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“When people ask me my influences and I'm like, "nobody" they're like, "there has to be somebody." People seem to think you have to have an influence.”

People Thinking Seems Asks Influence Ask Me

Author:Vince Staples

“An inanimate being is, of course, continuous with its surroundings; but the environing circumstances do not, save metaphorically, constitute an environment. For the inorganic being is not concerned in the influences which affect it.”

Courses Environment Influence Circumstances Concerned Surroundings Save Me

Book:Democracy And Education

Source: Democracy And Education

“The school has the function of coordinating within the disposition of each individual the diverse influences of the various social environments into which he enters.”

School Individual Social Environment Influence Function Various Diverse Disposition Social Environment Coordinating

Book:Democracy And Education

Source: Democracy And Education

“Even when a person is frightened by threats into doing something, the threats work only because the person has an instinct of fear. If he has not, or if, though having it, it is under his own control, the threat has no more influence upon him than light has in causing a person to see who has no eyes.”

Ifs Persons Light Eye Influence Threat Instinct Frightened

Book:Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education

Source: Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education

“When others are not doing what we would like them to or are threatening disobedience, we are most conscious of the need of controlling them and of the influences by which they are controlled.”

Needs Influence Conscious Controlled Threatening Disobedience

Book:Democracy And Education

Source: Democracy And Education

“There is not, in fact, any such thing as the direct influence of one human being on another apart from use of the physical environment as an intermediary. A smile, a frown, a rebuke, a word of warning or encouragement, all involve some physical change. Otherwise, the attitude of one would not get over to alter the attitude of another.”

Humans Facts Use Human Beings Attitude Environment Influence Direct Encouragement Warning Get Over Rebuke

Book:Democracy And Education

Source: Democracy And Education

“The thing that a lot of people may or may not know is every artist is a cinephile, whether they watch movies whether they're painting, or have films that influence them.”

People Knows May Film Artist Watches Influence Painting Watch Movie

Author:Laurie Simmons

“The Beatles had an influence on everybody. You have to realize what an incredible explosion the Beatles were.”

Realizing Influence Incredibles Explosions

Author:Lemmy Kilmister

“It is a major world power, and today it is an economic and military leader - no doubt about it. That is why America has a strong influence on the situation in the world in general.”

World Today America Strong Situation Leader Doubt Influence Economic Military Majors No Doubt Military Leader World Power

Author:Vladimir Putin

“Russia should be competitive, be able to protect its own interests and influence the processes that are important to it.”

Should Important Able Process Interest Influence Protect Russia

Author:Vladimir Putin

“One thing is clear, everyone, no matter what their professional or material status, no matter what their influence on various state structures, must obey the law.”

Matter States Law Clear One Thing Influence Materials No Matter What Structure Various

Author:Vladimir Putin

“The Central Bank should take into account other things as well: the stability of the bank system in the country, the increase or decrease of money supply in the economy, its influence on inflation.”

Should Wells Country Economy Influence Accounts Increase Stability Inflation Decrease Central Banks

Author:Vladimir Putin

“Mrs. [Hillary] Clinton is focusing on a different part of the voters trying to influence them in her own way as well; so they attack each other [with Donald Trump].”

Way Trying Wells Different Influence Trump Clinton Voters

Author:Vladimir Putin

“If you ask me now, I think every single writer whose work I've read has had some influence upon me, and I continue to be influenced, subtly, by everything I read, like a sponge. But then, what writers aren't? Being a literary sponge is one of the prerequisites for this insanity.”

Ifs Thinking Asks Influence Ask Me Insanity Prerequisites Sponges

Author:Vera Nazarian

“Influence is a matter of selection - both acceptance and rejection.”

Matter Influence Acceptance Rejection Selection

Book:Conversations with Edward Albee

Source: Conversations with Edward Albee

“A person needs at intervals to separate himself from family and companions and go to new places. He must go without familiars in order to be open to influences, to change.”

Needs Persons Order Influence Adventure Companion Intervals New Places

Book:The Journals and Letters of the Little Locksmith

Source: The Journals and Letters of the Little Locksmith

“Life is a building. It rises slowly, day by day throughout the years. Every new lesson we learn lays a block on the edifice, which is rising silently within us. Every experience, every touch of another life on ours, every influence that impresses us, every book we read, every conversation we hear, every act of our commonest days, adds something to the invisible building.”

Life Years Book Life Is Influence Building Lessons Conversation Lays Add Invisible Block Rising Impress Another Life Edifice

Author:J.R. Miller

“Your thoughts and actions not only influence your mood, but the moods of all you cross paths with. Thinking lovingly. Do lovingly. Be a messenger for love.”

Thinking Love Action Path Influence Crosses Mood Messengers Thoughts And Actions

Author:Karen Salmansohn

“The words we use don't matter as much as the emotion behind the words. When we understand this, we have the ability to influence, inspire, persuade and affect others.”

Matter Use Ability Emotion Behinds Influence Inspire

Author:Darren Hardy

“In our decrees, it is definitely proclaimed that religion is a question for the private individual; but whilst opportunists tended to see in these words the meaning that the state would adopt the policy of folded arms, the Marxian revolutionary recognizes the duty of the state to lead a most resolute struggle against religion by means of ideological influences on the proletarian masses.”

Mean States Individual Struggle Influence Policy Duty Arms Mass Jew Revolutionary Ideological Decree Resolute Opportunist Against Religion

Author:Leon V. DePoncins

“Where the heart is full of kindness which seeks no injury to another, either in act or thought or wish, this full love creates an atmosphere of harmony, whose benign power touches with healing all who come within its influence. Peace in the heart radiates peace to other hearts, even more surely than contention breeds contention.”

Heart Wish Healing Kindness Influence Harmony Atmosphere Injury Contention Benign

Book:The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali

Source: The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali

“I think all of us would agree that a lot of Christian radio sounds the same. A lot of music that comes out of Nashville kind of has a little bit of the same vibe. Because I don't live in Nashville, I surround myself with a culture and an influence that's outside that bubble. So when the church hears it, it's refreshing, and when the world hears it, it sounds like something they want to listen to.”

Thinking World Want Kind Littles Christian Culture Bits Sound Church Influence Little Bit Agree Radio Surround Bubbles Like Something Refreshing Nashville

Author:Dominic Balli

“Peter Fonda was just this clean, cookie-cutter kind of a guy. Roger Corman turned him into the motorcycle man with The Wild Angels. Jack Nicholson, all of them, they all had these images that Roger Corman fueled, and Easy Rider, it was a big surprise to understand how much creative influence Roger had. A lot of people dismiss him as just launching famous people's careers or being a penny pinching producer, but he's so much more than that.”

“China is in its own category - too big to ignore, too repressive to embrace, difficult to influence, and very, very proud.”

Bigs Difficult Influence Proud Embrace China Categories

Author:Madeleine Albright

“There is not one shred of evidence that the Internet has had any downward influence on North American or European newspaper circulation.”

Influence Internet Evidence Newspapers Circulation

Author:Conrad Black

“True practical Christianity (never let it be forgotten) consists in devoting the heart and life to God; in being supremely and habitually governed by a desire to know, and a disposition to fulfill his will, and in endeavoring under the influence of these motives to 'live to his glory.' Where these essential requisites are wanting, however amiable the character may be, however creditable and respectable among men, yet, as it possesses not the grand distinguishing essence, it must not be complimented with the name of Christianity.”

Knows Men Heart May Character Desire Names Christianity Influence Essentials Glory Essence Forgotten Practicals Motive Disposition Respectable Amiable

Book:A Practical View

Source: A Practical View

“I hated discussing ideas with investors, because then I become a Defender of the Idea, and that influences your thought process.”

Ideas Process Influence Hated Investors Discussing Defenders Thought Process

Author:Michael Burry

“The finest imagination in the world could not have conceived of a better idea than the philosophers' stone to inspire the minds and faculties of men. Without it, chemistry would not be what it is today. In order to discover that no such thing as the philosopher's stone existed, it was necessary to ransack and analyze every substance known on earth. And in precisely this lay its miraculous influence.”

Men World Mind Ideas Today Earth Order Imagination Known Influence Inspire Stones Lays Philosopher Substance Faculty Chemistry Finest Miraculous

Author:Justus von Liebig

“The expectations of theory colour perception to such a degree that new notions seldom arise from facts collected under the influence of old pictures of the world. New pictures cast their influence before facts can be seen in a different perspective.”

World Different Facts Influence Theory Perspective Degrees Perception Expectations Notion Casts Arise Colour Different Perspective Old Picture

Author:Niles Eldredge

“People have said on blogs - which is kind of where I decide where to describe my style, from other people telling me - so I don't know, people say it's like, "electro-pop with glam and old rock influences." Or it's "indie pop" or whatever that means.”

People Knows Kind Mean Said Influence Rocks Style Pops Blogs Glam Old Rock

Author:BØRNS

“It's like, say you're a dancer and you've been studying modern dance your whole life so you're used to a certain aesthetic of music or motivation or influence, if I send you something that you're totally not used to or don't understand, rarely does that work. On the average, you're not gonna feel that and it won't be you. You have to be in there.”

Ifs Feels Doe Whole Used Motivation Certain Study Influence Modern Average Whole Life Dancer Be You Aesthetic Modern Dance

Author:Jlin

“I'm very influenced by a lot of things, but my chief influence is my friends and what I see and what I feel and my own experiences and memory.”

Feels Memories My Own Influence My Friends Chiefs Experiences And Memories

Author:Nan Goldin

“I think that the world will continue trying to grapple with the climate problem, no matter who is U.S. president. But I think that, depending on who that president is, it can have a significant influence on the trajectory.”

Thinking World Trying Matter Problem President Influence Climate Significant Trajectory

Author:Chris Mooney

“I really wanted to explore a range of women who aren't necessarily perfect, heroic women. I wanted to series to influence creative people to include more women in their work, especially historic works.”

People Wanted Perfect Creative Influence Series Range Heroic Historic Creative People

Author:Anita Sarkeesian

“I had a lot of classical influences. I had classical music and opera and literature, but I also liked sleaze. And putting it together, sleaze and glamour, it just made sense to me.”

Made Together Literature Influence Opera Glamour Classical Music Sleazes

Author:Rick Owens

“I'm really curious as to the actual structure of the Emni [the intelligence unit that handles foreign attacks]. And Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, the head of it. There are so few pictures of him. We don't even really know what he looks like. For somebody with this outsized influence projecting murder abroad, you'd think that we would know a lot more by now. And then the role of the hostages.”

Thinking Knows Looks Roles Influence Murder Structure Handle Curious Als Now And Then Units Muhammad Hostage

Author:Rukmini Maria Callimachi

“What I write about is how much influence it's had in things like state legislatures and governorships and congressional races. The other thing that's even more important in the long run is that very extreme money has affected the ecosystem of ideology in the country.”

Writing Long Important Country States Running Race Influence Extremes Ideology Affected Long Runs Legislature Ecosystems State Legislatures

Author:Jane Mayer

“My mother was a huge influence on me - she was a free spirit and helped me appreciate, from a very early age, that everyone is different.”

Different Age Spirit Mother Influence Huge Appreciate Free Spirit Everyone Is Different

Author:Christian Louboutin

“Bad Influence, which is an early movie of mine that I'm very fond of. It was an unhappy experience when that picture got released, because it coincided with that ridiculous Rob Lowe videotape scandal.”

Influence Mines Ridiculous Unhappy Scandal Lowes

Author:Curtis Hanson

“Rob Lowe, who I thought was really good in the movie [ Bad Influence], had his performance overshadowed by this sort of tabloid approach to him and the movie.”

Influence Approach Performances Tabloids Lowes

Author:Curtis Hanson

“As ridiculous as it is for anybody who knows how movies are made, there were people who actually wrote in reviews that this picture [Bad Influence] had been put out to capitalize on the scandal. Which, of course, would have been impossible.”

People Knows Has Beens Made Courses Know How Impossible Influence Ridiculous Reviews Scandal

Author:Curtis Hanson

“Take Google - I can use it, you can use it, anyone else can use it, but we all know its designed so that private power can influence significantly how you access it.”

Knows I Can Use Influence Access Google

Author:Noam Chomsky

Way Government Courses Influence Media Materials Goes On Elements Function Corporate Concentration Google Very Powerful Similarity Amazon Government Work

Author:Noam Chomsky

“In a society that has very high concentration of capital in a narrow sector of the population, that's going to influence everything in different ways.”

Way Different Influence Population Different Ways Concentration

Author:Noam Chomsky

“The senate was wealthy people and it wasn't elected, it was chosen through legislatures, which themselves were under private influence, powerful influence. They were remote from the population and that's where power was suppose to reside.”

People Powerful Influence Population Chosen Wealthy Senate Legislature

Author:Noam Chomsky

“My own feeling is that a corporation has no right to have a political or social influence.”

Feelings Political Social My Own Influence Corporations

Author:Noam Chomsky

“Donald Trump business connections, which are really horrifying. I mean, they make Hillary Clinton look like small change when it comes to influence peddlin and really engaging the most nefarious forces around the world.”

World Looks Mean Force Influence Trump Connections Clinton Around The World Engaging Small Changes

Author:Jill Stein

“Even heads of our own security agency said, you know, we need to take a deep breath on this. This really doesn't seem to be happening [that Russians are trying to influence American domestic politics ].”

Knows Needs Trying Said Seems Influence Security Happenings Breaths Agency Deep Breath Take A Deep Breath

Author:Jill Stein

“I think that cultural influence is very deep, it is not on the surface and this is true in every culture.”

Thinking Culture Influence Surface Very Deep

Author:Michael Craig-Martin

“There is a tradition of "modernist" theology arising out of post-Kantian thought - Fichte was the real father of it, but Schleiermacher and others also developed it - which might have more promise if it had greater influence on popular religion.”

Ifs Real Might Father Greater Influence Promise Tradition Theology Posts Real Father

Author:Allen W. Wood

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