“I guess I always like being asked questions about influence or inspiration, like, "What are you reading? Who are your heroes? Is there any one person you want to shout out to now?" I really love paying it forward with love and attention, because that's what I like to read.” WantPersonsInspirationReadingAttentionInfluenceHeroShout OutPay It Forward Author:Zoe Kazan
“You know, sometimes a person's reputation can be far more colossal than the influence of the person. I don't pay any attention to it anymore.” KnowsPersonsSometimesPayAttentionInfluenceReputationColossal Author:Bob Dylan
“We like to pile language on language. Hunter [ S. Thompson] was an influence on me, no doubt about it.” LanguageDoubtInfluenceNo DoubtHuntersHunter's Thompson Author:P. J. O'Rourke
“We also have a lot of the same influences - we both read a lot of the beatniks. And yet what we actually do is almost exactly the opposite. His [ Hunter S. Thompson] political stuff is just wonderful, but basically nothing happens.” HappensPoliticalStuffWonderfulInfluenceOppositesThings HappenHuntersBeatnikHunter's Thompson Author:P. J. O'Rourke
“I'm in an odd position because I write across so many genres for so many people and they all influence me, and if I'm going to write as honest an album as possible, it's going to be layered.” PeopleIfsWritingInfluenceHonestPositionAlbumsGenreOdd Author:Ryan Tedder
“I never thought I'd be a good influence on anybody with anything I did or said or sang.” SaidInfluenceGood Influences Author:Randy Travis
“I try to influence this improvisation in two ways. One is by centering on reflections, in both senses of the word: acoustic reflections as well as visual reflections from a mirror or surface, and then reflecting on the material in a contemplative way. The other influence is listening to the tails of the sounds that you make.” WayTryingWellsTwoSoundInfluenceMaterialsListeningReflectionMirrorsSurfaceSensesVisualsTailsReflectingTwo WaysImprovisationAcousticsContemplativeCentering Author:Pauline Oliveros
“India deliberately aggravated Sri Lanka's ethnic crisis. It destabilized Sri Lanka [by training and arming Tamil militants, including the Tigers] so that it could play a dominant role in bringing Sri Lanka within its sphere of influence.” PlayRolesInfluenceTrainingIndiaCrisisIncludingSpheresDominantTigersSri LankaAggravatedSphere Of Influence Author:Velupillai Prabhakaran
“We're also more affected by aspirational signals in an offline world where it is more difficult to "hide" and thus indirectly increases the influence from others.” WorldDifficultInfluenceIncreaseAffectedSignalsOffline Author:Martin Lindstrom
“At least on the domestic side of things that you`re seeing, [Mike] Pence has that influence big time. But when it comes with what political fights to have?” BigsPoliticalFightingSidesSeeingInfluenceMike Author:Chuck Todd
“[ Jonathan] Edwards is the person who really made theological determinism a serious option for Reformed thinkers, and the influence his views had in nineteenth century Reformed thought, in the USA and the UK in particular, is enormous.” PersonsMadeViewsInfluenceCenturyParticularSeriousEnormousUsaThinkerTheologicalNineteenth CenturyDeterminism Author:Oliver D. Crisp
“I love radio! I think radio, done right, can have more influence and have a greater connection with people and be more deeply meaningful than another medium like TV, which is on all the time and you're paying attention to it half the time.” PeopleThinkingDoneAttentionHalfGreaterInfluenceTvsConnectionsRadioMeaningfulMediumsPay Attention Author:Rush Limbaugh
“To be effective at selling ideas, at being a lobbyist, influencing other people, you have to be very sure of yourself.” PeopleIdeasInfluenceSellingLobbyists Author:Duncan Green
“I think influence is one way to exercise power and that the challenge is whether it is power over or power with. That's the essential shift that I hope can happen in the world.” ThinkingWorldWayHappensChallengesInfluenceExerciseEssentialsOne Way Author:Peter Buffett
“I don't think my father had a direct influence on me, but I do think, more or less, I was influenced by his independent individualism. And the kind of condition he had when he was in this society - the kind of mistreatment society gave him.” ThinkingKindFatherInfluenceConditionsDirectIndependentIndividualismThis SocietyMistreatment Author:Ai Weiwei
“[Barack] Obama isn't pointing to anyone, and certainly doesn't like it when others note (correctly) that his influences were the likes of Saul Alinsky, the Chicagoan and modern founder of community organizing, or Frank Marshall Davis, the communist journalist and agitator from Chicago who mentored Obama in Hawaii in the latter 1970s, and who Obama warmly acknowledges in his memoirs.” CommunityInfluenceModernNotesLikesMemoirBarackJournalistAcknowledgeLatterCommunistChicagoFrankFoundersHawaiiPointingCommunity Organizing Author:Paul Kengor
“Hopefully women can work with [Ivanka Trump ] to influence up the chain of command. I think it's good for us, for women. It's a glimmer of hope.” ThinkingInfluenceTrumpCommandChainsHopefullyChain Of Command Author:Paula Broadwell
“I think different designers have different points of view and different strong personalities can influence the way certain cities are perceived.” ThinkingWayDifferentCertainStrongViewsCitiesInfluencePersonalityPoint Of ViewDesignerDifferent Points Of ViewThink DifferentStrong PersonStrong Personality Author:Michael Bierut
“It's hard to predict what will happen as reading on screen becomes more of a universal norm, and when the formats dictated by social media - Twitter's 140-character limit, for instance - start to influence what we're used to.” HardCharacterHappensUsedReadingSocialInfluenceMediaLimitsUniversalSocial MediaScreensInstanceNormFormat140 Character Author:Michael Bierut
“We should not let negative influences get to us.” ShouldInfluenceNegativeNegative Influence Author:St. Lucia
“How do you measure whether or not a strategy of economic growth that is articulated by a very smart, capable economist actually yields growth? You can't. But you can influence.” GrowthInfluenceEconomicCapableSmartStrategyYieldEconomistEconomic GrowthVery Smart Author:George W. Bush
“During the '80s, those you would call the young philosophers of France, such as Bernard-Henri Lévy and [André ] Gluxman, pointed out that Camus had said things no one wanted to hear in the political arena. They said it was [Albert] Camus who was right, not those who had slid under the influence of Sartre, that is to say an unconditional devotion to Communism as seen in the Soviet Union. And ever since then the evaluation of Camus has continued to modify up until today” SaidTodayWantedYoungPoliticalInfluenceUnionsPhilosopherDevotionCommunismFranceSovietThey SaidSoviet Union80sArenaUnconditionalEvaluation Author:Catherine Camus
“[Albert Camus] wasn't writing under the influence of the Nobel Prize. That was an external thing for the artist in him.” WritingArtistInfluencePrizeNobelNobel Prize Author:Catherine Camus
“If you stay in the mainstream of life, in other words, you let in the suffering of the world that invariably enters all of our lives by the time we're in our middle years, when we've experienced a few deaths and read a few headlines. Famine, poverty, abuse, you can't keep that all blocked out. If you let those things teach you, influence you, change you, those are the events that transition you without you even knowing it to become more compassionate. In other words, you hold onto your values, but you do it much more inclusively, humbly and in an open ended way. Suffering takes you there.” IfsWorldWayYearsSufferingValuesPovertyTeachKnowingOur LivesInfluenceMiddleEventsAbuseLive ByTransitionCompassionateMainstreamWithout YouFamineHeadlinesBlocked Author:Richard Rohr
“As for whether genre considerations influence what I write, they don't at all, but I might sell more books if they did. The Night Journal is a hodge-podge of historical fiction, western, mystery, and contemporary domestic drama. It doesn't settle into a specific market, reviewers have a hard time describing it, and sometimes it gets classified weirdly in bookstores. But from a writer's standpoint, I like that it's hard to categorize.” IfsWritingBookSometimesHardMightNightFictionMysteryInfluenceDramaSellsHistoricalWesternContemporaryGenreSettlingHard TimesConsiderationHistorical FictionJournalDescribingStandpointBookstoresReviewers Author:Elizabeth Crook
“I think when you're a writer most of what you read influences you. The rhythms get into your head.” ThinkingInfluenceRhythm Author:Elizabeth Crook
“The author with the greatest influence on me is my friend Stephen Harrigan, who critiques everything I write before I even bother to show it to my agent or editor. He's a truly great writer - author of Gates of the Alamo and other books you might know of, and his instincts about what's working in a story, and what's not, are just about perfect. My books would be very different without his influence.” KnowsWritingBookDifferentStoriesShowsMightWould BePerfectInfluenceMy FriendsInstinctAgentsBotherGatesEditorsCritiqueGreat WritersAlamo Author:Elizabeth Crook
“You say the character [of Leo Bloom] was meek and insecure, and you could've been describing me as well. I was a very shy person in those days, and working with Zero [Mostel], who was bigger than life, helped me grow. Zero was a strong influence on me.” WellsPersonsCharacterStrongGrowsInfluenceBiggerShyZeroInsecureDescribingMeekBigger Than LifeDescribe MeShy Person Author:Gene Wilder
“As I said, this [repercussions] may take different forms : direct and indirect. Direct when people want to retaliate, or governments. Indirect when you're going to have instability and the spread of terrorism all over the region that will influence the west directly.” PeopleWantMaySaidDifferentGovernmentFormInfluenceDirectWestSpreadTerrorismRegionsInstabilityRepercussionsIndirectDirect And Indirect Author:Bashar al-Assad
“With the time, yes we can be worried, because the secular state should reflect secular society, and this secular society, with the time, if you don't get rid of those terrorists and these extremists and the Wahabi style, of course it will influence at least the new and the coming generations.” IfsShouldStatesCoursesGenerationsInfluenceStyleTerroristWorriedSecularExtremistYes We CanSecular Society Author:Bashar al-Assad
“We all, we all good people just trying to escape the negative influence that come around us and that's the story of my life, you know? Trying my best to get around the ills and I bumped my head a few times but I think, you know, music is my savior for right now, for me and my whole group.” PeopleThinkingKnowsTryingWholeStoriesGroupsInfluenceRight NowMusic IsNegativeSaviorGood PeopleStory Of My LifeNegative Influence Author:Kendrick Lamar
“There isn't [in new atheism]. Nothing that wasn't in Bertrand Russell or probably Robert Ingersoll. But I suppose it is more of a political effect, in that all these books happened to come out at the same time. I like to think that we have some influence.” ThinkingBookPoliticalHappenedAtheismInfluenceEffects Author:Richard Dawkins
“I had relatives in New York City who I stayed with. And in those days, the area from Union Square down Fourth Avenue had small bookstores, many of which were run by Spanish immigrants who'd fled after [Francisco] Franco's victory. I spent time in them, and also in the offices of Freie Arbeiter Stimme (Free Worker's Voice) with anarchists. I picked up a lot of material and talked to people, and it became a major influence.” PeopleRunningVoiceCitiesInfluenceNew YorkMaterialsVictoryOfficeMajorsAreasUnionsWorkersImmigrantsNew York CitySquaresFourthAvenuesAnarchistBookstoresFrancoFrancisco Franco Author:Noam Chomsky
“When I think back to my influences and icons musically, they were my icons musically because, for example, I would look at Rakim and be like man he said the freshest things and then I look at him and he would have on the pair of Nikes that I wanted and I'm like, "ma' please!" It was everything. Now, I sort of feel like if you are fresh then your music doesn't have to be that good because people are so keyed into the fashion. That's just the times I guess.” PeopleIfsThinkingMenFeelsLooksSaidWantedInfluenceFashionExamplePleasePairsIconsNike Author:Pusha T
“We change people, but oftentimes we get so focused on the negative people and their influence on us, we forget how powerful we are as positive people to influence others.” PeopleForgetPowerfulInfluenceNegativeFocusedNegative PeoplePositive People Author:Michelle Gielan
“With respect to Russia, my principal approach to Russia has been constant since I first came into office. Russia is an important country. It is a military superpower. It has influence in the region and it has influence around the world.” WorldFirstsHas BeensImportantCountryInfluenceMilitaryOfficeApproachConstantRussiaAround The WorldRegionsPrincipalSuperpower Author:Barack Obama
“If we want to really reduce foreign influence on our elections, then we better think about how to make sure that our political process, our political dialogue is stronger than it's been.” IfsThinkingWantPoliticalProcessInfluenceStrongerElectionDialoguePolitical Dialogue Author:Barack Obama
“Your position in the hierarchy influences your behaviour.” InfluencePositionBehaviourHierarchy Author:Michael Marmot
“I'm not an Orthodox Jew, I don't practise much in the way of Jewish religion, but I am very Jewish and I think it probably does indeed influence what I do.” ThinkingWayDoeInfluenceJewOrthodoxPractiseJewish Religion Author:Michael Marmot
“I've pursued a lifetime in the research on the social determinants of health and more recently been packaging not just my research but global research on this topic in a way that I hope will influence policy.” WaySocialInfluencePolicyResearchLifetimeTopicsPursuedPackaging Author:Michael Marmot
“We have not looked at any particular movies [in creating War Horse], but again, it's hard not to see the similarities between those movies [because of those filmmakers' influence on the industry].” WarHardInfluenceParticularIndustryCreatingHorseFilmmakerSimilarityWar Horse Author:Janusz Kaminski
“Because U.K. artists aren't compensated when their music is played on U.S. radio stations, U.S. artists aren't compensated when their records are played on U.K. stations based on the fact that there's no reciprocity. If that income came in, our artists would be paying income taxes on it. So if we can get a lot of policy on the radar, that may have some positive influence.” IfsMayFactsWould BeArtistRecordsInfluencePolicyTaxesMusic IsRadioIncomeStationsIncome TaxReciprocityRadarRadio StationsPositive Influence Author:Neil Portnow
“C.S. Lewis had a big influence on me in this spiritual realm - this sort of sense of longing. A longing for a knowledge that is just outside of our reach, a knowledge for a spiritual connection.” BigsSpiritualInfluenceConnectionsLongingRealmsSpiritual Connection Author:Francis Collins
“I know that the Bible has been a central influence in [Elie Wiesel and Frank Moore Cross] lives - but in a very different way. In truth, you inhabit very different Biblical worlds.” KnowsWorldWayHas BeensDifferentInfluenceCrossesDifferent WaysFrankBiblical Author:Hershel Shanks
“Very potent influence on myself has been Finnish.” Has BeensInfluenceFinnish Author:J. R. R. Tolkien
“We're well aware, and we have been for a long time, that there is a real threat from adversaries, state actors, non-state actors, to hack us, influence us, destroy stuff through cyber means. Because cyber threat has been understood for a while, it's longstanding, it's a concern.” WellsMeanLongHas BeensRealStatesActorsStuffInfluenceLong TimeUnderstoodConcernThreatAdversariesHacksCyber Author:Susan Rice
“There was a time, with the Berlin Wall down, that [it looked as if] the UN finally could do what it was set up to do, the rivalry between the two camps would dissipate, and we could all co-operate. And then, of course, Iraq came and blew it all apart. These upheavals will always take place in the world, and the design and construct of the UN ideally should be such that it can deal with these upheavals, and possibly influence them, and survive and thrive, but it doesn't work out that way, because as an organisation we are so dependent on the same member states.” IfsWorldWayShouldTwoStatesCoursesDealsInfluenceDesignWallMembersIraqWork OutDependentThriveCampsConstructsBerlinOrganisationPlaces In The WorldRivalryUpheavalBerlin Wall Author:Kofi Annan
“The fact that so many of your people are today residents and citizens of the United States, lending their influence to our civic and economic life, which has meant so much to our development.” PeopleStatesFactsTodayUnitedUnited StatesInfluenceEconomicDevelopmentCitizensCivicsResidentsLending Author:Frank B. Kellogg