“I take responsibility for the times I was arrested and the things that I did. Me being 33 now, I look back on those times and I wish that a lot of things I didn't do. I wish I could have back because I see how much I influence people. People wanna follow in my footsteps and I wish that I can now do more positive things, and that back then I'd done more positive things.” PeopleLooksI CanDoneWishResponsibilityInfluenceTaking ResponsibilityArrestedFootstepsPositive ThingsInfluencing People Author:Gucci Mane
“When I might be on a business trip, a lot of people are partying and they may be drunk or under the influence of something that I'm not under the influence of, and that might influence their actions. I'm not even blaming them, but being in the club and not knowing what everybody's motives are, I have to take precautions damn near every week, especially when I go out of town.” PeopleMayMightActionPartyKnowingWeekInfluenceTownsBlameClubsDrunkDamnMotiveNot KnowingPrecautionBusiness Trips Author:Gucci Mane
“Our dreams can teach us, instruct us, confuse us... sometimes I think they look to be considered. And in terms of like, they are an opportunity and I think they most certainly could be utilized to focus, to try and achieve - whether it's looking for someone, or influencing us, or inspiring us.” ThinkingTryingLooksSometimesDreamOpportunityTermTeachFocusInfluenceAchieveOur Dreams Author:Keanu Reeves
“We've come under the influence of television, where in all honesty we can follow a show that could just get cancelled midway through the season and the entire plotline never resolves itself.” ShowsInfluenceHonestyTelevisionSeasonsResolveMidway Author:Christopher Bollen
“Both my mom and my grandma were really big influences on me not only by being strong and teaching me to be strong but also owning their salt as well.” WellsBigsStrongInfluenceTeachingMomMy MomSaltGrandmaMy Grandma Author:Miranda Lambert
“I believe in free love and that's just how I feel. It's just my experience of being with different kinds of men and being born without a preference for a certain type of person. For me, that is my story in finding love in lots of different people, and that's been the second biggest influence in my music.” PeopleMenFeelsBelieveKindPersonsDifferentStoriesCertainI BelieveBornInfluenceTypeFindingsI Believe InDifferent KindsPreferenceDifferent PeoplesFinding LoveFree Love Author:Lana Del Rey
“My brother (Bruno Mars) is as smart as he is because a lot of things he's doing, creativity wise, our Dad used to do. Things my father used to do visually and musically. I see a lot of my father's influence in both of us.” UsedFatherCreativityWiseInfluenceBrotherDadSmartMy BrotherMars Author:Eric Hernandez
“I think the equipment you use has a real, visible influence on the character of your photography. You're going to work differently, and make different kinds of pictures, if you have to set up a view camera on a tripod than if you're Lee Friedlander with handheld 35 mm rangefinder. But fundamentally, vision is not about which camera or how many megapixels you have, it's about what you find important. It's all about ideas.” IfsThinkingKindImportantIdeasDifferentRealCharacterUseViewsVisionInfluencePhotographyCamerasVisibleDifferent KindsEquipmentGoing To WorkTripods Author:Keith Carter
“Information technology has brought people much closer together than ever before, providing a democratizing and mostly stabilizing influence.” PeopleTogetherTechnologyInfluenceInformationProvidingInformation Technology Author:Dan Quayle
“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
“Hollywood was a good influence because I was madly in love with films, and the films had a direct influence on me.” FilmInfluenceDirectHollywoodMadly In LoveGood Influences Book:Conversations with Ray Bradbury Source: Conversations with Ray Bradbury
“There are a lot of wonderful women writers who would be good influences on writers. You've got to spread yourself out and educate yourself with all kinds of stories.” KindStoriesWould BeWonderfulInfluenceSpreadBe GoodAll KindsEducateWonderful WomanGood Influences Book:Conversations with Ray Bradbury Source: Conversations with Ray Bradbury
“The more valuable you become [in your company], the more influence you have, the better communicator you are, you manage your time better, and you recognize people for their contributions. You also become more valuable as a spouse, parent and friend.” PeopleParentCompanyInfluenceValuableManageContributionSpouseCommunicators Author:Jim Rohn
“Everything that truly makes us happy is quite simple: love, sex, and food! Everything else - power, influence, strength - all those things can overpower what's important in life. But as long as you have food and shelter over your head, if the necessities are taken care of, what makes us happy on top of that is very simple.” IfsLongImportantCareSexSimpleTakenInfluenceOver YouShelterWhat's ImportantSimple Love Author:Meryl Streep
“The difficulty in judging what type of behavior works well arises not only because a given course of action does not always produce the outcomes. Similar outcomes can occur for reasons other than the person's actions, which further complicates inferential judgment. Effects that arise independently of one's actions distort the influence of similar effects produced by the actions, but only on some occasions. Given a strong cognitive set to perceive regularities, even chance joint occurrences of events can be easily misjudged as genuine relationships of low contingent probability” WellsPersonsDoeReasonActionCoursesStrongGivenChanceInfluenceEffectsEventsProduceJudgingTypeBehaviorJudgmentLowsDifficultyGenuineAriseOccasionsPerceiveOutcomesProbabilityJointsCognitiveRegularitySelf Efficacy Author:Albert Bandura
“The presence of many interacting influences, including the attainments of others, create further leeway in how one's performances and outcomes are cognitively appraised” InfluencePerformancesIncludingOutcomesAttainmentInteractingSelf Efficacy Author:Albert Bandura
“[Attributional] factors serve as conveyors of efficacy information that influence performance largely through their intervening effects on self-percepts of efficacy” SelfInfluenceEffectsInformationPerformancesFactorsEfficacySelf EfficacyIntervening Author:Albert Bandura
“Perceived self-efficacy influences the types of causal attributions people make for their performances” PeopleSelfInfluenceTypePerformancesEfficacySelf EfficacyAttributionPerceived Self Author:Albert Bandura
“I do feel that movies and music do have the power to slightly influence a person's decision. I believe that if violence is not in a person, then the film is not going to encourage them.” PeopleIfsFeelsBelievePersonsFilmI BelieveDecisionViolenceInfluenceMovies And Music Author:Morris Chestnut
“Confronting the US made him [Hugo Chavez] a target for demonization. Partisan and/or lazy journalism exaggerated his faults, ignored his virtues, and downplayed the influence of strident and on occasion anti-democratic opponents. The flip side is his anti-imperialist posturing so dazzled his cheerleaders they overlooked his flaws, flaws which worsened over time, and they created their own caricature.” MadeSidesVirtueInfluenceDemocraticFaultsJournalismOccasionsOpponentsLazyTargetFlawsIgnoredFlipExaggeratedPartisansOverlookedConfrontingCaricaturesCheerleaderChavez Author:Rory Carroll
“I don't believe in the clash of cultures. The culture is one. The culture is a ring off the same chain. Picasso was very much influenced by the African arts, and he influenced a whole other generation of artists. So everything influences everything.” BelieveArtWholeArtistCultureGenerationsInfluenceDon't BelieveRingsChainsClash Author:Marjane Satrapi
“My greatest influence has been the blues. And that's a literary influence, because I think the blues is the best literature that we as black Americans have.” ThinkingHas BeensLiteratureBlackInfluenceBest Literature Author:August Wilson
“I identify with my culture, but I am happy to be living on a tolerant, intellectual island where I can deal with Dostoyevsky and Sartre, both great influences for me.” I CanCultureDealsInfluenceIntellectualIslandsLiving OnDostoyevskyGreat Influence Author:Orhan Pamuk
“As well as Japanese animation, technology has a huge influence on Japanese society, and also Japanese novels. It's because before, people tended to think that ideology or religion were the things that actually changed people, but it's been proven that that's not the case. Technology has been proven to be the thing that's actually changing people. So in that sense, it's become a theme in Japanese culture.” PeopleThinkingWellsHas BeensCultureCasesTechnologyNovelInfluenceChangedHugeIdeologyThemeProvenAnimationJapanese CultureJapanese Animation Author:Mamoru Oshii
“When I'm gonna sing for people I try to meditate upon his majesty and meditate on what is right and then transmit it to the nation. That is how Rastafari really influence.” PeopleTryingNationsInfluenceMajestyTransmit Author:Sizzla
“I'm interested in the history of ideas and how these ideas take on flesh and influence culture, and the church.” IdeasCultureChurchInfluenceFlesh Author:Kevin Vanhoozer
“My biggest poetic influences are probably 20th-century British and Irish poets. So I suppose I'm always listening for the music I associate with that poetry, the telling images, the brevity. I want to hear it in my own work as well as in the poetry I read. However, I think I'm generally more forgiving of other poets than myself.” ThinkingWantWellsMy OwnInfluenceCenturyPoetListeningForgivingBritishPoeticAssociates20th CenturyBrevity Author:David Starkey
“Shook is the musical universe I created. I come from a classical and jazz background and my father is a jazz pianist, so my world bears largely the marks of this influence. As a sort of gateway, I started composing my own music on the computer at the age of 13. Before Shook, I had not yet discovered the kind of music I wanted to dedicate myself to, so I did a little of everything.” WorldKindLittlesAgeWantedUniverseFatherMy OwnInfluenceBearsComputerMarkJazzMusicalBackgroundsComposingPianistGateways Author:Shook
“As trans advocacy has institutionalized and developed, the context of the undemocratic nature of US non-profits and the ways that white, wealthy individuals can intensely influence the directions of advocacy have increasingly come to the surface for trans activists.” WayIndividualWhiteInfluenceProfitSurfaceWealthyActivistTransAdvocacyNon Profit Author:Dean Spade
“[Akiro] Kurosawa, no doubt, was a big influence. Movies sometimes more than directors have influenced me: The Grapes of Wrath, by John Ford, was an extraordinary discovery. Sergei Eisenstein, of course. Later on, [Ingmar] Bergman.” SometimesBigsCoursesDoubtInfluenceDirectorsDiscoveryExtraordinaryNo DoubtWrathGrapesBergmanKurosawa Author:Costa-Gavras
“The American influence is not so aggressive anymore. The American big business influence in Latin America is not as strong, so people can vote and they can have a different life than before. They can have more liberal, more interesting, and more democratic governments.” PeopleDifferentBigsGovernmentAmericaStrongInterestingInfluenceVoteDemocraticLatinAggressiveLatin AmericaBig BusinessDifferent LifeDemocratic Government Author:Costa-Gavras
“I can't wait to be a mom and a wife, and explore that phase of life. And also see how it affects and influences my song writing and creativity.” WritingI CanSongWaitingCreativityWifeInfluenceMomPhasesPhases Of Life Author:Tristan Prettyman
“Your inspiration is better if it comes from many different sources and your sensibilities will transform all those influences and inspiration into your own visual world. It's like reading the book instead of watching the movie.” IfsWorldBookDifferentInspirationReadingInfluenceSourceVisualsSensibility Author:Peter Lindbergh
“I have a deep attachment to the natural world. It's a major influence on my writing, and as I look out over the wonderful snow-covered Santa Fe hills, I'm grateful for every day that I live here.” WorldWritingLooksNaturalWonderfulInfluenceMajorsGratefulSnowHillsAttachmentCoveredSantaNatural WorldSanta Fe Author:Pat Mora
“My earliest influences would definitely be my father, just seeing him play in different bands and going to his shows and going to the rehearsals. You know what I'm saying, it was the typical story of a son looking up to his dad. So the years that my father was around, my father was my biggest influence.” KnowsYearsDifferentPlayStoriesShowsFatherSeeingInfluenceSonDadBandTypicalRehearsal Author:Jon Connor
“What they don't realize is that I'm not in the business to make clothes. I'm not in the business to make more money for myself, for Christ's sake. This is the reason Patagonia exists - to put into action the recommendations I read about in books to avoid environmental collapse. That's the reason I'm in business - to try to clean up our own act, and try to influence other companies to do the right thing, and try to influence our customers to do the right thing. So we're not going to change.” TryingBookReasonActionChristRealizingBusinessCompanyInfluenceClothesCleanEnvironmentalSakeCustomersRight ThingCollapseMore MoneyRecommendationsPatagonia Author:Yvon Chouinard
“Yes, I am optimistic about the environment. If you assume business is exerting the most negative influence on the environment and also has the possibility to impact it positively, there are a bunch of forces that are impacting business that are fundamentally different from the situation 3 or 4 years ago.” IfsYearsDifferentForceBusinessSituationEnvironmentInfluencePossibilityNegativeYears AgoImpactAssumingBunchOptimisticPositivelyNegative Influence Author:Jeffrey Hollender
“Sometimes the things I learn making paintings or drawings - composition, colour, expressionism, texture - can directly influence the making of a film. Sometimes it's great that they are different, and simply taking a break from one medium to spend time with another, recharges the batteries and I feel refreshed.” FeelsDifferentSometimesFilmBreakInfluencePaintingDrawingMediumsColourCompositionEnd TimesSpend TimeTextureBatteriesExpressionismTaking A Break Author:Dave McKean
“The biggest influence in my life has been by husband, who is also my partner in the business. We started our companies together, and he's always been there encouraging me to take on new challenges in my life. And when I do take them on, he's right beside me supporting and helping me through all the difficult time.” Has BeensHelpingTogetherDifficultChallengesCompanyInfluenceHusbandPartnersDifficult TimesNew Challenges Author:Anousheh Ansari
“As an artist I write about the world I want to live in. And as a musician and someone who is in the public eye, I think you have this responsibility to influence people. So I try influence people to live from their heart and make conscious decisions , and I try just inspire people to make positive change. That's purely the reason I do it. I want to see the world get better, you know?” PeopleThinkingKnowsWorldWantWritingTryingHeartReasonEyeArtistDecisionResponsibilityInfluenceInspireMusicianConsciousGet BetterPublic EyePositive ChangeInfluencing People Author:Brett Dennen
“Creativity comes from the part of the brain that is veritable soup of experiences, memories and influences. We really don't like to start questioning exactly where it comes from, in case it stops coming.” MemoriesBrainCreativityCasesInfluenceQuestioningSoup Author:Rhianna Pratchett
“Some liberation theologians maintain that they are not influenced by Marxist philosophy at all. In this case it is necessary to discern whether they say this for tactical reasons, so as not to be compromised politically or whether they are really convinced that Marxism doesn't influence them in any way. I personally think that it is not possible to evade the influence of Marxism, as we cannot commit ourselves to the revolutionary struggle without drawing support from the conclusions of scientific socialism.” ThinkingWayReasonPhilosophyCasesSupportStruggleInfluenceConvincedDrawingSocialismCommitConclusionLiberationRevolutionaryTheologianMarxismMarxistTactical Author:Ernesto Cardenal
“The revolution in Nicaragua was the first of its kind to be accomplished with the mass support of Christians, a fact that cannot fail to influence the further development of revolutionary movements in the whole of Latin America, whose inhabitants are predominantly Christian.” FirstsKindWholeFactsChristianAmericaSupportFailingInfluenceMovementRevolutionDevelopmentMassRevolutionaryAccomplishedLatinLatin AmericaNicaragua Author:Ernesto Cardenal
“There are major influences on us that people are not aware of. There are big lies that nobody's willing to discuss.” PeopleBigsLyingInfluenceWillingMajors Author:Jack Nicholson
“God gave me the gift of faith. I don't mean that in any miraculous sense, I mean through the parents who educated me, through the brothers and sisters I grew up with, the schools I went to, there was this influence upon me which was the faith, in the concrete. I accepted it, I questioned it, I grew up with it, and in the end, as a mature adult, I continue to accept it.” MeanEndsSchoolParentAcceptingInfluenceBrotherGrewGrew UpAdultsAcceptedEducatedMatureConcreteBrothers And SistersMiraculous Author:George Coyne
“I love stories about teachers. For some reason I can't get enough of those kind of stories. If I turn a movie on about a teacher, I love it. I love that idea of an adult influence on kids.” IfsKindI CanIdeasReasonEnoughStoriesKidsTurnsTeacherInfluenceAdultsLove Story Author:Jim Carrey
“People under the influence of cults is similar to that we observe in addicts. Typical behaviour for both includes draining bank accounts, neglecting children, destroying relations with family and losing interest in anything except the drug or cult.” PeopleChildrenInterestInfluenceDrugLosingAccountsRelationNeglectDestroyingBehaviourTypicalCultAddictBank AccountsDrainingLosing Interest Author:Keith Henson
“Three directors whose work directly influences mine are Paul Thomas Anderson, Darren Aronofsky and Susanne Bier (her Danish films). You'll notice that they all don't make feel good movies, same as me, and their films are always visually simple but beautiful (and I hope mine are!).” FeelsBeautifulFilmThreeSimpleInfluenceMinesDirectorsFeel GoodGood MovieDanishDarren Author:Chika Anadu
“If a German company takes over 51 percent of an Indian one, it is given far-reaching controlling rights. But if an Indian company owns the majority of a German company, it is granted only very limited influence. That is unfair.” IfsGivenCompanyRightsInfluencePercentMajorityGrantedIndianReachingUnfair Author:Tulsi Tanti
“In reality, good and evil do not exist, because Divine Providence created nothing that is bad and disharmonious; this is only a human concept. From the hermetic point of view, one type of being has to bring forth positive influences, whereas another type has to bring forth negative influences. In an astral respect these beings are the tools of the effects on our physical world. They are also the cause of all effects in the astral body of every human being, whether they are initiated or not.” WorldHumansBodyRealityEvilCausesHuman BeingsViewsMagicInfluenceEffectsDivineTypeConceptsNegativeToolsPoint Of ViewGood And EvilMysticismProvidenceDivine ProvidenceNegative InfluencePositive Influence Author:Franz Bardon