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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. — Ross Macdonald

I'd say the music influences the writing - the music and rhythm of the prose - much more than the writing influences the music. — Rob Roberge

I think there's too much of the wrong type of influences that stem from hip-hop. — Vince Staples

Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world. — Thomas Guthrie

My earliest influences were things I heard in my household. — Boz Scaggs

Who do you want to surround yourself with? People who can pull you up to their level of greatness? Or people who will happily pull you down to theirs? — Dan Pearce

Everyone is a leader because everyone influences someone. — John C. Maxwell

Anyone who influences others is a leader. — Charles R. Swindoll

What you look for in the world influences what materializes. What you perceive in the people around you influences how they show up. — Niurka

Any poet, if he is to survive beyond his 25th year, must alter; he must seek new literary influences; he will have different emotions to express. — T. S. Eliot

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

If I see a fashion show with literal influences, it doesn't make me think any more. It doesn't make me dream. — Raf Simons

You never know where your influences are going to come from, or where you're going to find your inspiration. — Page McConnell

What we think of Christ influences our thinking and controls our actions. — Billy Graham

America is the greatest of opportunities and the worst of influences. — George Santayana

My own style influences have to do with where I grew up, in the Bronx, and I still like to wear bangles and big hoops! — Jennifer Lopez

My family ... always had the value of the family table and these cultural influences of growing up. — Emeril Lagasse

Elvis Presley, The Everly Brothers, and a lot of American artists were my greatest influences. — Gordon Waller

The past influences everything and dictates nothing. — Adam Phillips

Daphne Guinness, who makes couture seem wearable, is an icon who influences what I wear. — Ashley Madekwe

Dreams have as much influences as actions. — Stephane Mallarme

I was always interested in finding the elegance of each style and understanding why it influences so many people. — Volker Bertelmann

The act of observing a quantum event probabalistically influences its outcome. — Dean Radin

Discard negative comments, criticism and influences. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The future influences the present just as much as the past. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Every person's true identity is beautiful, and much of the ugliness we observe in others was put inside of them by external influences. — Bryant McGill

One of the influences of Kafka over later writers is not so much in the content of his work as in its form. — John Kessel

Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being. — George Eliot

When you're crafting a character, it's good to have a lot of influences. — Ansel Elgort

What we do makes a difference and what we think about influences what we do. — Sam Owen

My musical influences are from the '50s: Bill Evans, Miles Davis and Ahmad Jamal. — Michael Moriarty

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

I'm a white guy listening to the Cure and thinking about Pynchon influences. — Shane Warren Jones

A positive attitude influences our behavior and dictates a successful approach. — Brian Michael Good

Unseen influences are the most persuasive. — Marty Rubin

My influences were Peter Sellers and the great British character actors. — Tracey Ullman

The religious superstitions of women perpetuate their bondage more than all other adverse influences. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Any experienced player knows how a change in the character of the play influences your psychological mood. — Garry Kasparov

Do not doubt thyself, have faith in thy soul. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Your reputation is what influences people to think, feel and talk about you the way they do. — Rob Brown

In Paris we have bistros, then we have fine dining. In London, you have a very contemporary scene with mixed influences. — Alain Ducasse

It does influence every part of your life and it influences every decision you make. (speaking about faith) — Joe Gibbs

My influences are, number one, hand to Jesus, Halle Berry. I think that she's so brilliant, and I love everything that she does, even 'Catwoman.' — Alexandra Shipp

As a new artist there's always outside influences trying to tell you how to make a song better for radio and how to do your hair. — Josh Groban

If I were to categorize what I sing, I have many different influences, and a lot of them are from back in time. — Haley Reinhart

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

The United States influences government and life everywhere else. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

I had a lot of very religious influences - Christian religious. — David Cassidy

The life most of us live are lives we are forced to live by immediate needs, influences, and pressures. — Walter Mosley

The interesting thing for me is to put together all my influences and all my experiences I got through my traveling with my father. — Rokia Traore

The knowledge of God that a person has, influences not only his own life, but also the lives of his children. — Sunday Adelaja

As a songwriter, oddly enough, my influences were people like Bob Dylan, The Velvet Underground, and Buddy Holly. Some psychedelic stuff, too. — Ric Ocasek

Time influences every aspect of man's life — Sunday Adelaja

The poet's habit of living should be set on a key so low that the common influences should delight him. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Resolve to throw off the influences of any unfortunate environment, and to build your own life to order. — Napoleon Hill

Did people think I sounded black? Totally, but that was a marketing tool as well, but also this is how I grew up and these are my influences. — Taylor Dayne

It is only when you know a boy's environment that you can know what influences to bring to bear. — Baden Powell De Aquino

Education is only the most fully conscious of the channels whereby each generation influences the next. — C.S. Lewis

I think that what happens is that all of my modern influences blend together with the older soul influences and you get Mayer Hawthorne. — Mayer Hawthorne

The poet and the painter are only truly great by the mutual influences of their studies, and the jealousy of glory has only produced an idle contest. — Isaac D'Israeli

Peer pressure and social norms are powerful influences on behaviour, and they are classic excuses. — Andrew Lansley

All I can do is take influences from where I was raised. — Rita Ora

As far as influences, I listen to a lot of people like Nina Simone and other androgynous voices, almost to make me feel like I'm not alone. — Shamir

There were influences in my life that were more important than journalism, such as comic strips and radio. — Guillermo Cabrera Infante

The thinking brain influences the body's responses and it makes a neat little loop. — Brad Warner

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

One of the greatest influences a person can have in this world is to influence a child. — Rosemary M. Wixom

As far as rap goes, I grew up in Hollis, Queens, so early influences were people like Run DMC and LL Cool J. — Ja Rule

In order for people to live their own lives and fulfill their destiny, they must differentiate themselves from destructive environmental influences. — Lisa Firestone

He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions. — Samuel Johnson

Both of us have forged our careers in London, but a lot of my comedy influences come from my family and my childhood. — Alice Lowe

What you eat matters. It influences the quality of your life. — Joel Fuhrman

My grandmother sang, too, and she was really loud. It was this wild kind of singing. I count her among my influences. — Cassandra Wilson

All adverse and depressing influences can be overcome, not by fighting, by by rising above them. — Charles Caleb Colton

My big influences are piano artists like Billy Joel and Elton John. — Kyle Dunnigan

Everything around me inspires and influences me. Mainly love - falling in it, losing it, loving it and hating it. — Christina Perri

Google gives preference to its own products, so having a Google+ account influences your search rankings. — Gary Vaynerchuk

It is not at all clear how much the media influences public opinion and how much public opinion influences the media. — Bruce Jackson

In Fall Out Boy, we were all playing with our pop punk influences, so that was always within that kind of framework. — Patrick Stump

Our brain is continuously being shaped - we can take more responsibility for our own brain by cultivating positive influences. — Richard Davidson

Do not Christians and Heathens, Jews and Gentiles, poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences? — Walter Scott

What you become directly influences what you get. — Jim Rohn

I can't wait to be a mom and a wife, and explore that phase of life. And also see how it affects and influences my song writing and creativity. — Tristan Prettyman

Don't listen to negative influences. Believe in yourself, and show others what you can do. Only "you" can find your potential. — Marla Runyan

I think I was affected quite a bit by musical and creative influences that go all the way back to my childhood. — Jeffrey Osborne

I'd say my biggest influences are writers like Andre Norton and, particularly when it comes to the Radch, C.J. Cherryh. — Ann Leckie

Nothing influences people more than are commendation from a trusted friend. — Mark Zuckerberg

I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism. — Don DeLillo

Your motive influences your motion. — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

I think music influences fashion and has done so for generations. — Georgia Jagger

When Loughner himself speaks and we find out his real influences are Spiderman, 'Gnome Chomsky,' Taylor Swift, and Dr. Bronner, then what? — Walter Kirn

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. — Jean M. Auel

If you are what you eat, you are what you see and hear. — E.A. Bucchianeri

I have come to feel that the only learning which significantly influences behavior is self-discovered, self-appropriated learning. — Carl R. Rogers

Jazz has always been a melting pot of influences and I plan to incorporate them all. — Esperanza Spalding

In addition to the artistic influences, I am influenced by my current private life, my feelings about it and my energy level and state of health. — Frank Auerbach

I still credit Adrian Lester with being one of my biggest influences. — Ashley Madekwe

Luck influences everything in life, but nothing beats setting goals and striving body and soul to achieve them. — Toyotomi Hideyoshi

Principles are like a seed in the ground; they must continually be visited with heavenly influences or else your life will be a barren field. — Thomas Traherne

In order to eliminate the negative influences, simply ignore them. — Laozi