Influence Quotes - Page 6

• It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference.

  Tom Brokaw

  Inspirational, Appreciation, Motivation

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter - a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue.

  Henri Matisse

  Dream, Depressing, Art

  Notes d'un peintre (Notes of a Painter, 1908) in Dominique Fourcade crits et propos sur l'art (1972) p. 30

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• It is my view that the vegetarian manner of living, by its purely physical effect on the human temperament, would most beneficially influence the lot of mankind.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.453, Princeton University Press

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• We are not influenced by the techniques or fashions of any other company.

  Walt Disney

  Fashion, Technique, Motion Pictures

  "Walt Disney : Conversations". Book by Kathy Merlock Jackson, 2006.

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• Every art, like our own, has in its composition fluctuating as well as fixed principles. It is an attentive inquiry into their difference that will enable us to determine how far we are influenced by custom and habit, and what is fixed in the nature of things.

  Joshua Reynolds

  Art, Differences, Principles

  sir Joshua Reynolds (1853). “Discourses on the Fine Arts Delivered to the Students of the Royal Academy”, p.31

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• I felt Joyce was an influence on my fiction, but in a very general way, as a kind of inspiration and a model for the beauty of language.

  Don DeLillo

  Inspiration, Fiction, Way

  "Q&A: Don DeLillo / It's not as easy as it looks / DeLillo talks about writing plays, watching sports and movies, and defining love and death". Interview with John Freeman, www.sfgate.com. March 5, 2006.

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• Picasso's always been such a huge influence that I thought when I started the cartoon paintings that I was getting away from Picasso, and even my cartoons of Picasso were done almost to rid myself of his influence.

  Roy Lichtenstein

  Cartoon, Done, Painting

  Roy Lichtenstein, David Sylvester, Galerie Lawrence Rubin (1997). “Roy Lichtenstein: new paintings”

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• My main influences have always been the classic jazz players who sang, like Louis Armstrong and Nat King Cole and Jack Teagarden.

  Mose Allison

  Kings, Player, Jazz

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• Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.

  Bertrand Russell

  Fear, Men, Thinking

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Unpopular Essays”, p.106, Routledge

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• Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children.

  Billy Graham

  Christian, Mom, Mother

  FaceBook post by Billy Graham from May 08, 2014

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• Be selective about your external influences. Your multi-dimensional brain is influenced by everything you see, hear, read, smell, touch, feel or say.

  Brian Tracy

  Smell, Brain, Feels

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• Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Funny, Sarcastic

  Quoted in More Maxims of Mark, ed. Merle Johnson (1927)

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• The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Family, Best Effort

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• People exercise an unconscious selection in being influenced.

  T. S. Eliot

  Exercise, People, Unconscious

  T.S. Eliot (1950). “Selected Essays”

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• Originality thrives in seclusion free of outside influences

  Nikola Tesla

  Solitude, Originality, Intriguing

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• It would be difficult to exaggerate the degree to which we are influenced by those we influence.

  Eric Hoffer

  Degrees, Would Be, Literature

  Eric Hoffer (1969). “Working and Thinking on the Waterfront: A Journal, June 1958-May 1959”

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• You can pay for school, but you can't buy class

  Jay-Z

  School, Class, Inspire

  Song: Swagga Like Us

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• It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people's lives.

  Clint Eastwood

  Influence And Power, Discipline, People

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• The way we metabolize our experience of time influences our biological clock.

  Deepak Chopra

  Time, Way, Clock

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• Isn't it wonderful how dogs can win friends and influence people without ever reading a book.

  Charles E. McKenzie

  Friendship, Dog, Reading

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• The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.

  Herodotus

  Wise, Men, Hateful

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• Among the appliances to transform the people, sound and appearances are but trivial influences.

  Confucius

  People, Sound, Appearance

  Confucius, Mencius, Ssǔ shu, Wu king, Shu Ching (1861). “The Chinese Classics”, p.297

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• Those who exert the first influence upon the mind have the greatest power.

  Horace Mann

  Mind, Firsts

  Horace Mann (1872). “Thoughts Selected from the Writings of Horace Mann ...”, p.10

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• Some wisdom you must learn from one who's wise

  Euripides

  Wise, Literature

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• Learn to distinguish what you can and can't control. Within our control are our own opinions, aspirations, desires and the things that repel us. They are directly subject to our influence.

  Epictetus

  Life, Desire, Opinion

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