Quotes About Influence

The things that concern us during the day are going to influence what we experience during the night.

Who knows what would have become of me, if my parents had not had their influence on me.

House was the first film where I had no influence on the script. I had to buy the script with the game rights.

Whatever I'm reading at the moment seems to influence whatever I'm writing.

I've always been the first to admit that Jimi was a very big influence on my early stuff.

Influence, people think about it as someone you like but influence is also what you're revolted by. In fact, often it's what you're running away from.

Doolittle was a major influence on the Seattle grunge scene, which emerged in the early 1990s.

I've been asked a great deal about the influence I've had with my work and it's impossible to say, you know.

There was a writer in the '20s called Christopher Morley, who I remember a little bit of, who had some influence on me, but I couldn't tell you what it was.

I could start with Mandelstam, who was a huge influence on my early writing.

Well I had my kids so young that I kind of feel that I'm a kid too and am growing up with them. The things they're interested in tend to really influence me.

And very often the influence exerted on a person's character by the amount of his income is hardly less, if it is less, than that exerted by the way in which it is earned.

Now that I'm a political pundit, I have the ability to influence people.

I've always said to people that auteurism is nice, but it's hypothetical, and gradually you learn how much or how little influence different directors had.

Tori Amos had a major influence on how I craft words in a song.

I don't see myself as being as big of an influence as other people seem to think.

In a much larger sense, the problem of Sabah is directly influenced by the duplicity of imperial Britain. For whatever devious reason, the dismantling of the British empire created divisions and violence due to ethnic and religious differences.

I've always had gender confusion. I had two older brothers, and I've been predominantly male influenced. I really always looked up to my dad, really always looked up to my brothers... I had a lot of male friends growing up. It didn't help that in my town, where I lived, there were no female musicians.

I don't listen to film music at all. I don't want to be influenced.

If I've influenced people, so be it, but I don't dwell on those kinds of things. I just put out my music. If I influence someone without knowing it, I'm happy about it. I try not to think about those things because it's not about me.

Anybody is influenced by where and how he lives.

Growing up in any big city, you get exposed to so many beautiful cultures. I've grown up with a lot of open eyes around me that's influenced my eyes to open.

I know I was influenced by Beatrice Lillie. I must have been.

I'm not as careful as I look, which is why I choose not to do social media. It's really because I don't trust myself. I'm also very easily influenced by my feelings and will impulsively act on my emotions, which is another reason why I don't do social media.