded."
32
"I never met your likeness. Jane: you please me, and you master me - you seem to submit, and I like the sense of pliancy you impart; and while I am twining the soft, silken skein round my finger, it sends a thrill up my arm to my heart. I am influenced - conquered; and the influence is sweeter than I can express; and the conquest I undergo has a witchery beyond any triumph _I_ can win."
32
"When someone influences you to think negatively, they take Charge of your Life and will lead you to Destruction."
32
"Sergio Leone was a big influence on me because of the spaghetti westerns."
31
"It would be difficult to exaggerate the degree to which we are influenced by those we influence."
31
"Greatness can be contagious, but first there must be contact."
31
"So you want to be famous? You want to inspire large groups of people? You want to be recognized and appreciated by thousands or even millions? Stop trying to do it by speaking to the masses. Do it by speaking to individuals. If what you have is truly amazing and unique and worth sharing, individuals will share it. It is always about the individual, no matter how big you get. Remember that."
30
"We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex."
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