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Quotes About Influence

I know right now she has no idea who I am, but I'd like to collaborate with Enya one day. Of course I'd love to work with Jay-Z, maybe even Phil Collins. I love his voice.
~ Nicki Minaj
Kenneth Hari's art work shall influence mankind.
~ Pablo Casals
My father knew all about this stuff [C.W. Leadbeater]. I owe a lot of what I'm doing, I think, to him. I'm sort of continuing my father's work.
~ Paul Laffoley
One of the great movements in my lifetime among educated people is the need to commit themselves to action. Most people are not satisfied with giving money; we also feel we need to work.
~ Peter Drucker
In new work, we need to see the shadow, however faint, of previous literary effort.
~ Phillip Lopate
I have always admired the work of Phil Farmer and was glad for the chance to work with him. Readers today may be too young to remember his classics like The Lovers.
~ Piers Anthony
My work is more driven by the creative word. It's immersed in other writing and printed work, rather than drawn so much from life or past experience.
~ Raymond Pettibon
I really don't see any influence of my work on any artists. But I do think I've had an influence on drawings' being shown. I've had an influence on the economics of it.
~ Raymond Pettibon
We are a social animal, power only exists in a social sense, we have to work in groups.
~ Robert Greene
People without leverage work for those with leverage.
~ Robert Kiyosaki
Money is multiplied in practical value depending on the number of W's you control in your life: what you do, when you do it, where you do it, and with whom you do it.
~ Tim Ferriss
WORK ON YOUR STORY! He/she who has the best story wins! In life! In business! The White House!
~ Tom Peters
I think some people would love to be able to make the clothes I make - and of course, I do influence them, but they keep simplifying, and minimalism doesn't quite work
~ Vivienne Westwood
So, it's nice to know that you've inspired someone to do their life's work.
~ Wanda Jackson
A work of art is great to the extent that to encounter it is to be changed.
~ Wendy Beckett
Truth in our ideas means their power to work.
~ William James
I like to think that I represent myself as a strong woman, so to work with other strong women I find very inspiring.
~ Annabelle Wallis
In a country like India, the British were only able to rule the country because it had completely co-opted the elite of the country, who did their work for them.
~ Arundhati Roy
In terms of being a role model, I didn't start out to be one. I don't go to work every day with that in mind. But, I do get a lot of fan mail from young girls.
~ Victoria Pratt
When someone between twenty and forty says, apropos of a work of art, 'I know what I like,' he is really saying 'I have no taste of my own but accept the taste of my cultural milieu.
~ W. H. Auden
Policy is the people you work with.
~ Unknown
I don't think they [contemporary writers] read me either. I mean, if we're concerned genuinely with writing, I think we probably get on with our work.
~ William Golding
He is the greatest influence in the world today. There is... a fifth Gospel being written - the work of Jesus Christ in the hearts and lives of men and nations.
~ William Griffith Thomas
What began the change was the very writing itself. Let no one lightly set about such a work. Memory, once waked, will play the tyrant.
~ C. S. Lewis