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Influence Quotes
"When I was starting to write, the great influence was T.S. Eliot and after that William Butler Yeats."
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"We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex."
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"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."
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"The belief of Gnan (Knowledge of the Self) is known as samkit (Right belief). Ignorant belief is known as mithyatva (illusion)."
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"Glow What can you do and how can you be in order to bring out the best in others and truly help them shine? Be complimentary; say something nice. Be a great listener and make them feel like you are hanging on every word. Create enthusiasm and anticipation for the person they are getting ready to meet. Act as you have personally invited them to the party and help ensure they have a wonderful time. Give people an experience, not just a conversation."
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"No man voluntarily expresses his opinion without some intent to make a difference, and even if he does, he shouldn't."
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"I have come slowly into possession of such powers as I have. I receive the opinions of my day. I do not conceive them. But I receive them into a vivid mind."
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"The piece that had a large influence on me was Turangalila."
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"I could start with Mandelstam, who was a huge influence on my early writing."
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"The great are inspired. The extraordinary inspire."
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"King's Quest IV was a much bigger hit than I, II, or III. I do feel that King's Quest IV was a pivotal game in bringing in more female players."
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"As a confirmed individualist I certainly do not wish to underrate the influence of the individual, for the masses do not lead the individual; rather, in the individual is vested the capacity to lead the masses."
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"No, generally I think influence is used as a nice word for plagiarism."
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"I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body: they transmit movement to it."
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"We influence singing but never really songwriting."
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"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."
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"The dimension of our influence on earth depends on the dimensions of how big we are before God."
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"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."
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"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."
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"We can influence who we will be tomorrow, for tomorrow can only be built on today."
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"When someone influences you to think negatively, they take Charge of your Life and will lead you to Destruction."
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"Syrian influence has not ended yet. It is going to be a very long path."
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"Scholars and historians have dubbed the last 100 years the American Century, and I think there can be little doubt that the Council on Foreign Relations helped to make it so."
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"A teacher affects eternity he can never tell, where his influence stops."
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"I'd begun reading Crumb shortly before that, and other underground stuff, so that was an influence to some degree. Of course the Marvel and DC comics, they had been my main interests in my teenage years."
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"Influence is like a savings account. The less you use it, the more you've got."
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"I don't think that I'm over his influence but they probably don't look like Picassos; Picasso himself would probably have thrown up looking at my pictures."
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"When Paris sneezes, Europe catches cold."
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"Every writer is a writer of the generation before."
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"As the sun lives on when it sets in the warmth it has given to others, you too will live on in the hearts of those whose lives you have touched."
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"Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something."
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"We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly."
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"You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with."
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"Is the energy of your circle positive enough to bring out the best in you? If it's not, then it's time to wisely reposition yourself."
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