Quotes About Influence

It's so easy for propaganda to work, and dissent to be mocked.

What do you say when someone has truly inspired you? How do you express to an artist how deeply their work has affected you?

I really want to work on a record of mine and I'm just getting inspiration from different sources like one of my favourite bands, Led Zeppelin, and Radiohead.

The true value of a leader is not measured by the work they do. A leader's true value is measured by the work they inspire others to do.

The Artist always has the masters in his eyes.

I did not steal other people's work! I may have appropriated some styles, but I did not steal. My work is full... of homages to everyone in my medium - not theft!

The real influence on my work was reality, that of my country and Latin America in general.

As a woman I have felt encouraged and fed by and nurtured by the work of [Jack] Kerouac and others.

The older I become the more I realize of that I have to work very hard to reproduce what I search: the instantaneous. The influence of the atmosphere on the things and the light scattered throughout.

I hope people are reading my work in the future. I hope I have done more than frightened a couple of generations. I hope I've inspired a few people one way or another.

It seems to me that responsiveness is a better source for understanding what moral claims are and how they work upon us.

I've been inspired by people's work, but I never grew up with posters on my bedroom wall or obsessed with one person.

In poor countries, officials receive explicit bribes; in D.C. they get the sophisticated, implicit, unspoken promise to work for large corporations

When you work with great musicians, they are always a part of you . . . their spirits are walking around in me, so they're still here and passing it on to others.

If science has no country, the scientist should have one, and ascribe to it the influence which his works may have in this world.

I'm not in control of my muse. My muse does all the work.

The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.

Most creative work is a process of people passing ideas and inspirations from the past into the future and adding their own creativity along the way.

It is impossible to think of a man of any actual force and originality, universally recognized as having those qualities, who spent his whole life appraising and describing the work of other men.

The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the advancement of his fortunes.

Even if your work touches one person, that's an amazing gift.

Inspiration doesn't really work like that - you're not looking out for it. Inspiration is something that tends to capture you rather than you capture it.

The key to power, then, is the ability to judge who is best able to further your interests in all situations. Keep friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent.

I feel very proud of the work from the '80s because it is very bright and colorful.