“Eminem has talent, and his talent is the thing that influences many young people who would have never gone anywhere near rap. White kids in different parts of the world use him as a barometer and the standard to live up to. In some ways, Eminem is an artist who has ushered in a new movement.” PeopleWorldWayDifferentUseKidsYoungArtistWhiteGoneInfluenceTalentMovementStandardsRapBarometer Author:Chuck D
“I wouldn't call myself a woman in bluegrass. I haven't really been a part of the world for a while. It's just been a big influence on who I am today.” WorldBigsTodayInfluenceHavensWho I AmBluegrass Author:Sara Watkins
“My ability to adapt has always stood out. I've been immersed in many worlds and have had the influence of many things in my upbringing so I'm familiar with so many styles of living, so many characters, so many life paths and its just easy to simulate for me.” WorldCharacterEasyAbilityPathInfluenceStyleFamiliarUpbringingLife PathSimulateAbility To Adapt Author:Aeriel Miranda
“If you look in the Muslim World right now, the Shia, the Sunni Muslims are standing at the brink of a pit of fire started by Western intervention and influence in pitting them against each other by exploiting their divisions. So the stage is set for war in that area of the world that would destroy that area as completely as what they are calling the failed state Libya making Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq failed states.” IfsWorldLooksWarStatesFireInfluenceStageCallingRight NowAreasStandingWesternIraqDivisionAfghanistanSyriaInterventionPitsLibyaMuslim WorldShia Author:Louis Farrakhan
“My influences are jazz, blues, European classical music; they are rock music and pop music. So many kinds of music. World music from different countries like India and China. I think that would be a shame not to take advantage and do something... not unique, because I don't have this pretension.” ThinkingWorldKindDifferentCountryWould BeInfluenceRocksUniqueAdvantageIndiaShameJazzChinaPopsClassical MusicPop MusicRock MusicPretensionDifferent CountriesWorld Music Author:Rokia Traore
“The great danger of the media is that it gives us a very perverted view of the world. Because the focus and the repetition of messaging is on the negative, that’s what our minds start believing. This warped and narrow view of what’s not working has a severe influence on your creative potential. It can be crippling.” WorldGivingMindBelieveViewsCreativeFocusInfluenceMediaDangerNegativeSevereRepetition Author:Darren Hardy
“You never want to be forced to do something. But the world around you starts to influence you in ways you never expected.” WorldWayWantInfluenceExpected Author:Daniel Radcliffe
“I grew up in the church, with traditional hymns, but at the same time I was beginning to listen to pop music, the mid-60s, The Beatles, which had just as much influence on me as those hymns did. Then the hippy stuff like Pink Floyd started to raise questions about how I lived my life and the world in which I lived.” WorldStuffChurchInfluenceGrewGrew UpRaisesPopsTraditionalPop MusicHymnsRaises Questions Author:Alan Green
“An EU without Britain, without 1 of Europe's strongest powers, a country which in many ways invented the single market, and which brings real heft to Europe's influence on the world stage which plays by the rules and which is a force for liberal economic reform would be a very different kind of European Union.” WorldWayKindDifferentRealCountryPlayWould BeForceInfluenceEconomicStageEuropeUnionsReformBritainStrongestDifferent KindsEuropean UnionEconomic Reforms Author:David Cameron
“Right, we've got these institutions of media, these financial institutions, we have the means of distribution, we have the means of production, we have all these markets and maxims in place. How do we alter the consciousness, the fundamental unifying field? How do we influence change on that level to all of the world?” WorldMeanLevelsConsciousnessInfluenceMediaFieldsInstitutionsFundamentalsFinancialProductionsDistributionMaximsUnifyingFinancial Institutions Author:Russell Brand
“Why do people like America? They say, well, you have the largest military in the world. Because you have more people, et cetera. They like America for what we stand for. And one of the things, and I feel proud to be, what this president's for, the last seven years, is we have once again aligned our basic fundamental beliefs and principles with our conduct. And it matters. It matters in terms of our security. It matters in terms of our ability to influence the world. It matters in our ability to succeed.” PeopleWorldFeelsYearsWellsMatterLastsAmericaBeliefPresidentTermAbilityPrinciplesInfluenceSecurityMilitaryProudSucceedFundamentalsSevenSeven YearsAbility To Succeed Author:Joe Biden
“[Sherlock Holmes] has to understand the world. That's very much John's [Watson] influence on him. But like a lot of the friendships and relationships in that world, it's born out of necessity. It makes him better. There's a pragmatism to it. It's not whimsical or sentimental. It's born out of necessity.” WorldBornInfluenceSentimentalHolmesWatsonPragmatismWhimsicalFriendships And Relationships Author:Benedict Cumberbatch
“But it is the best thing that we have for bringing the countries of Europe around the same table and for forging compromises so that people here can live in peace, freedom and prosperity. In a world which is growing closer together all the time, we can only survive and influence the rules if we join forces. We will miss the presence of the United Kingdom at this table.” PeopleIfsWorldCountryTogetherForceUnitedGrowingInfluenceMissingEuropeTablesProsperityKingdomsCompromiseBest ThingsUnited KingdomForging Author:Jean-Claude Juncker
“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.” WorldTodayAmericaStrongSituationLeaderDoubtInfluenceEconomicMilitaryMajorsNo DoubtMilitary LeaderWorld Power Author:Vladimir Putin
“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.” ThinkingWorldWantKindLittlesChristianCultureBitsSoundChurchInfluenceLittle BitAgreeRadioSurroundBubblesLike SomethingRefreshingNashville Author:Dominic Balli
“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.” MenWorldMindIdeasTodayEarthOrderImaginationKnownInfluenceInspireStonesLaysPhilosopherSubstanceFacultyChemistryFinestMiraculous 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.” WorldDifferentFactsInfluenceTheoryPerspectiveDegreesPerceptionExpectationsNotionCastsAriseColourDifferent PerspectiveOld Picture Author:Niles Eldredge
“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.” ThinkingWorldTryingMatterProblemPresidentInfluenceClimateSignificantTrajectory Author:Chris Mooney
“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.” WorldLooksMeanForceInfluenceTrumpConnectionsClintonAround The WorldEngagingSmall Changes Author:Jill Stein
“I sincerely hope that whatever influence the United States has in Pakistan, it will convince Pakistan that using terrorism as an instrument of state policy has no place in the world that we want to build.” WorldWantStatesUnitedUnited StatesInfluencePolicyInstrumentsTerrorismConvincePakistanSincerelyPlaces In The World Author:Manmohan Singh
“The American journalist Barbara Ehrenreich has written about this in her book Smile or Die: How Positive Thinking Fooled America and the World (2009) . She talks about the happiness industry, the rise of medication to make us happy and of self-help books, and the influence of all this on religion. In many ways religion has become another form of self-help. We all suffer from over-exposure to positive thinking.” ThinkingWorldWayBookSelfHelpingAmericaFormSufferingDiesWrittenInfluenceSelf HelpPositive ThinkingIndustryJournalistExposureFooledMedicationBarbaraSelf Help BooksHelp Book Author:Mark Ravenhill
“To the extent that we live in a postmodern world and it shapes the concrete circumstances of our daily lives, I would say postmodernism affects my work or influences my work.” WorldInfluenceCircumstancesShapesDaily LifeConcretePostmodernismPostmodern Author:Bell Hooks
“You know in fairness Gary [Johnson] and I have not agreed on a number of substantive issues in this campaign, tax policy, we've had some influence on each other, I think I've had some influence on him, on constructive engagement around the world, he's had some influence on me in criminal justice reform issues.” ThinkingKnowsWorldJusticeNumbersIssuesInfluencePolicyTaxesCriminalsCampaignsAround The WorldReformEngagementFairnessConstructiveJohnsonCriminal JusticeGary Author:William Weld
“If one admits that the influence of the outside world is essentially beneficial, the lack of such influence during sleep would tend to diminish the value of our dream activity so as to render it inferior to the mental activity that takes place when we are awake, when we are exposed to these beneficial influences of surrounding reality. But how can one say that the influence of reality is exclusively beneficial. Could it not also be damaging, and could its absence not give access to qualities superior to those that we have when awake?” IfsWorldGivingDreamRealityValuesSleepQualityInfluenceActivityAbsenceAccessSuperiorsAwakeExposedInferiorsDiminishOur DreamsBeneficialOutside World Author:Erich Fromm
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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