Influences Quotes

My first influences were superhero artists.

OUR history begins before we are born. We represent the hereditary influences of our race, and our ancestors virtually live in us.

Nothing has existence unless you, I, or some living creature perceives it, and how it is perceived further influences that reality. Even time itself is not exempted from biocentrism.

The future influences the present just as much as the past.

Latin music has many international influences - pop, rock, country, Brazilian sounds, and alternative styles.

I like to believe that everyone is born with the same skill set, and that it is the influences that one comes upon.

If I may take the liberty to speak for science at least, today his name and his prizes are without a peer in the world. He not only elevates science but he influences it as well.

Time perspective is one of the most powerful influences on all of human behavior. We're trying to show how people become biased to being exclusively past-, present- or future-oriented.

I don't think American independent films have ever really been particularly experimental, except for the original guys from the '60s who were huge influences, like Stan Brakhage, Robert Breer, and Stan van der Beek. They were the true independents.

I wanted to pay tribute to my musical influences: Buffalo Springfield, Lightfoot, the Beatles, the Hollies.

As far as spiritual influences in Christian music, I would say Crystal Lewis - a lot of her songs especially. The ministry she has through her songs has really hit me.

I can't tell you any more than any other writer can tell you why they write, and I don't know what my influences are.

We're definitely a hodgepodge of influences. Mine, most heavily, would be Southern rock - the Allman Brothers, Lynyrd Skynyrd and stuff like that. Hillary is more from the country side - her mom is Linda Davis, a country singer. Dave, he's a big fan of the Eagles and like that.

This also is a part of the teaching of the Church, that there are certain angels of God, and certain good influences, which are His servants in accomplishing the salvation of men.

My biggest musical influences are probably my parents.

I think one of my biggest influences is Bette Davis. I've seen almost every one of her films, and she's been very inspiring to me.

Dying before dying has two important consequences: It liberates the individual from the fear of death and influences the actual experience of dying at the time of biological demise.

While there are many influences on gas prices in America, I believe the passage of a national energy bill will help relieve this burden on our country.

I was a jazz major in high school, in an all-jazz band. No matter what I do, it features my musical influences.

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

Freud was one of the greatest influences on me. He made myth into psychiatry, and I've been trying to turn it back into myth again.

One of my great influences was Don Knotts as Barney Fife.

My two biggest influences are Archie comics and Dennis the Menace.

When Picasso painted in Paris, was he a Spanish or a French painter? It does not matter, he was Picasso, whatever the influences surrounding him. He simply chose Paris because it was the ideal place for him to sell his creation.

I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.

These are the influences that everybody has. Some individuals might stand out because of one thing or another, but whether one's perception as a child of what was important or not is accurate, I don't know.

But in the life of every man there are influences of a far more real and penetrating character than those which come through the medium of schools or teachers.

The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years.

Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior.

When you see all of these bands citing you as influences, it makes you feel relevant.