“Like a lot of people who get into coaching, I was impacted by the people in my life. Certainly my father (John) who coached me in youth league baseball, and my high school coach, Joe Moore, were mentors and major influences.” PeopleSchoolFatherInfluenceYouthMajorsHigh SchoolBaseballCoachesLeagueCoachingMentor Author:Kirk Ferentz
“I was fortunate that when I was first starting out in New Orleans, I had a remarkable high-school teacher. And she was a great, great influence in my life, and I think she gave me the courage and the confidence to go forward into the real world. She instilled in me that my dreams were important and that what I was passionate about was most important.” ThinkingWorldFirstsImportantRealDreamSchoolTeacherInfluenceHigh SchoolStartingPassionateFortunateRemarkableReal WorldNew OrleansStarting OutSchool TeachersGreat InfluenceHigh School Teachers Author:John Cena
“In my family we got up in the mornings around three o'clock and went out to the barns to bring the cows in and milk. In high school I milked about twenty cows every morning and about twenty in the afternoon when I got home. I have wonderful memories from those early days when my parent's influence was so strong.” HomeSchoolThreeStrongParentMemoriesMorningWonderfulInfluenceHigh SchoolMy FamilyTwentiesClockAfternoonMilkCowsEvery MorningBarnsWonderful Memories Author:Billy Graham
“I went to high school right outside Dallas, and (songwriter and performer) Michael Martin Murphey was a senior there when I was a sophomore or junior, really into folk and acoustic music. Larry Gross, who's the host of "Mountain Stage" on public radio, and B.W. Stevenson, also a musician, were there at the same time, too. Michael was a big inspiration -- through him I discovered Woody Guthrie, Dylan, Jimmy Rogers. Then I ran into Jerry Jeff Walker there in Dallas back when he was just a folk singer. Those are my earliest influences.” BigsInspirationSchoolInfluenceStageMountainMusicianHigh SchoolFolksRadioSingersRanPerformersHostSongwritersSeniorGrossDylanJuniorsJimmyRogerBack WhenLarryJerryAcousticsWoodyDallasWalkersSophomorePublic RadioAcoustic Music Author:Ray Wylie Hubbard
“I was a jazz major in high school, in an all-jazz band. No matter what I do, it features my musical influences.” MatterSchoolInfluenceBandMajorsHigh SchoolNo Matter WhatJazzMusicalFeaturesJazz BandMusical Influence Author:Wyclef Jean
“P.I.L. has been a favorite of mine since high school especially there metal box album. The guitarist Keith Levine gets some of the best sounds ever to come out of a guitar. The songs are really free form and experimental and have a heavy dub influence.” Has BeensSchoolFormSongSoundInfluenceMinesHigh SchoolGuitarAlbumsBoxesHeavyMetalsGuitaristKeith Author:Marcel Dzama
“You know, if I look at an auditorium full of high school students and the big man on campus and his girlfriend are busy talking while the lecture's going on, the rest of the room is going to do it because they're powerful sneezers. They have influence. They reach out to a whole bunch of people in a way that makes the idea of being disrespectful spread.” PeopleIfsKnowsMenWayLooksIdeasWholeBigsSchoolRoomsPowerfulTalkingInfluenceStudentsHigh SchoolBusySpreadBunchGirlfriendReach OutLecturesCampusDisrespectfulAuditoriumsHigh School Students Author:Seth Godin
“My greatest influences are actually probably a set of different teachers. And these teachers, most prominently at my high school, but also a few others, helped kind of instill in me, thinking thoughts about how life is meaningful in terms of how we all kind of live in a network of people and how you interact with those people is part of what makes life essentially meaningful and then kind of concepts to think about, how do you add value to other people's lives? How do they add value to yours? And how do you kind of form a community together in the network?” PeopleThinkingKindDifferentSchoolTogetherFormLife IsValuesTermCommunityTeacherInfluenceHigh SchoolConceptsAddMeaningfulAll KindsInstill Author:Reid Hoffman
“I hadn't really thought about going to college. Nobody in my family went away to school. The other piece of that was I didn't see anybody else in my hometown going to college to give me some kind of influence or something like that you might want to think about. I didn't see any of that. Therefore I thought it was never there. What happened was that my high school coach intervened. Had he not intervened to the measure he intervened, I probably wouldn't have gone.” ThinkingGivingKindSchoolInfluenceCollegeHigh SchoolMy FamilyCoachesHometownGoing To College Author:Lenny Moore
“One last important influence I'll mention is Flannery O'Connor. In high school I shoplifted her Complete Stories. Having read "Good Country People" for class, I really just felt a home in her work. I had little guilt about the theft at the time. I sucked in my stomach and shoved the book into my pants. It's very big. I can still feel how it cut into my body in the most exciting way. Clearly, I don't feel guilt-free about this crime anymore - I wouldn't be mentioning here, looking for some absolution if I did.” PeopleImportantBookCountryHomeSchoolCuttingInfluenceCrimeHigh SchoolExcitingGuilt Author:Samantha Hunt