Quotes About Influence

None of my own experiences ever finds its way into my work. However, the stages of my life - motherhood, middle age, etc. - often influence my subject matter.

The work of volunteers impacts on all our lives, even if we are not aware of it.

All you leave the world is what you've done. No one will ever know the conditions, the comments, the pressures. Only the work remains.

Marlon Brando. The finest actor who ever lived. He was my idol when I was 13. He's done enough work to last two lifetimes. Everything I do, I think: Can Brando play this with me?

When I was a child, I had posters of James Dean in my room. I was a big admirer of his work and was fascinated by him living on the edge. Looking back, my life was kind of the same.

Success doesn't happen in a vacuum. You're only as good as the people you work with and the people you work for.

No artist work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character is a child.

A reluctant leader is highly suspicious of people who work to accumulate and hoard power.

It's hard for me to show work while I'm writing, because other people's comments will influence what happens.

My coach was a great politician, so he did most of the work. He was good.

Mexico has lost an icon whose work has transcended generations and borders.

I think that the very earliest influence was a horror of having to work in a bank or an office, a desire for a free and creative life.

It is my fervent wish and my greatest ambition to leave a work with a few useful instructions for the pianists after me.

Spreading an idea is hard work.

Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a movable body.

The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate men.

I don't look at the work of my contemporaries very much; I tend to look at pictures by dead artists. It's much easier to get near their paintings.

My sense is, I think it's okay for directors to do movies that speak to other work in their career.

Each of us can work to change a small portion of events. And it's in the total of all those acts that the history of this generation will be written.

We discovered how much money influences certain things work in United States. How things might seem okay on the outside, but internally, they're corrupt.

One wants one's work to be the world, but of course it's never the world. The work is in the world; it never contains the whole thing.

People are always talking about originality, but what do they mean? As soon as we are born, the world begins to work upon us, and this goes on to the end.

Poe was a student of many things, and among those things he read and referred to in his work was the Bible.

Stereotypes should never influence policy or public opinion.