Best influence & taste Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Art is one of the few products that is almost a totally emotional buy. It is a mystery what contributes to a person's personal taste. However, being educated about the artist and his/her career may influence your decision regarding a purchase.”

May Persons Art Artist Decision Careers Mystery Influence Emotional Products Taste Art Is Educated Personal Taste

Author:Ernest West Basden

“The Americans... are almost ignorant of the art of music, one of the most elevating, innocent and refining of human tastes, whose influence on the habits and morals of a people is of the most beneficial tendency.”

People Humans Art Moral Influence Habit Taste Ignorant Innocent Tendencies Beneficial Refining Elevating

Author:James F. Cooper

“The influence of friendship upon culture differs from that of love, in that it assumes the basic idiosyncrasies of personal taste to be unalterable. Love, in spite of all rational knowledge to the contrary, is always in the mood of believing in miracles.”

Believe Culture Influence Taste Miracle Assuming Contrary Mood Rational Spite Idiosyncrasies Personal Taste

Author:John Cowper Powys

“Had the Bible been in clear straightforward language, had the ambiguities and contradictions been edited out, and had the language been constantly modernised to accord with contemporary taste it would almost certainly have been, or become, a work of lesser influence.”

Has Beens Language Clear Atheism Influence Taste Contemporary Contradiction Ambiguity Accord Straightforward Edited

Author:John Kenneth Galbraith

“They say your childhood influences your tastes and interests, or your approach if you're an artist. So what you create, whatever you saw, whatever your childhood was like - it influences how you're going to end up.”

Ifs Ends Artist Interest Saws Influence Childhood Taste Approach Your Children

Author:Brett Ratner

“Addison writes with the ease of a gentleman. His readers fancy that a wise and accomplished companion is talking to them; so thathe insinuates his sentiments and taste into their minds by an imperceptible influence. Johnson writes like a teacher. He dictates to his readers as if from an academical chair. They attend with awe and admiration; and his precepts are impressed upon them by his commanding eloquence. Addison's style, like a light wine, pleases everybody from the first. Johnson's, like a liquor of more body, seems too strong at first, but, by degrees, is highly relished.”

Source: The life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: comprehending an account of his studies and numerous works, in chronological order; a series of his epistolary correspondence; and conversations with many eminent persons ...

“A political place with no power, only influence, is not to my taste.”

Political Politics Power Influence Taste

Author:Ellen Swallow Richards

“If you had the seeds of pestilence in your body you would not have a more active contagion that you have in your tempers, tastes, and principles. Simply to be in this world, whatever you are, is to exert an influence, compared with which mere language and persuasion are feeble.”

Ifs World Body Language Principles Influence This World Taste Mere Active Seeds Your Body Temper Persuasion Contagion Pestilence

Book:Unconscious Influence; a sermon, etc

Source: Unconscious Influence; a sermon, etc

“The danger, then, is that materialism is not only shaping how we live but the way we think as well. It influences our consumer tastes and our preference for high-paying jobs, but it also alters our capacity to pray, the nature of our prayers, and the ways in which religious tutelage instructs our values.”

Thinking Way Wells Jobs Values Religious Prayer Influence Danger Praying Taste Capacity Consumers Materialism Consumerism Preference Our Prayers Overconsumption Tutelage

Author:Robert Wuthnow

“What we say has such a profound influence upon what we see, and hear, and taste of the world!”

World Influence Taste Profound

Author:David Abram

“My mother's influence in molding my character was conspicuous. She forced me to learn daily long chapters of the Bible by heart. To that discipline and patient, accurate resolve I owe not only much of my general power of taking pains, but of the best part of my taste for literature.”

Heart Long Character Pain Mother Literature Influence Discipline Taste Patient Resolve Accurate Chapters Molding

Author:John Ruskin

“Later after college I discovered Gang of Four, Buzzcocks, and those kind of bands. My tastes have changed but I still carry a lot of the influences from my youth.”

Kind Stills Four Influence Changed Youth College Taste Band Gang

Author:Page Hamilton

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