Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Kenneth Galbraith

THE INDUSTRIAL SYSTEM requires that prices be under effective control. And it seeks the greatest possible influence over what buyers take at the established prices.

Leo Tolstoy

Under the influence of music, it seems that I feel what I do not really feel, that I understand what I do not understand, that I do what I cannot do.

Joseph Campbell

The influence of a vital being vitalizes.

Louisa May Alcott

Persuasive influences are better than any amount of moralizing.

Jonah Hill

Albert Brooks is definitely one of my biggest influences, for sure.

John Dewey

When others are not doing what we would like them to or are threatening disobedience, we are most conscious of the need of controlling them and of the influences by which they are controlled.

John Dewey

An inanimate being is, of course, continuous with its surroundings; but the environing circumstances do not, save metaphorically, constitute an environment. For the inorganic being is not concerned in the influences which affect it.

Joey Santiago

Doolittle was a major influence on the Seattle grunge scene, which emerged in the early 1990s.

Most of my influences are turn-of-the-century.

Mahathir Mohamad

No one should have extra influence on an organisation. We should always regard ourselves as equals in the organisation, and we should be concerned about each other's problems.

John C. Maxwell

Praise them for what they do well, both privately and publicly.

Henri Matisse

For my part I have never avoided the influence of others. I would have considered it cowardice and a lack of sincerity toward myself.

Henry Ward Beecher

Everyone has influence, for good or bad, upon others.

John Knox

You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Emilio Estefan

They're versatile because they're bicultural. They have the syncopation of Latin music, and at the same time, they have all the influence of American pop.

It is unbelievable the influence you, as coaches, have. You, as coaches, speak volumes to these kids, ... It's what they see that they learn.

Siobhan Davies

It's not just for its influence on us, but to know that we can play a part in it, to understand the influence that we have outside our own existence.

They didn't want to be influenced in any way; the work has to stand alone.

They're having to scramble more to keep this influence peddling under the radar, ... Is that progress?

Steve Largent

I can't tell you how important it is for people on the public stage to utilize that stage in a constructive, positive way. When you're in the public eye, you have a decision to make - whether you are going to be an influence or not.

Lykke Li

Where I've been hasn't influenced my music. It's more what I listen to. You can find music everywhere, so moving hasn't really influenced my music, more me as a person.

Paolo Bacigalupi

As a kid, I always liked reading stories where I had a power-projection fantasy. I wanted to be inside of a story where I had power and influence, was going to rise to power, was going to somehow influence my society.

DECIDE, v.i. To succumb to the preponderance of one set of influences over another set.

The stronger the bar, the more influence it has on everything going on in the galaxy.

The movement was influenced by the rise of the dollar.

Rita Ora

Streetwear for me is what I was raised wearing in London, and my style influences growing up were always people who wore streetwear.

That's going to mean a whole lot of outside money pouring into Minnesota to try to influence the race.

Benjamin Booker

I guess I would call my music blues punk. Theres a lot of influences.

Brian Tracy

Your ability to negotiate, communicate, influence, and persuade others to do things is absolutely indispensable to everything you accomplish in life.

Boz Scaggs

My earliest influences were things I heard in my household.

Calvin Coolidge

Everyone has an influence on public affairs if he will take the trouble to exert it.

Bela Kun

My personal influence in the Revolutionary Governing Council is such that the dictatorship of the proletariat is firmly established, since the masses are backing me.

Brian May

Mantovani was a great influence on me.