Quotes About Influence

The best part about being in the 'showbiz' industry is that you can voice your opinion.

In my opinion, Lenny Bruce was more of an influence on Zappa's satirical lyric's than anyone that I know of.

How success changes the opinion of men!

I grew up in kind of the last generation of Canadians who thought things that were happening in Britain were more important, almost, than what was happening in Canada. And my mother was fervently of that opinion.

You don't have to be captain to have an opinion.

My friends are very opinionated about the people I date.

Conscience is, in most men, an anticipation of the opinions of others.

Money has no moral opinions.

I'm a sheep when it comes to opinions; I will change my mind and jump on the bandwagon.

One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.

I think that whether we acknowledge it or not, our opinions as authors always influence our work. How can they not?

Women treat us [men] like humanity treats gods—they worship us and keep bothering us to do something for them.

I was dominated, soul, brain, and power by you. You became to me the visible incarnation of that unseen ideal whose memory haunts us artists like an exquisite dream.

Even men of the noblest possible moral character are extremely susceptible to the influence of the physical charms of others. Modern, no less then Ancient History, supplies us with many most painful examples of what I refer to. If it were not so, indeed, History would be quite unreadable.

Every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character.

As for being poisoned by a book, there is no such thing as that. Art has no influence upon action. It annihilates the desire to act. It is superbly sterile. The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

There are three kinds of despots. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the body. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul and body alike. The first is called the Prince. The second is called the Pope. The third is called the People.

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it

Things are because we see them, and what we see, and how we see it, depends on the Arts that have influenced us.

To influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with his natural passions. His virtues are not real to him. His sins, if there are such things as sins, are borrowed. He becomes an echo of someone else's music, an actor of a part that has not been written for him.

Art has no influence upon action. It annihilates the desire to act. It is superbly sterile. The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

The pen is mightier than the paving-stone

Jemanden zu beeinflussen bedeutet, ihm eine fremde Seele zu geben.