Quotes About Influence

I always loved Alan Menken songs and wanted my first album to be a tribute to him and his work. I always loved his music.

Putin knows how to run the KGB playbook. I mean, he knows how to work people.

I'm inspired by the work of those (and sometimes even the people themselves) who strive to inspire.

I'm a big fan of Tom Stoppard's work, and have been since I was in school where I studied him.

I've never seen an effective boycott that didn't work.

In science, moreover, the work of the individual is so bound up with that of his scientific predecessors and contemporaries that it appears almost as an impersonal product of his generation.

James Clerk Maxwell's [work is the] most profound and the most fruitful.

Certainly when you do a work for a public space, you lose control.

I feel more influenced in my own work by dreams than I do by other writers' works in a way. Or by popular culture, movies - what else is there to write about than love and loss?

Some of the greatest artists did their best work when they got political.

A man is known by the company he organizes.

Education may work wonders as well in warping the genius of individuals as in seconding it.

My attitude towards money is because of my mum and dad. My parents have always worked full time and I've always had that work ethic in me.

If someone knows me and likes me or my work, they're more likely to allow me to tell their story. But it also cuts the other way.

I am a visible person. I'm visible and I'm controversial. I don't mind if you crave the limelight - but make it work for you!

As I go about my work as Premier, I know I stand on the shoulders of giants.

My job in my work is not to acquire power; it's to question power.

You want to do work that is remembered, you want to be a part of something that's remembered.

If I had never touched Holmes, who has tended to obscure my higher work, my position in literature would at the present moment be a more commanding one.

People everywhere look to the United States to use its remarkable power to help lift humanity up and to work for the common good.

If anything I think postmodernism has the least impact on my work.

My work is mostly influenced by the concrete circumstances of our daily lives.

To the extent that we live in a postmodern world and it shapes the concrete circumstances of our daily lives, I would say postmodernism affects my work or influences my work.

I'd never seen [Haughton] Forrest's work before until I came across it on the front of an ANZ book. I then researched a whole lot of his work.