“I don't think there's anything really wrong with influence because I think that one can use another man's art as material either literally or just implying that they're doing that, without it representing a lack of a point of view.” ThinkingMenArtUseViewsInfluenceMaterialsPoint Of ViewAnother ManRepresentingImplying Author:Robert Rauschenberg
“Throughout his last half-dozen books, for example, Arthur Koestler has been conducting a campaign against his own misunderstanding of Darwinism. He hopes to find some ordering force, constraining evolution to certain directions and overriding the influence of natural selection. [...] Darwinism is not the theory of capricious change that Koestler imagines. Random variation may be the raw material of change, but natural selection builds good design by rejecting most variants while accepting and accumulating the few that improve adaptation to local environments.” MayHas BeensBookLastsCertainForceNaturalHalfAcceptingEnvironmentImagineInfluenceExampleDesignMaterialsTheoryEvolutionCampaignsLocalsDozenSelectionMisunderstandingAdaptationVariationNatural SelectionArthurRejectingRaw MaterialsConductingDarwinismGood DesignCapricious Author:Stephen Jay Gould
“In order to have enough of the raw materials...which will be lacking in wartime, we should plan to acquire and use foreign resources existing in our expected sphere of influence, such as Sakhalim, China, and the Southern Pacific.” ShouldEnoughUseOrderPlansInfluenceMaterialsResourcesChinaExpectedAcquireSouthernSpheresLackingPacificRaw MaterialsWartimeSphere Of Influence Author:Sadao Araki
“If only it were God's will that printed and written materials have as much influence on the people as the princes and their censors fear! Considering the countless good books we have, the world would have changed for the better a long time ago.” PeopleIfsWorldLongBookChangeWrittenInfluenceChangedMaterialsLong TimeGods WillCensorshipConsideringGood BookLong Time AgoPrinted Author:Franz Grillparzer
“Who shall set a limit to the influence of a human being? There are men, who, by their sympathetic attractions, carry nations withthem, and lead the activity of the human race. And if there be such a tie, that, wherever the mind of man goes, nature will accompany him, perhaps there are men whose magnetisms are of that force to draw material and elemental powers, and, where they appear, immense instrumentalities organize around them.” IfsMenMindHumansForceNationsLeadershipHuman BeingsRaceInfluenceMaterialsActivityLimitsDrawsAttractionHuman RaceTiesImmenseOrganizeSympatheticBeing ThereAccompanyElementalsMagnetismMental Power Book:The Annotated Emerson Source: The Annotated Emerson
“[My work] is using light as a material to influence or affect the medium of perception. I feel that I want to use light as this wonderful and magic elixir that we drink as Vitamin D through the skin - and I mean, we are literally light-eaters - to then affect the way that we see.” WayWantFeelsMeanUseLightWonderfulMagicInfluenceMaterialsDrinkPerceptionSkinsMediumsVitaminsElixirVitamin D Author:James Turrell
“It's magical thinking to imagine that the reason unspeakable things are being perpetrated by younger and younger people is that they've fallen under the influence of seductive, lascivious, prurient, and violent material in books, films, television. A great deal of this type of censorship has to do with absolving parents of responsibility - parents who just plop their kids in front of the television and leave them there hour upon hour.” PeopleThinkingBookReasonKidsFilmParentHoursDealsResponsibilityImagineInfluenceFrontsTelevisionMaterialsTypeViolentFallenCensorshipImagine ThatSeductiveUnspeakableMagical Thinking Author:John Irving
“An elegant simplicity is an understated, organic aesthetic that contrasts with the excess of consumerist lifestyles. Drawing from influences ranging from Zen to the Quakers, it celebrates natural materials and clean, functional expressions, such as are found in many of the hand-made arts and crafts from this community.” ArtMadeHandsFoundCommunityNaturalInfluenceExpressionMaterialsCleanSimplicityDrawingLifestyleCelebrateCraftsExcessAestheticContrastElegantQuakerUnderstatedArts And CraftsNatural Materials Author:Duane Elgin
“Usually it's just material that resonates with me and I never know exactly what that's gonna be. And there's obviously a certain persuasion, if you will. It's dependent upon the fact that I'm known for certain genres. So, that influences my decision making as well. I mean I'd love to, for example, do an action thriller but there are a lot of very talented people doing that and so it would be very difficult for me to switch over to that genre. So, I do look for things that I know (will resonate with) my audience.” PeopleIfsKnowsWellsLooksMeanFactsWould BeActionCertainDifficultDecisionKnownAudienceInfluenceExampleMaterialsGenreDependentDecision MakingPersuasionThrillers Author:Michael Landon, Jr.
“Spiritual influence never coincided with material affluence.” SpiritualInfluenceMaterialsAffluence Author:F. F. Bruce
“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.” MatterStatesLawClearOne ThingInfluenceMaterialsNo Matter WhatStructureVarious Author:Vladimir Putin
“The similarity is that concentration of capital influences virtually everything that goes on. It influences the way the media functions, it very powerfully influences how the government works and it of course influences corporate sector elements, like say how Google or Amazon present materials that reach the public.” WayGovernmentCoursesInfluenceMediaMaterialsGoes OnElementsFunctionCorporateConcentrationGoogleVery PowerfulSimilarityAmazonGovernment Work Author:Noam Chomsky
“I am so profoundly aware of my lack of skill to make any material difference. I am not a doctor. I can't influence foreign policy. I can't build schools. I can't chemically engineer the protein paste that helps people with acute malnutrition. But I can talk about it, and so can you.” PeopleI CanHelpingSchoolDifferencesInfluencePolicyMaterialsSkillsDoctorsForeign PolicyEngineersProteinMalnutrition Author:Tom Hiddleston
“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
“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