Quotes About Influence

English fiction was something I loved growing up, and it changed my life - it changed the trajectory of my life.

What people are perceiving will dictate what their life and ultimately what your interaction is.

There is nothing more influential in a child's life than the moral power of quiet example. For children to take morality seriously they must see adults take morality seriously.

No art can conquer the people alone-the people are conquered by an ideal of life upheld by authority.

My father was very musical, and music plays quite a large part in my life.

The whole Disney thing is really interesting, in a way, how that's so permeated life and the world and the planet.

I first saw Dead Man in high school, and it changed everything. That movie was like a memory to me - I would get things that occurred in that movie confused with my actual life.

That's where I take all my inspiration from is my own life and experiences, things I enjoy and am a fan of.

This [the earthquake] was a very big influence on me, and the issue of life and death from then on does recur in my films.

The only reason I got into stand-up was because my brother told me to. I had no idea what I was going to do with my life. I was 17 and my brother went to a comedy club and he said - you can do that.

In every aspect of the religious life, American faith has met American culture--and American culture has triumphed.

In every life there is one particular event that is decisive for the entire person-for his fate, his convictions, his passions.

My mother's the most special person in my life ... I consider her my MVP: Most Valuable Parent.

Money is, with propriety, considered as the vital principle of the body politic; as that which sustains its life and motion, and enables it to perform its most essential functions.

Throughout my life, there are four people I've met who were truly original people. The other three were Groucho Marx, Jim Morrison and Pablo Picasso.

If only someone had told me about the confidence-boosting nature of guns, I'd have been shooting them all my life.

A friendship formed in childhood, in youth,--by happy accident at any stage of rising manhood,--becomes the genius that rules the rest of life.

I don't know anyone who is a writer who isn't influenced by the relationships in their life.

People talk about 'lives of significance'-as if there's an alternative. If you're not leading a life of significance, you're not living.

Every life I start with her, my original sin. I know myself through her.

Politics was sort of a way of life in our family.

Updike and Bellow and Roth were my three favorite writers when I was young and throughout my life.

Wow, so much of the way I've transacted my life... so much of the results that I'm happy about are because of what Daddy did.

It is very hard to trace the effect of words on a life.