“When, about fifteen years ago, I walked into Arshile's studio for the first time, the atmosphere was so beautiful that I got a little dizzy and when I came to, I was bright enough to take the hint immediately. If the bookkeepers think it necessary to make sure of where things and people came from, well then, I came from 36 Union Square. I am glad that it is about impossible to get away from his powerful influence.” PeopleIfsThinkingYearsFirstsWellsLittlesEnoughBeautifulPowerfulImpossibleInfluenceFirst TimeYears AgoUnionsStudiosGladAtmosphereGet AwaySquaresFifteenHintsFifteen YearsDizzyBookkeepers Author:Willem de Kooning
“Fortunately, there are old terrors and powers that religion no longer can exercise so effectively as it did only a few score years ago. But the atmosphere and the attitude of bigotry remain. If religion cannot ordinarily invoke the armed force of law to punish heretics, it still plays upon the psychology of fear and predominantly its influence is to frighten men and distort their views and poison every process of their reasoning.” IfsMenYearsStillsPlayLawForceProcessViewsAttitudePsychologyAtheismInfluenceExerciseYears AgoTerrorAtmospherePoisonReasoningScoreBigotryHereticArmed ForcesInvoke Author:E. Haldeman-Julius
“I'm not inspired by songwriting at all; that took place years ago. I'm pretty well established, as far as my influences go. I don't listen to music anymore. It all sounds the same to me.” YearsWellsSoundInfluenceYears AgoInspiredSongwritingListening To Music Author:Mose Allison
“Yes, I am optimistic about the environment. If you assume business is exerting the most negative influence on the environment and also has the possibility to impact it positively, there are a bunch of forces that are impacting business that are fundamentally different from the situation 3 or 4 years ago.” IfsYearsDifferentForceBusinessSituationEnvironmentInfluencePossibilityNegativeYears AgoImpactAssumingBunchOptimisticPositivelyNegative Influence Author:Jeffrey Hollender
“Time can take nothing from the BIBLE. It is the living monitor. Like the sun, it is the same in its light and influence to man this day which it was years ago. It can meet every present inquiry and console every present loss” MenYearsLightLossSunInfluenceYears AgoThis DayInquiryConsole Author:Richard Cecil
“Sometime in the last 50,000 years, before 12,000 years ago, a kind of paradise came into existence. A situation in which men and women, parents and children, people and animals, human institutions and the land all were in dynamic balance and not in any primitive sense at all. Language was fully developed, poetry may have been at its climax, dance, magic, poetics, altruism, philosophy. There's no reason to think that these things were not practiced as adroitly as we practice them today and it was under the boundary dissolving influence of psilocybin.” PeopleThinkingMenYearsHumansKindMayChildrenHas BeensReasonPhilosophyTodayLastsLanguageParentAnimalExistenceSituationPracticeMagicInfluenceLandBalanceMen And WomenYears AgoInstitutionsBoundariesParadiseNo ReasonPrimitiveAltruismChildren And ParentsClimaxDissolvingPsilocybin Author:Terence McKenna
“I think East Asian countries, I think they're very fortunate to have Buddhism survive as a strong influence because right from the time when Buddha himself, 2,500 years ago, made the point about the importance of education, and the word "Buddha" also means enlighten[ed] or educated. So all the Buddhist countries, not only Japan and Korea and China and Hong Kong and Thailand but also even Burma and Sri Lanka, had a higher level of education.” ThinkingYearsMeanMadeCountryStrongLevelsInfluenceBuddhismHigherYears AgoImportanceChinaEastEducatedBuddhistFortunateJapanAsianKoreaEnlighteningHigher LevelHong KongThailandBurmaSri LankaImportance Of EducationAsian Countries Author:Amartya Sen
“A lot of people can have a lot of different influences, everyone can be compared in some way to someone whether they are from 60 years ago or more recent.” PeopleWayYearsDifferentInfluenceYears Ago Author:Leona Lewis