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“Wilderness is two things-fact and feeling. It is a fund of knowledge and a spring of influence. It is the ultimate source of health-terrestrial and human.”

Humans Two Facts Feelings Influence Source Spring Ultimate Two Things Fund Wilderness

Author:Benton MacKaye

“Not only has wilderness been a force in molding our character as a people, but its influence continues, and will, if we are wise enough to preserve it on this continent, be a stabilizing power as well as a spiritual reserve for the future.”

People Ifs Wells Enough Character Spiritual Force Wise Influence Preserves Wilderness Continents Reserves Molding

Author:Sigurd F. Olson

“To influence others to change, you must be able to frame that change in terms of the future, and in a way that has value to all concerned.”

Way Able Values Term Influence Concerned

Author:Bill Crawford

“Let no guilty man escape if it can be avoided. Be specially vigilant-or instruct those engaged in the prosecution of fraud to be-against all who insinuate that they have high influence to protect-or to protect them. No personal consideration should stand in the way of performing a public duty.”

Ifs Men Way Should Influence Duty Protect Guilty Performing Engaged Consideration Fraud Avoided Vigilant Prosecution

Author:Ulysses S. Grant

“I am a feminist. And I'm so glad that Lena Dunham exists, because she is one too, and she's quite vocal about it. Yes, women have more freedom and more influence than ever, but it's hardly equal. It's just not.”

Influence Equal Feminist Glad Vocal

Author:Claire Danes

“I'm aware of the luck in [BABIP], but at the same time, you can't directly influence it. You can just keep mixing your patterns, executing and locating, That's the human element of this game.”

Humans Games Influence Elements Luck Patterns Mixing Executing

Author:Max Scherzer

“In these negotiations we are not a helpless object, although great world powers are involved. We play an active role and try to influence our destiny; we have our own trump cards and we use them.”

World Trying Play Use Roles Destiny Influence Objects Trump Involved Active Cards Helpless Negotiation Our Destiny World Power

Author:Alija Izetbegovic

“In my experience, I have found that creativity demands a vigilant mind, which is weakened by the influence of drugs.”

Mind Found Creativity Influence Drug Demand Vigilant

Author:Ernst Junger

“After people like Lennon and Dylan, I think David Bowie brought a very modernistic intelligence and the necessity for change. I think he was completely positive, certainly through one and a half decades of completely overriding influence, in the best of popular music, and I take my bloody hat off to him!”

People Thinking Half Influence Decades Hats Bloody Dylan Lennon Bowie Popular Music Hats Off

Author:Roger Meddows Taylor

“All natural objects make a kindred impression, when the mind is open to their influence.”

Mind Natural Influence Objects Impression Kindred

Book:Essays and Lectures

Source: Essays and Lectures

“When our priorities are out of order, we lose power. It takes personal revelation every day to help us prioritize and keep at bay the influences of the world that would draw us from what we are to do.”

World Helping Order Loses Influence Draws Priorities Revelations Prioritize Personal Revelation

Author:Julie B. Beck

“I'd like to be more of a bad influence than a role model. I'm getting lots of boys to wear eye-liner again which is good.”

Eye Boys Roles Influence Models Role Models

Author:Brian Molko

“[The movies] make the sort of comment only a novel can make, an allusion to the world in which people live, the psychological and economic motivations, the influences of the period in which they lived.”

People World Motivation Novel Influence Economic Periods Psychological Comment Allusion

Author:Orson Welles

“Mantovani was a great influence on me.”

Influence Great Influence

Author:Brian May

“Social media is the greatest leadership tool ever invented. It gives you the opportunity to amplify your voice, extend your influence, and create a tribe of passionate followers who want to hear from you.”

Want Giving Opportunity Social Voice Influence Media Tools Passionate Social Media Followers Tribes Amplify Greatest Leadership

Author:Michael Hyatt

“Being successful is not determined by the amount of money you make but by the amount of lives you affect and influence for the better.”

Successful Influence Amount Determined Being Successful

Author:Behdad Sami

“Until MTV, television had not been a huge influence on music. To compete with MTV, the country music moguls felt they had to appeal to the same young audience and do it the way MTV did.”

Way Country Young Felt Audience Influence Television Huge Appeals Mtv Moguls

Book:Pride: the Charley Pride story

Source: Pride: the Charley Pride story

“When your team questions your motives and methods, you have lost their trust and you will not be able to influence them.”

Able Lost Team Influence Method Motive

Author:John Fairclough

“When your team questions your competence, your ability to influence is shot.”

Ability Team Influence Shots Competence

Author:John Fairclough

“Societies exist under three forms sufficiently distinguishable. 1. Without government, as among our Indians. 2. Under governments wherein the will of every one has a just influence, as is the case in England in a slight degree, and in our states, in a great one. 3. Under governments of force: as is the case in all other monarchies and in most of the other republics. To have an idea of the curse of existence under these last, they must be seen. It is a government of wolves over sheep.”

Ideas States Government Lasts Form Three Force Existence Cases Influence Degrees England Curse Republic Sheep Monarchy Great Ones

Book:Jefferson: Writings

Source: Jefferson: Writings

“Our certainty that angels right now witness how we are walking through life should mightily influence the decisions we make. God is watching, and His angels are interested spectators too.”

Should Decision Influence Walking Right Now Angel Certainty Witness Spectators Decisions We Make Walking Through Life

Book:Graham 2in1 (Angels/Peace With God)

Source: Graham 2in1 (Angels/Peace With God)

“I use a combination of all my influences on my albums.”

Use Influence Albums Combination

Author:Robin Trower

“Under the sustaining influence of love, the physical body is always at its best. It is probably true that more people are sick from lack of love in their lives than from all other causes put together.”

People Body Together Causes Influence Sick Sustaining Physical Body Lack Of Love

Author:Eric Butterworth

“No matter how frustrated you may feel, there is always a way out. In every situation that arises, we choose to be powerful or powerless. It may not always feel like it, but it is a choice. And there are consequences for these choices in terms of the results we get, and the subsequent increase or decrease in our power and influence. If we choose powerlessness, it is often because we doubt there is any other option.”

Ifs Way Feels May Matter Choices Term Results Powerful Situation Doubt Influence Consequence Increase Arise Frustrated Powerless Decrease Powerlessness There Is Always A Way

Author:Blaine Lee Pardoe

“The ambition of instantaneous photography... was that of preserving the spontaneity of action and avoiding any indication that the presence of the picture taker had a modifying influence on what was going on.”

Action Influence Ambition Photography Avoiding Spontaneity Indication Instantaneous Modifying

Author:Rudolf Arnheim

“The amazing thing about Sweets [Edison] was that he exactly spoke the way that he played! He was really unique, the one and only. He was one of the greatest Blues players that I ever heard and played with. Nobody can play like Sweets man, nobody! Most of us, musicians, frequently quote Sweets' phrases in our solos. Like Lester Young, Sweets had a big influence on us musicians, especially when we play some Blues.”

Men Way Play Bigs Young Player Heard Influence Sweet Musician Unique Phrases Spokes Solo Amazing Things Lester Young

Author:Ray Brown

“In all honesty, I think I just played what I felt was right for me. And I think I would have done the same thing, even if I'd been born later, when Charlie Parker was influencing everybody. The truth is, I never gave it much thought. I just played what I had to play.”

Ifs Thinking Done Play Felt Born Influence Honesty Truth Is Charlie

Author:Benny Carter

“Sarah Palin has managed to use her failed vice presidential run to put herself in a position of power and influence. Joe Biden won the race and he hasn't been able to put himself in a position of power and influence.”

Use Running Able Race Influence Position Vices Presidential Vice President Palin Biden Position Of Power

Author:Craig Ferguson

“Howard's unbelievably nutty, politically incorrect style is probably the single biggest influence on me.”

Influence Style Nutty

Author:Artie Lange

“So much of the world is being brought up on these stories that Hollywood is coming up with and exporting all over. They have so much power and influence, so it's really important that they represent women properly.”

World Important Stories Influence Hollywood Exporting

Author:Brit Marling

“Land surveying has been a positive influence on my life, and I'd encourage anyone who hasn't considered it to give it a chance!”

Giving Has Beens Chance Influence Land Positive Influence Give It A Chance

Author:Mark Mason

“There are so many people who've come before me who deserved to be tired. Who didn't have the opportunities, who didn't have the access, who didn't have the money, who didn't have the influence, who didn't have the voice.”

People Opportunity Voice Influence Tired Access

Author:Oprah Winfrey

“What we were trying very hard to do, just in the way we shot it, was to make it feel as if we're in that environment ourselves, just so we can get a grasp on what it is. A lot of our influence was about getting stuck on a level on any of those video games, where you find yourself caught and you can't get out, and it's maddening. We talked a lot about that.”

Ifs Way Feels Trying Hard Games Levels Environment Influence Shots Caught Stuck Video Finding Yourself

Author:Remi Aubuchon

“Method acting has had a major influence both in writing through the eyes of other people, and seeing through the eyes of other people, trying to address different ideas in a way that would go beyond preaching to the choir.”

People Way Writing Trying Ideas Different Eye Acting Seeing Influence Majors Method Addresses Preaching Choir Through The Eyes Different Ideas Method Acting Preaching To The Choir

Author:Jello Biafra

“Looking back, I didn't realize until years later what a huge influence Red Skelton was in my stage demeanor with the band. I mean, I always liked things that were funny, and later I realized that having a sly sense of humor was a way to get attention and even respect in school.”

Way Years Mean School Realizing Attention Influence Stage Huge Band Red I Realized Sense Of Humor Looking Back Sly Demeanor

Author:Jello Biafra

“The silence of those in positions of influence in the church who know, or have a strong suspicion, that being gay is a nonpathological minority variant in the human condition drives me crazy, far crazier than I am driven by any loud-mouthed purveyor of hateful nonsense.”

Knows Humans Strong Church Silence Crazy Influence Conditions Position Gay Driven Loud Nonsense Minorities Human Condition Suspicion Hateful Being Gay Drive Me Crazy

Author:James Alison

“I have a lot of different influences. Everything from Maroon 5, Gwen Stefani, The Clash, Kanye West - just a lot of different artists.”

Different Artist Influence West Clash Maroon Maroon 5

Author:Brie Larson

“My influences were mostly gospel. So I was playing my twisted Jewish equivalent of gospel music over his twisted equivalent of rock and roll music. And it was a very excellent marriage.”

Influence Rocks Excellent Rock And Roll Twisted Gospel Music Rock And Roll Music

Author:Al Kooper

“I was born to a black childhood of confusion and poverty. The memory of that beginning influences my work today, It is impossible now to photograph a hungry child without remembering the hunger of my old childhood.”

Children Today Remember Black Born Memories Poverty Impossible Influence Childhood Photograph Hunger Hungry Confusion

Author:Gordon Parks

“I don't see myself as being as big of an influence as other people seem to think.”

People Thinking Bigs Seems Influence

Author:Marc Jacobs

“I used to think that the causes of war were predominantly economic. I came to think that they were more psychological. I am now coming to think that they are decisively "personal," arising from the defects and ambitions of those who have the power to influence the currents of nations.”

Thinking War Used Nations Causes Influence Economic Ambition Currents Psychological Defects Causes Of War

Author:B. H. Liddell Hart

“I don't like to see projects that are all black or all white. It's how life is. I do like to make sure that I do a nice black family film; that's like keeping my home base. I do other things, but I like to always come back to a positive family film, because of all the negative influences today.”

Home Today Film Life Is Black White Nice Influence Projects Negative All Black Negative Influence Black Family Home Base

Author:Vivica Fox

“Science, Government, Education, Art, the cultural monolith may be said to exist primarily to exercise a paternal influence, decorously if possible, aggressively if necessary, to enforce certain accepted images upon individuals.”

Ifs May Art Said Government Certain Individual Influence Exercise Accepted Government Education

Author:Eleanor Antin

“We were meant to influence the world, not have the world influence us.”

World Influence

Author:Monica Wright

“As soon as I was born, my mom said I was humming 'When the Saints Go Marching In,' or something like that, you know? It's in the family. And in that neighborhood [Treme, in New Orleans], I think everybody in the neighborhood has some type of musical influence, even if they don't play instruments or anything. It's the way they talk to you, the way they say your name - it's all musical.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Way Said Play Names Born Growing Up Influence Mom Type Instruments Musical Saint My Mom Neighborhood New Orleans Humming Musical Influence

Author:Troy Andrews

“[Louis Armstrong is] the father of us all, regardless of style or how modern we get. His influence is inescapable. Some of the things he was doing in the 20's and 30's, people still haven't dealt with.”

People Stills Father Influence Modern Style Havens Armstrong

Author:Nicholas Payton

“My mother's work has been an enormous influence on me, but not literally. By that I mean, my photographs don't look like hers. That makes it difficult to compare them. What they do share is an emotional intensity.”

Looks Mean Has Beens Mother Difficult Share Influence Emotional Photograph Enormous Compare Intensity

Author:Amy Arbus

“In the end, I believe that the most important influence on my aesthetic has been the photographs I have taken.”

Believe Has Beens Important Ends I Believe Taken Influence Photograph Aesthetic

Author:Roger Ballen

“The lens, that allegedly impartial eye, permits all possible distortions of reality... The importance of photography lies not only in the fact that it is a creation, but above all in the fact that it is one of the most effective means of shaping our ideas and influencing our behavior.”

Mean Ideas Facts Reality Eye Lying Influence Creation Behavior Photography Importance Permit Lenses Distortion

Author:Gisele Freund

“I work in several different groups of pictures which act on and with each other - ranging from several abstracted manners to a form for the surreal. I have been called a preacher - but, in reality, I'm more generally philosophical. I have never made an abstracted photograph without content. An educated background in Zen influences all of my photographs. It has been said that my work resembles, more closely than any photographer, Le Douanier Rousseau - working in a fairly isolated area and feeding mostly on myself - I feel that I am a primitive photographer.”

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