Quotes About Influence

I'm incredibly close to my family. I have two younger brothers; they're both artists and actors, and their work and the way they see the world inspires me.

Secrecy doesn't attach to particular parties; it attaches to power. All of the bull work is in place for whomever succeeds. That's my concern.

I never consciously do any work directly influenced from any movie, unless I'm doing a parody.

Everyone's different, but it was fun for me to work with Garth Hudson. He's from 'The Band.' They are a massive influence, that was a big thrill. He's completely out of his mind.

Work can take on a new dimension if you know something about the artist.

From time to time, little men will find fault with what you have done...but they will go down the stream like bubbles, they will vanish. But the work you have done will remain for the ages.

If the media spotlight affects my work or represses what I want to say in the future, then it is bad.

Nature is a big influence on my work. That's where the cosmic element comes in, an awareness of the relevance of what we do as a species, why we do it, and its implications.

I know I work quite hard at making people like me.

Here is a fear for me, I never wanted to be one of those guys that was defined by a body of work 20 years old.

If you can engage the influencer's passions, and work with them to craft a compelling logical appeal, then you can leverage the credibility of the influencer to actually sway hearts and minds.

Activism, to me, I don't know if it really works. It may work for somebody else, but it does not work for me.

I never studied with Balanchine, but his work was very important to me.

I am happy that thousands of students, young designers and fashion people will be able to see and study my work in every aspect of it.

I think that Walter De Maria's Lightning Field, Michael Heizer's City, and Charles Ross's work in Star Axis New Mexico , all three will last for a millennium.

We'll limit in all ways the work of religious faiths which are foreign to us.

Men give the same lines to different women for the same reason women wear the same perfume for different men; we all try the things that work.

[My pots ] are not like [Hans] Coper's at all, but the idea came from seeing catalogue of his work, although at the time we knew Hans, his work was nothing like that.

I've been influenced by someone or [English artists] work. I mentioned Hans Coper as an example.

I tremendously admire, and I think we all should, the great work done by our commander in chief, our president George Bush...

Work miracles by setting a good example. Others will catch your spirit! The power of a good example is the greatest miracle-working power of all.

As you help men to grow, as you work for peace, understanding and good will, your influence will merge, with the good influences of men of every age, into the eternal golden stream of God's goodness.

The most any one can do is to confess as candidly as he can the grounds for the faith that is in him, and leave his example to work on others as it may.

My work has always been the product of my time.