Outside Influences Quotes

• The way glass can be molded or blown or cut into any kind of shape made me think about how we as people - our characters or souls - can be shaped or changed by outside influences.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Character, Cutting, Thinking

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• A genius is simply one who has taken full possession of his own mind and directed it toward objectives of his own choosing, without permitting outside influences to discourage or mislead him.

  Napoleon Hill

  Taken, Mind, Genius

  Napoleon Hill (1993). “Napoleon Hill's a Year of Growing Rich: 52 Steps to Achieving Life's Rewards”, p.4, Penguin

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• Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born.

  Nikola Tesla

  Inspirational, Being Alone, Ideas

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• Originality thrives in seclusion free of outside influences

  Nikola Tesla

  Solitude, Originality, Influence

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• The mind is sharper and keener in seclusion and uninterrupted solitude. Originality thrives in seclusion free of outside influences beating upon us to cripple the creative mind. Be alone-that is the secret of invention: be alone, that is when ideas are born.

  Nikola Tesla

  Loneliness, Being Alone, Creativity

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• You're much more likely to reach your goals if they're your goals, speaking to your desires, rather than the desires of outside influences. Goals that are meaningful to you will keep you inspired and driven towards success.

  Jillian Michaels

  Motivational, Meaningful, Goal

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• What kind of religion is it that would encourage the parent to shelter the child from any outside influences and punish it by putting it out in a world you never had any way of learning about?

  Michelle Shocked

  Children, Parent, World

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• Do you believe you're a starter or a benchwarmer? Do you believe you're an all-star or an also- ran? If the answers to these questions are the latter, your play on the field will reflect it. But when you've learned to shut off outside influences and believe in yourself, there's no telling how good a player you can be.

  Rod Carew

  Inspirational, Sports, Stars

  Rod Carew (1986). “Rod Carew's Art and Science of Hitting”, Viking Press

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• Bringing up teenagers is like sweeping back ocean waves with a frazzled broom-the inundation of outside influences never stops. Whatever the lure-cars, easy money, cigarettes, drugs, booze, sex, crime-much that glitters along the shore has a thousand times the appeal of a parent's lecture.

  Mary Ellen Snodgrass

  Sex, Teenager, Ocean

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• However diligent she may be, however dedicated, no mother can escape the larger influences of culture, biology, fate . . . until we can actually live in a society where mothers and children genuinely matter, ours is an essentially powerless responsibility. Mothers carry out most of the work orders, but most of the rules governing our lives are shaped by outside influences.

  Mary Blakely

  Mother, Children, Responsibility

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• I wish that I could write. I think that's a wonderful outlet for an artist. You are ultimately in control. Your fate is not determined by outside influences. You can write wherever you are. I don't think I have the talent.

  Mary Tyler Moore

  Writing, Fate, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I know a lot of people have very strong and definite plans that they've worked out on all kinds of things, but we're subject to a tremendous number of outside influences and the vast majority of them cannot be predicted. So my idea is to stay flexible. My only plan is to keep coming to work every day. I like to steer the boat each day rather than plan ahead way into the future.

  Henry Earl Singleton

  Strong, Ideas, Numbers

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• We have too much legislating by clamor, by tumult, by pressure. Representative government ceases when outside influence of any kind is substituted for the judgment of the representative.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Government, Too Much, Pressure

  Calvin Coolidge (2001). “The Price of Freedom: Speeches and Addresses”, p.406, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• I wasn't allowed to listen to a lot of music growing up. It wasn't until I started to make my gospel record when I was around 14 or 15 that I started to be exposed to more outside influences.

  Katy Perry

  Growing Up, Records, Influence

  Interview with Kristen Wiig, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 8, 2012.

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• It has become harder and harder in the United States to make films unhampered by outside influences. I've always been able to steer clear of that and keep the business people out of my hair completely.

  Woody Allen

  Hair, People, Able

  "Woody Allen Discusses "Match Point"". Interview with Cole Smithey, www.colesmithey.com. December 20, 2005.

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• Neuroplasticity contributes to both the constrained and unconstrained aspects of our nature. It renders our brains not only more resourceful, but also more vulnerable to outside influences.

  Norman Doidge

  Brain, Neuroplasticity, Influence

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• We hope and we've made clear that the forces need to come out. It needs to be full and complete withdrawal. Our position is it needs to be done as soon as possible so that the elections can be free, fair and free of outside influence.

  Stephen Hadley

  Needs, Withdrawal, Done

  "FOX News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. March 14, 2005.

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• Whether you are on the Right or the Left, everyone can agree that there are a lot of outside influences in American politics that are not good for the system. There's just too much money.

  Zach Galifianakis

  Too Much, Influence, Agree

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• I spent a lot of my childhood in my own head, making up stories. I didn't have a lot of outside influences, so I was able to make my own decisions about what I wanted to do.

  Dido Armstrong

  Childhood, Decision, Stories

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• As a new artist there's always outside influences trying to tell you how to make a song better for radio and how to do your hair.

  Josh Groban

  Song, Artist, Hair

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• [Research] suggests that what we think of as free will is largely an illusion: much of the time, we are simply operating on automatic pilot, and the way we think and act – and how well we think and act on the spur of the moment – are a lot more susceptible to outside influences than we realize.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Thinking, Spurs, Research

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