Quotes About Influence

Although your father and mother are dead, if you propose to yourself any good work, only reflect how it will make their names illustrious, and your purpose will be fixed.

Whatever there is of God and goodness in the universe, it must work itself out and express itself through us. We cannot stand aside and let God do it.

If there's anything that I've always said about myself is that to me, it's much more important for me to get to work with filmmakers that I've grown up loving and admiring.

The work of Henry James has always seemed divisible by a simple dynastic arrangement into three reigns: James I, James II, and the Old Pretender

All cultural explorers. . . start off from specific roots which color their vision and define the allegiances of the work of art they produce.

Swimming gave me my start, but my pal Tarzan did the real work. He set me up nicely.

We'll surely stop the work of all western Christian and eastern religions, and also Islam.

In every story I have heard, good teachers share one trait: a strong sense of personal identity infuses their work.

How do you do original work when culture is telling you which font face to use, which layout.

My mother taught me what it is to have a sense of humour; my dad, who was a headmaster, everything you need to know about hard work. My dad is the most decent man you could come across.

If you're fortunate enough with your history, like with Men in the Cities, your work becomes so absorbed in culture that the authorship of it doesn't exist anymore.

Honestly, I don't read newspapers, magazines, whatever. They're just not part of my lexicon. I don't want to be manipulated, or manipulated about other people's work.

I made nepotism an art form, so I get to work with a lot of relatives and they're part of it.

Seeing other people do great work is its own form of inspiration and far more powerful than borrowing their ideas.

The great men of music close periods; they do not inaugurate them. The pioneer work, the finding of new paths, is left to smaller men.

Yes, actually ever since I saw his films and tried to write about them, Sirk's been in everything I've done. Not Sirk himself, but what I've learned from his work.

Theater will never, and never has, gotten audiences like film. But theater goes to work on society in a different and more subversive way.

The problem with smear campaigns is that too often they work.

If it ever lay in my power, I will work the Cardinal as much displeasure as he has done to me.

If I die in Atlanta my work shall then only begin, but I shall live, in the physical or spiritual to see the day of Africa's glory.

It seems like there are always gatekeepers. People between you and the people who are moved by your work. They often make a beautiful thing creepy.

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.

The more excited and committed you are to your work, the more excited and committed will be the people around you. The leader always sets the tone for the department or organization.

I was and still am a massive fan of [Murphy] Cillian's work - always have been. Obviously he's a great deal older than me, so I've sort of grew up watching Cillian's work. But I'm very much a fan.