Quotes About Influence

The past can influence the future. When you finish one chapter, you open another, which will be influenced by what you've just lived through.

I was not influenced by any artists.

The big battle at the end of DW isn't drawn from history, but it's influenced by history, certainly.

It was the part of Gambian culture where they give each other advice a lot, how they're always comparing things in order to get a message across... that really influenced the way I write.

Lily Tomlin was one of the early comedy greats who influenced my courage to be the person I am.

I was kind of influenced by the hip-hop culture.

I'm very influenced by the circus. A lot of the dreams that I have, I'm in the circus.

Asian music influenced Debussy, who influenced me - it's all a huge circle.

My parents were born in 1906 and 1907. I think the experience of the Depression greatly influenced the way they thought about the world.

I used to watch my mother cooking when I was a child; she influenced me a lot.

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

Of course, I have been influenced by my Punjabi and Hariyanvi roots.

Is it experimental to have been influenced by the Bible? By Saint Augustine?

Generally, my writing is influenced by living, by absorbing everything that happens to me and my actions.

I'm a writer who likes to be influenced.

Without the connotation good or bad, bin Laden's a great man in the sense that he's influenced the course of history.

It's definitely an influence, I mean how can you not say you are influenced to play rock.

I was much influenced by Jean-Paul Sartre.

When I was 18 I went to college for two years and didn't work for a year which was essential for me, because my identity had been so influenced by my being an actor and I think I just needed to discover what it was to be myself, divorced from all that responsibility.

How far the existence of the Academy has influenced French literature, either for good or for evil, is an extremely dubious question.

Even the contemporary horror authors who have seriously influenced me are a disparate bunch.

I'm constantly being influenced by the soul that's directly in front of me.

Billions of people have seen and been influenced by movies in the short history of this industry.

The crowd may be influenced easily, largely because it is a crowd.