Quotes About Influence

When I'm dead I wanna leave a body of work, like authors or great painters do.

In my old age, my mind gets more open, and I listen to so many different types of music and I guess that all reflects in my work.

Hopefully women can work with [Ivanka Trump ] to influence up the chain of command. I think it's good for us, for women. It's a glimmer of hope.

My dad is good at sticking with stuff and he has a strong work ethic, which is imbued in me. Growing up, he would constantly ask what I was doing and was I achieving anything.

If we are to believe or accept that buildings are cultural markers, if architects work in a vacuum with their own preconceptions about society, then we won't be creating appropriate cultural markers.

Public commentary absolutely influences my work.

Most influential of all is the philosopher Stanley Cavell, and a younger generation of philosophers who have attempted to follow his pioneering work in thinking about literature philosophically.

I would never not work on the part without it playing. That's what being an actor is. You use everything that's influenced you to help you get out of yourself or be more creative.

An artist's work is a synthesis of much more than the work of other creators.

Artists should be self-aware of their work and their potential places in people's lives and make their decisions accordingly.

What I have learned in my life and work is that the more I am able to be myself, the more it enables other people to be themselves.

I come from a very warm island, where colors are very important, very vibrant, and obviously the color has been an influence on my work.

Also, there are authors and publicists using the Internet to manipulate opinion, both positively for a work and negatively against the competition. I don't do this and can't stomach it, honestly.

When Lord Kelvin was in this country [U.S.], he said that nothing interested him so much as Mr. Hewitt's work and his vacuum lamp.

I hope that my work makes a difference because I think that's why I do it.

I put a spell on people so they don't know they're working out... An enchanting spell, where they just don't think about it, or over think it, and then at the end they go, 'Wow, I feel good.'

It takes two things to make a political lie work: a powerful person or institution willing to utter it, and another set of powerful institutions to amplify it.

I don't want to be the president of the United States. I do want to work with the governors across the country to make the states more pivotal, more powerful, as they should be.

God is at work in the world, and He wants you to join Him....You are the only Christian some people will ever know.

I really want to work with Rufus Wainwright. Michael Stipe from R.E.M. I would love to work with Kanye West.

Agnes Martin is a big influence in my work actually, when I first saw her, these fine grids.

I've always said my biggest influence is my, just, the last work I did, the last piece I made.

I'm always looking for relations between my work and the old masters.

If you miss someone too much you turn into them... though it doesn't seem to work for the Christian Church.