Best influence & eye Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Our prayer service today and my words are not meant to demonize anyone, but are intended to call attention to the diabolical influences of the devil that have penetrated our culture, both in the state and in the Church. These demonic influences are not readily apparent to the undiscerning eye, which is why they are so deceptive.”

Author:J. Robbins

“The perfection of an art consists in the employment of a comprehensive system of laws, commensurate to every purpose within its scope, but concealed from the eye of the spectator; and in the production of effects that seem to flow forth spontaneously, as though uncontrolled by their influence, and which are equally excellent, whether regarded individually, or in reference to the proposed result.”

Art Seems Eye Law Purpose Results Influence Effects Flow Perfection Productions Employment Excellent Scope Spectators Comprehensive Concealed Purpose Of Art

Book:The Book of Nature: From the Last London Ed., to which is Now Prefixed, a Sketch of the Author's Life

Source: The Book of Nature: From the Last London Ed., to which is Now Prefixed, a Sketch of the Author's Life

“There is no more potent antidote to the corroding influence of mammon than the presence in the community of a body of men devoted to science, living for investigation and caring nothing for the lust of the eyes and the pride of life.”

Men Life Body Eye Science Community Influence Pride Caring Lust Investigation Devoted Antidote

Book:Osler's

Source: Osler's

“A great influence in my life was the sanctified or Holiness churches...Everybody in there sang and they clapped and stomped heir feet and sang with their whole body... Their music was so strong and expressive, it used to bring tears to my eyes.”

Whole Body Eye Used Strong Church Music Feet Influence Tears Holiness Heirs Expressive Great Influence

Author:Mahalia Jackson

“The world's equilibrium hath been upset through the vibrating influence of this most great, this new World Order. Mankind's ordered life hath been revolutionized through the agency of this unique, this wondrous System - the like of which mortal eyes have never witnessed.”

World Eye Order Influence Mankind Unique Mortals Upset Agency New World Equilibrium New World Order World Order Wondrous Baha

Author:Bahá'u'lláh

“Each of our cells is a living entity, and the main thing that influences them is our blood. If I open my eyes in the morning and my beautiful partner is in front of me, my perception causes a release of oxytocin, dopamine, growth hormones - all of which encourage the growth and health of my cells. But if I see a saber tooth tiger, I'm going to release stress hormones which change the cells to a protection mode. People need to realize that their thoughts are more primary than their genes, because the environment, which is influenced by our thoughts, controls the genes.”

“Is there any wilderness of sand in the deserts of Arabia, is there any prospect of desolation among the ruins of Palestine, which can rival the repelling effect on the eye, and the depressing influence on the mind, of an English country town in the first stage of its existence, and in the transition state of its prosperity?”

Source: The Woman in White: Wilkie Collins Top Collections

“In general, therefore, color is a means of exerting a direct influence upon the soul. Color is the keyboard. The eye is the hammer. The soul is the piano with its many strings. The artist is the hand that purposefully sets the soul vibrating by means of this or that key.”

Mean Soul Hands Eye Artist Influence Color Keys Direct Piano Strings Hammers Keyboards

Book:Kandinsky, Complete Writings on Art

Source: Kandinsky, Complete Writings on Art

“Because of the influence of the cinema, most reports or stories of violence are so pictorial that they lack content or meaning. The camera brings them to our eyes, but does not settle them in our minds, nor in time.”

Mind Doe Stories Eye Violence Influence Cameras Settling Cinema Reports Pictorial

Author:V. S. Pritchett

“Prep school, public school, university: these now tedious influences standardize English autobiography, giving the educated Englishman the sad if fascinating appearance of a stuffed bird of sly and beady eye in some old seaside museum. The fixation on school has become a class trait. It manifests itself as a mixture of incurious piety and parlour game.”

Ifs Giving Eye School Games Class Influence Bird University Appearance Educated Fascinating Museums Traits Autobiography Mixtures Public School Englishmen Piety Tedious Sly Preps Fixation

Author:V. S. Pritchett

“Reason can no more influence the will, and operate as a motive, than the eyes which show a man his road can enable him to move from place to place, or that a ship provided with a compass can sail without a wind.”

Men Reason Shows Eye Moving Influence Wind Ships Motive Sail Compass

Author:Richard Whately

“As we breathe and live, have a conversation, and you look in someone's eyes, and you see a sunset or have an argument or read a book or see a painting or whatever you do, it influences you. And as you live your art, it changes and grows just like you and your soul or whatever you want to call it. For me, it's never-ending, I call it "the organizer of chaos." That's what I do with this and I present it in a way that I dream. So basically, I'm just sharing my dreams with all of you.”

Way Want Looks Art Book Soul Dream Eye Grows Influence Painting Like You Conversation Argument Chaos Breathe Your Soul Sunset Never Ending Organizer

Author:Jared Leto

“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?”

People Thinking Knows World Want Writing Trying Heart Reason Eye Artist Decision Responsibility Influence Inspire Musician Conscious Get Better Public Eye Positive Change Influencing People

Author:Brett Dennen

“The cultural influences in our country are like the floo floo bird. I am referring to the peculiar and especial bird who always flew backward. To keep the wind out of its eyes? No. Just because it didn't give a darn where it was going, but just had to see where it had been.”

Giving Country Eye Past Influence Wind Bird Our Country Peculiar Flew Referring

Book:Frank Lloyd Wright Collected Writings: 1931-1939

Source: Frank Lloyd Wright Collected Writings: 1931-1939

“God is everywhere present by His power. He rolls the orbs of heaven with His hand; He fixes the earth with His foot; He guides all creatures with His eye, and refreshes them with His influence; He makes the powers of hell to shake with His terrors, and binds the devils with His word.”

God Hands Eye Earth Heaven Hell Feet Influence Creatures Devil Terror Guides His Eyes Shakes Orbs

Book:The House of Understanding: Selections from the Writings of Jeremy Taylor by Margaret Gest

Source: The House of Understanding: Selections from the Writings of Jeremy Taylor by Margaret Gest

“true influence over another comes not from a moments eloquence nor from any happily chosen word, but from the accumulation of a lifetime's thoughts stored up in the eyes...the secret smile in the eyes of a friend”

Moments Eye Secret Influence Lifetime Chosen Accumulation Eloquence Secret Smile

Author:Thornton Wilder

“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

“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

“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

“The human measure of a human life is its income; the divine measure of a life is its outgo, its overflow its contribution to the welfare of all.... If every word spoken in behalf of truth has its influence and every deed done for the right weighs in the final account, it is immaterial to the Christian whether his eyes behold victory or whether he dies in the midst of conflict.”

Ifs Humans Done Eye Christian Life Is Dies Influence Divine Victory Conflict Accounts Finals Deeds Income Human Life Welfare His Eyes Contribution Midst Behalf Overflow Deeds Done

Author:William Jennings Bryan

“I want to be a positive influence in little girls' eyes. Little girls need to be confident and grow up with a healthy state of mind. It's a tough, tough world out there.”

World Want Needs Mind Littles States Eye Girl Grows Growing Up Influence Healthy Tough State Of Mind Be Confident Positive Influence Tough World

Author:Christy Carlson Romano

“Everything is being transformed under the magic influence of science and technology. And every day, if we want to live with open eyes, we have a problem to study, to resolve.”

Ifs Want Problem Eye Technology Study Magic Influence Resolve Transformed Science And Technology Open Eyes

Author:Pope Pius VI

“I knew that Vaclav Havel didn't want to look into people's eyes, because he said that, when he was being interrogated during the communist period and had been taken to jail, that, if you look directly into somebody's eyes, they can persuade you. And so you can see that so clearly in this interview, where he's looking down.And I kept saying to him as we kept coming - came over here: " You have to look up."And I clearly had no influence on him.”

People Ifs Want Looks Said Eye Taken Influence Periods Down And Interviews Look Up Jail Communist Looking Down

Author:Judy Woodruff

“I feel that if you're in the public eye in any way that you do have a little bit of influence on people.”

People Ifs Way Feels Littles Eye Bits Influence Little Bit Public Eye

Author:Mike Ness

“People keep asking me if recently performing the Betty album will influence the song-writing and I think it might. There's songs on that record that I forgot about and it's really nice to have that variety in the set along with tracks from Strap It On, Meantime, Aftertaste, Size Matters, Monochrome, and Seeing Eye Dog.”

People Ifs Thinking Writing Matter Might Eye Song Records Nice Seeing Influence Dog Asking Size Track Albums Variety Performing Really Nice Monochrome

Author:Page Hamilton

“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

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