Influence Quotes - Page 6

• It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference.

  Tom Brokaw

  Inspirational, Appreciation, Motivation

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I felt Joyce was an influence on my fiction, but in a very general way, as a kind of inspiration and a model for the beauty of language.

  Don DeLillo

  Inspiration, Fiction, Way

  "Q&A: Don DeLillo / It's not as easy as it looks / DeLillo talks about writing plays, watching sports and movies, and defining love and death". Interview with John Freeman, www.sfgate.com. March 5, 2006.

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• I don't think that I'm over his influence but they probably don't look like Picassos; Picasso himself would probably have thrown up looking at my pictures.

  Roy Lichtenstein

  Thinking, Looks, Thrown

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Controls them and subdues, transmutes, bereaves Of their bad influence, and their good receives.

  William Wordsworth

  William Wordsworth (1849). “The Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.371

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• Ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize.

  John Milton

  Rain, Eye, Judging

  'L'Allegro' (1645) l. 121

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• Picasso's always been such a huge influence that I thought when I started the cartoon paintings that I was getting away from Picasso, and even my cartoons of Picasso were done almost to rid myself of his influence.

  Roy Lichtenstein

  Cartoon, Done, Painting

  Roy Lichtenstein, David Sylvester, Galerie Lawrence Rubin (1997). “Roy Lichtenstein: new paintings”

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• My main influences have always been the classic jazz players who sang, like Louis Armstrong and Nat King Cole and Jack Teagarden.

  Mose Allison

  Kings, Player, Jazz

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• My Dad died during the flu epidemic in 1918 when I was 4 years old. He left a lot of classical recordings behind that I began listening to at an early age, so he must have been a music lover.

  Tom Glazer

  Dad, Epidemics, Years

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• Influencing people is dangerous. Their acts and thoughts become your illegitimate children. You can't get away from them and Heaven knows what they mayn't grow up into.

  Elizabeth Bibesco

  Children, Growing Up, People

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• Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children.

  Billy Graham

  Christian, Mom, Mother

  FaceBook post by Billy Graham from May 08, 2014

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• Be selective about your external influences. Your multi-dimensional brain is influenced by everything you see, hear, read, smell, touch, feel or say.

  Brian Tracy

  Smell, Brain, Feels

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• Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Funny, Sarcastic

  Quoted in More Maxims of Mark, ed. Merle Johnson (1927)

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• The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Family, Best Effort

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• People exercise an unconscious selection in being influenced.

  T. S. Eliot

  Exercise, People, Unconscious

  T.S. Eliot (1950). “Selected Essays”

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• Originality thrives in seclusion free of outside influences

  Nikola Tesla

  Solitude, Originality, Intriguing

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• It would be difficult to exaggerate the degree to which we are influenced by those we influence.

  Eric Hoffer

  Degrees, Would Be, Literature

  Eric Hoffer (1969). “Working and Thinking on the Waterfront: A Journal, June 1958-May 1959”

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• You can pay for school, but you can't buy class

  Jay-Z

  School, Class, Inspire

  Song: Swagga Like Us

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• It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people's lives.

  Clint Eastwood

  Influence And Power, Discipline, People

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• Isn't it wonderful how dogs can win friends and influence people without ever reading a book.

  Charles E. McKenzie

  Friendship, Dog, Reading

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• The way we metabolize our experience of time influences our biological clock.

  Deepak Chopra

  Time, Way, Clock

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• Do not seek so anxiously to be developed, to subject yourself to many influences to be played on; it is all dissipation. Humility like darkness reveals the heavenly lights.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Humility, Light, Darkness

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.212, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Our liberty depends on our education, our laws, and habits . . . it is founded on morals and religion, whose authority reigns in the heart, and on the influence all these produce on public opinion before that opinion governs rulers.

  Fisher Ames

  Heart, Law, Liberty

  Fisher Ames (1835). “The influences of democracy on liberty, property, and the happiness of society, considered”, p.138

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• Do not Christians and Heathens, and Jews and Gentiles, and poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences?

  Walter Scott

  Christian, Astrology, Philosopher

  "Guy Mannering".

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• No reproof or denunciation is so potent as the silent influence of a good example.

  Hosea Ballou

  Example, Silent, Reproof

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• The most influential books, and the truest in their influence, are works of fiction. They repeat, they re-arrange, they clarify the lessons of life; they disengage us from ourselves, they constrain us to the acquaintance of others; and they show us the web of experience, but with a singular change-that monstrous, consuming ego of ours being, nonce, struck out.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Life Lesson, Book, Writing

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2016). “Essays in the Art of Writing(illustrated)”, p.25, Full Moon Publications

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