Quotes About Influence

Everybody we meet has an influence on us and an impact - good or bad. And I think that's why we have to be careful with the way we handle people because what we're doing is making an impact.

The romance of English football is fantastic, but it has lost its identity under the influence of other cultures.

American influence is not what it used to be.

Bowie's obviously my biggest influence.

My dad's the one who's always been there; he's my hero, you could say. Even when he was working, he'd do anything for me. He's been the biggest influence in my life.

I hope I work effectively, but I never feel I have exhausted what I should be doing... I believe we have a responsibility to be a good influence on others.

Until MTV, television had not been a huge influence on music. To compete with MTV, the country music moguls felt they had to appeal to the same young audience and do it the way MTV did.

I think the fact that I created something and had an enormous influence is indisputable.

Once you know the emotional building blocks of anxiety, you can influence them.

Green Day was more of the influence than Blink.

Anything you read can influence your work, so I try to read good stuff.

I mean I think that Blondie's influence is a little bit in a way more eclectic than those bands.

To be able to influence someone or to be able to have a group of guys come together to have a successful team and to be together all the time every day for, you know, a year and longer together, you have to have a - find a common ground. And that common ground for us is football.

It's not the money. It's not the fame. It's the influence.

I don't like to think about being an influence. It's embarrassing.

You don't want to influence the same system you are trying to forecast.

I read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me.

The more challenges you face in life, the more of life you experience - this lived experience gives one the 'influence' to impact others' lives.

Mantovani was a great influence on me.

The satiric ethos of Mad was a much bigger childhood influence.

The first time I really had an influence on a show was during 'Ragtime.' It's still the most magical show that I've ever done.

Many bad books have had great influence.

The Boy Scouts, of course, had an influence on me because I learned about service in the community.

My father was a huge influence on me.