“I think the biggest influence for me is when I hear a great piece of music, whatever the style, I'm kind of inspired by that greatness and I'm inspired to try and obtain something that comes close to that greatness.” ThinkingTryingKindPiecesInfluenceStyleGreatnessInspired Author:Paul Weller
“One fascinating development in recent years is how large companies like Wal-Mart or the major apparel brands are dramatically influencing behavior throughout their supply chains by requiring CSR compliance as a condition of being a supplier.” InfluenceBehavior Author:Chip Pitts
“You grow up inside these neighborhoods and these communities, and you have friends, friends that you love, friends that you grew up with since elementary. And you have their trust, and you have their loyalty. So it brings influence. So no matter how much of a leader I thought I was, I was always under the influence, period.” MatterGrowsCommunityLeaderGrowing UpInfluenceGrewPeriodsGrew UpLoyaltyNeighborhood Author:Kendrick Lamar
“How am I influencing so many people on this stage rather than influencing the ones that I have back home?” PeopleHomeInfluenceStageBack Home Author:Kendrick Lamar
“I think these nine months of pregnancy are a gift nature gives you to get you ready to be a mother. You couldn't be a mother without thinking about it. You want to be ready. Of course that influences you, but in a way I can't really explain.” ThinkingWayWantGivingI CanMotherCoursesInfluenceReadyMonthsNinePregnancyNine Months Author:Juana Molina
“Legacy doesn't mean a lot because once you have left, even if you are one of the biggest individual shareholders it only means [a small amount of influence]. But it's something I'm very pleased about.” IfsMeanIndividualLeftInfluenceAmountLegacyShareholdersSmall Amounts Author:Maurice Levy
“Both of us have forged our careers in London, but a lot of my comedy influences come from my family and my childhood.” CareersComedyInfluenceChildhoodMy FamilyLondonForged Author:Alice Lowe
“Cormac McCarthy is my favorite author in the world. I love him so much. There's one book that informs me more than The Road - it's called Suttree. That book is a huge influence on me. I'm not smart enough to emulate him, but he inspires me. He never infiltrates my writing directly. He writes incredibly intelligently about people that are marginalized.” PeopleWorldWritingBookEnoughInfluenceInspireHugeSmartMy FavoriteEmulateI Love HimMarginalized Author:Matt de la Pena
“Sometimes we make assumptions about influence when similarities between two writers' work are so strong, but they're still just assumptions. Some things are sort of zeitgeist-y. There's a collective consciousness and we're all drawing from it.” StillsTwoSometimesStrongConsciousnessInfluenceDrawingAssumptionCollectivesSimilarityZeitgeistCollective Consciousness Author:Ron Currie Jr.
“There's this pet phrase about writing that is bandied around particularly in workshops about "finding your own voice as a poet", which I suppose means that you come out from under the direct influence of other poets and have perhaps found a way to combine those influences so that it appears to be your own voice.” WayWritingMeanFoundVoiceInfluencePoetFindingsDirectPhrasesPetWorkshops Author:Billy Collins
“Everyone here has the sense that right now is one of those moments when we are influencing the future.” InspirationalMomentsInfluenceRight Now Author:Steve Jobs
“I was not going to surrender to the status quo and corporate insistence that ordinary people have no power and influence.” PeopleInfluenceOrdinarySurrenderCorporateStatus QuoOrdinary PeopleInsistence Author:Rebecca Solnit
“I've ended up as a filmmaker who really loves the movie part of movies. That time in my life was a big influence on the kind of movies that I ended up making. I always think I'm going to make a movie that's gritty and real, but then I make a movie that's like an opera. I fight it at first and then that's just the way it is.” ThinkingWayFirstsKindRealBigsFightingInfluenceFilmmakerOpera Author:Zack Snyder
“These technologies can make life easier, can let us touch people we might not otherwise. You may have a child with a birth defect and be able to get in touch with other parents and support groups, get medical information, the latest experimental drugs. These things can profoundly influence life. I'm not downplaying that.” PeopleMayChildrenMightAbleParentTechnologySupportGroupsInfluenceInformationBirthEasierDrugMedicalDefectsSupport GroupsBirth Defects Author:Steve Jobs
“I think the martial arts tradition has a big influence on our generation - we all read these novels when we were very young.” ThinkingArtBigsYoungNovelGenerationsInfluenceTraditionMartial ArtsOur Generation Author:Wong Kar-wai
“Democracy means the power of the people and the possibility of influencing the governing parties. Russia had had enough experience with a one-party-system - we will not go back there.” PeopleMeanEnoughPartyDemocracyInfluencePossibilityRussiaGoverningHad Enough Author:Vladimir Putin
“I was trained to look at colour, edges, to see negative space. I honestly think my greatest influence as a writer is from Cubism - the idea of a multi-faceted, multi-perspective way of looking at things.” ThinkingWayLooksIdeasSpaceInfluencePerspectiveNegativeEdgesHonestlyColourCubismNegative Space Author:Rebecca Miller
“Mothers have a huge influence on how their daughters view themselves and how they treat their bodies.” BodyMotherViewsInfluenceHugeDaughterTreats Author:Coco Rocha
“I love those adult writers with the pranking ethos, [Don] DeLillo and [Donald] Barthelme and David Foster Wallace. I don't see any reason not to bring those kinds of influences to bear on books for children.” KindChildrenBookReasonInfluenceBearsAdultsEthosChildren Book Author:Mac Barnett
“Penises are literally all around me all the time, and have a lot of influence on the world, on my world.” WorldInfluence Author:Rachel Zucker
“I always read the Latin American writers. I love so many of them: Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez, José Donoso, Alejo Carpentier, Jorge Luis Borges, Clarice Lispector. I also love a lot of American experimental writers and surrealist European writers. But perhaps The Persian Book of Kings was the greatest influence - I encourage people to look at it. There is such a wealth of incredible stories.” PeopleLooksBookStoriesWealthInfluenceKingsIncrediblesLatinLatin AmericaPersianGabrielAmerican WriterBorgesLatin AmericanSurrealist Author:Porochista Khakpour
“Doesn't every band sort of appropriate their influences into what they do? I guess that would be my defence: if you're making something, you kinda can't help being a conduit for other things.” IfsHelpingWould BeInfluenceBandAppropriateDefence Author:Panda Bear
“I recognise my responsibility, and it's funny when I read people who say they never asked to be a role model, and I understand that, but as soon as you have influence over people, you have a responsibility with what you do with that influence.” PeopleResponsibilityRolesInfluenceModelsRole ModelsRecognise Author:Brooke Fraser
“I've always recognised that I have influence, whether I like it or not, and that I can use it to do something good.” I CanUseInfluence Author:Brooke Fraser
“I guess my biggest influence was actually my Grandfather. He used to play old records on vinyl, and would play old jazz and soul music like Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday and The Rat Pack and swing music.” SoulPlayUsedRecordsInfluenceJazzHolidaySwingsGrandfatherPacksRatsMy GrandfatherVinylMusic SoulOld RecordsRat Pack Author:Ella Henderson
“I definitely love music that's coming out now, there's some really exciting fresh artists coming through which is really cool. I guess it's from old and new, where my influences are based.” ArtistInfluenceExcitingComing OutReally CoolMusic LoveOld And New Author:Ella Henderson
“I can't imagine turning into one of those codgers who no longer reads fiction. I'm regularly stirred by it and suffer no anxiety of influence. Influence me! That was my credo then, as I was developing and learning, and remains so now, as I'm developing and learning.” I CanSufferingFictionImagineInfluenceAnxietyRemainsDevelopingCredo Author:Adam Ross
“I like people like Ani DiFranco, a band called Elbow, of course John Lennon, George Harrison, Barry White. I have a lot of different influences and hopefully they all come together and make some sense.” PeopleDifferentTogetherCoursesWhiteInfluenceBandHopefullyElbowsLennon Author:Billy Boyd
“When I go and write with other artists - a lot of the time it's with them - it's like a therapy session almost. I ask them what they're listening to and what they're going through and what their influences are and I try to get inside of their head and step into their shoes for a second.” WritingTryingArtistAsksStepsInfluenceListeningShoesTherapySession Author:Bonnie McKee
“When we first began and I was 14, my influences were the stuff that was in my parent's record collection like Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin.” FirstsStuffParentRecordsInfluenceCollectionsPurpleZeppelinsDeep Purple Author:Daniel Johns
“Apocalyptic expectations ran riot in 1917, and had a major influence on Allied policies towards Palestine and the Jewish people. The propaganda of all nations was amazingly religious and apocalyptic - ghosts and visions, crucifixions and sacrifice, crusaders and holy warriors.” PeopleNationsReligiousVisionSacrificeInfluencePolicyHolyMajorsExpectationsGhostWarriorPropagandaRanPalestineRiotApocalypticCrucifixion Author:Philip Jenkins
“ThereÂ’s a clear and strong connection between fertility reduction and womenÂ’s literacy and empowerment, including womenÂ’s gainful employment. If you look at the more than 300 districts of India, the strongest influences in explaining fertility variations are womenÂ’s literacy and gainful economic employment.” IfsLooksStrongClearInfluenceEconomicEmpowermentConnectionsIndiaIncludingEmploymentStrongestLiteracyExplainingVariationReductionFertilityStrong Connection Author:Amartya Sen
“My main influence are the other members of the Royal Art Lodge, we've drawn together enough that we can't help but influence each other.” ArtEnoughHelpingTogetherInfluenceMembersRoyalLodgesDrawn Together Author:Marcel Dzama
“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
“My main influences are pop and folk music - Bob Lind, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, the Motown collection, The Zombies, Elliott Smith, and a ton of 70's AM radio hits. I love powerpop too.” YoungInfluenceFolksRadioPopsCollectionsBobZombieDylanPower Of LoveFolk MusicMotown Author:Greta Salpeter
“From a literary standpoint, I've been loving Raymond Carver's short stories, William Carlos Williams' poems, Richard Siken's 'Crush', John Fante, and Jim Harrison's book of ghazals. I love film and photography too, so many of my songs are very image rich from those influences.” BookStoriesFilmSongRichInfluencePhotographyCrushShort StoryStandpointLove FilmsCarver Author:Greta Salpeter
“For me personally, Blink-182 has been a big influence. Just seeing them way back in the day play little shows and start from a garage band to where they are now, makes me believe anything is possible if you truly want it and commit your life to it.” IfsWayWantBelieveLittlesHas BeensPlayShowsBigsSeeingInfluenceBandCommitGarageBlinkAnything Is PossibleBack In The DayBlink 182 Author:Beau Bokan
“Few knew in 2000 that Bush was going to end up with neoconservatives all over the place. And once 9/11 happened, I think it's fair to say that eight or nine neocons have had an enormous influence. The whole solution to every problem was to go after Iraq. This had been a neoconservative mantra for ten years. There was no secret about it.” ThinkingYearsEndsWholeProblemSecretHappenedInfluenceTenSolutionsFairsIraqEightNineEnormousMantras Author:Seymour Hersh
“I have removed a lot of negative influence in my life and try to surround myself with positive people. I have a much more simple life than the old days.” PeopleTryingSimpleInfluenceNegativeSurroundSimple LifeOld DaysPositive PeopleNegative Influence Author:Matt Sorum
“Kenneth Rexroth took me under his wing for a brief period. I was fifteen years old, and I was smoking a lot of heroin and trying to be cool, man, and I really loved poetry. And Kenneth convinced me that destroying myself was not really the best possible solution, and that I needed to look at the world's literature, and not just my own life, in order to be hip, if you will. So he had a huge influence on what became of me thereafter.” IfsMenWorldTryingYearsLooksOrderLiteratureMy OwnInfluenceHugeNeededPeriodsSolutionsWingsConvincedHipsSmokingDestroyingFifteenMy Own LifeHeroinBeing CoolFifteen YearsKennethFifteen Years Old Author:Sam Hamill
“I'll say that this is probably the best time for poetry since the T'ang dynasty. All the rest of the world is going to school on American poetry in the twentieth century, from Ezra Pound to W. S. Merwin, and for very good reason. We have soaked up influence in the last century like a sponge. It's cross-pollination, first law of biology, that the more variety you have the more health you have.” WorldFirstsReasonSchoolLastsLawInfluenceCenturyCrossesVery GoodVarietyPoundsBiologyTwentieth CenturyBest TimesSpongesDynastyAmerican PoetryPollination Author:Sam Hamill
“The idea of "making art for art's sake" makes no sense for me. Each area of my life, all the roles I play, influences the others.” ArtIdeasPlayRolesInfluenceAreasSake Author:Ben Sollee
“What you eat, how much you exercise, what example you set for those you influence are all matters of choice. Consistently making that best choice will add up to living your best life. Your health is the key to that.” MatterChoicesInfluenceExampleKeysExerciseAddConsistently Author:Adam Rodriguez
“'m the second oldest of eight kids. I'd have to say, what inspires me is making sure my siblings have a good role model to look up to. Nowadays, influencers do anything to keep up with each other for attention, and it's not always something today's youth should mimic. I understand that with great influence comes great responsibility.” ShouldLooksKidsTodayAttentionResponsibilityRolesInfluenceYouthInspireModelsEightLook UpRole ModelsSiblingMy SiblingsGreat ResponsibilityGood Role ModelsGreat InfluenceToday's Youth Author:Melanie Iglesias
“I grew up with rock and pop music from the 70s and 80s. I had to play guitar in school - it was a music college and we had to take instrument classes there - so I think guitar playing and guitar sounds have always been an influence.” ThinkingPlaySchoolSoundClassInfluenceRocksCollegeGrewGrew UpInstrumentsGuitarPops80sPop MusicGuitar PlayingGuitar Sound Author:Christian Fennesz
“I think with The Magicians, the Harry Potter and Narnia influences are obviously there.” ThinkingInfluenceHarry PotterMagicianPottersNarnia Author:Hale Appleman
“I think for Lev [Grossman], C. S. Lewis was a huge inspiration from his childhood. I know that Brideshead Revisited is a book that he's incredibly found of and he took certain structural influences from that book that he brought into The Magicians.” ThinkingKnowsBookInspirationCertainFoundInfluenceChildhoodHugeMagicianBrideshead Revisited Author:Hale Appleman
“We have reached a stage where governments and political processes have been hijacked by the corporate world. Corporations can within five hours influence the vote in the U.S. Congress. They can influence the entire voting patterns of the Indian Parliament. Ordinary people who put governments in power might want to go in a different direction. I call this the phenomenon of the inverted state, where the state is no longer accountable to the people. The state only serves the interests of corporations.” PeopleWorldWantHas BeensDifferentStatesGovernmentMightPoliticalProcessInterestHoursFiveInfluenceStageOrdinaryVoteCongressPatternsIndianCorporateCorporationsVotingPhenomenonParliamentOrdinary PeopleDifferent DirectionsCorporate WorldInverted Author:Vandana Shiva
“I want to see a more progressive Democratic ticket. I'm not happy with the Democratic Leadership Council's dominance of the party. And although I'm unlikely to be the person, I want Wisconsin's progressivism to influence the ticket. And we'll do better as a party if we do. We'll have more energy. We'll have a broader tent.” IfsWantPersonsEnergyPartyInfluenceDemocraticProgressiveTicketsCouncilUnlikelyNot HappyDominanceTentsWisconsinProgressivismDemocratic Leadership Author:Russ Feingold
“Eminem has talent, and his talent is the thing that influences many young people who would have never gone anywhere near rap. White kids in different parts of the world use him as a barometer and the standard to live up to. In some ways, Eminem is an artist who has ushered in a new movement.” PeopleWorldWayDifferentUseKidsYoungArtistWhiteGoneInfluenceTalentMovementStandardsRapBarometer Author:Chuck D