Influential Quotes

As the centuries pass, the evidence is accumulating that, measured by His effect on history, Jesus is the most influential life ever lived on this planet.

Rather than a big figure, I guess you could say I'm more of an influential minority symbol.

Anything I wanted to do and achieve has not been influential in my life, but my failures have.

If I started thinking too much about how influential I've been, then I'd be more of a turd than I already am.

Bob Dylan is as influential as any artist that there has been.

The broader and more influential organisations of businessmen have acted to undermine the basic foundation of the free market system they purport to represent and defend.

Power leads to more power, no matter what your racket, and not only were they rich and influential but they were smart as hell, too.

I think, therefore I am ... not here.

Whether I like it or not, I've become influential to people.

Behind the October Revolution there are more influential personalities than the thinkers and executors of Marxism.

Troubadours have always been more important and influential than theologians and bishops

Too often we elevate the inconsequential into the influential... by reacting without reflecting.

Of course former colonial powers are always more present and influential. They're the ones who need to defend the EU's values on the frontlines.

I am so credible and so influential and so relevant that I will change things.

What is written is more influential than what is said.

The human brain is a funny thing: it's very susceptible to tempo and melody. You put the right words to it, and it becomes very influential.

It is a terrible thought, to contemplate that an immense number of mediocre thinkers are occupied with really influential matters.

The largest and most influential houses chiefly demonstrate the aloofness of the French approach.

Adults are naturally most conscious of directing the conduct of others when they are immediately aiming so to do. As a rule, they have such an aim consciously when they find themselves resisted; when others are doing things they do not wish them to do. But the more permanent and influential modes of control are those which operate from moment to moment continuously without such deliberate intention on our part.

The most influential time in my life musically was definitely those piano lessons.

The most influential of all the virtues are those which are the most in request for daily use. They wear the best, and last the longest.

In the pursuit of education, individual desire is more influential than institution, and personal faith more forceful than faculty.

Marlon Brando is the most influential movie actor of the century.

That was a time when I did love music, I couldn't get enough of what was going on. Maybe it was Nirvana that brought me back. I guess it was a comfort because something that sounded so right - and non-commercial - had become so influential, so immediately.

I try not to listen to a lot of music when I'm starting the recording process, because it can be so subtly influential.

In my life the most influential people are people who are sort of brought to me, as opposed to people I seek out.

I've been too productive for too long, and despite what anybody wants to strip away from me, I am influential. I am.

I am so honored to be named as one of Time's 100 most influential people.

Eddie Van Halen was probably the most influential.

Human kind has little or nothing to do with the recent temperature changes. We are not that influential

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is the most influential woman in Washington - for what she has accomplished and for what she may yet do: win the presidency.

Sometimes the most influential thing we can do is listen.

Any observations from the Moon or a sense of realising this or that about the greater meaning of things wasn't as influential for me as the experience of coming back and dealing with being a person who's been to the Moon.

My favorite parable for living a positive and influential life is the Golden Rule: Do unto others what you would have them do unto you.

In the past some of the most influential Jewish, Christian and Muslim theologians, such as Maimonides, Aquinas and Ibn Sina, made it clear that it was very difficult to speak about God, because when we confront the ultimate, we are at the end of what words or thoughts can do.

I was never really that aware of commercial things. The stuff that was really influential to me were bands like the Misfits or the Birthday Party, or things like that. If someone said, "Do you love Judas Priest?" - I never really even had a Judas Priest record. That's not what I grew up with. That wasn't really my scene, you know? That's why White Zombie never really fit. I still don't fit.

Das Kapital, I think, is very difficult to read, and for me, it was not very influential.

[Louis Brandeis] at the age of 57 decided to become the head of the American Zionist movement was more influential than anyone else in the 20th century in persuading Woodrow Wilson to recognize a Jewish homeland in Palestine.

At the time it really was the social women, the society ladies. There were the cool girls, like Aerin Lauder - everyone loved to see what Aerin was wearing. Carolyn Bessette was very much in that time period. Calvin [Kleine] was very influential in the '90s.

Michelle Obama, and any woman behind an influential man, has always been there.

Without hesitation,
I place Freud among the heroes.
He dispossessed the Jewish people of the greatest and most influential of all heroes-Moses.

I want to see as many movies as I can and I covet a lot of weird influential movies.

A lot of the commercial expression of hip-hop leaves a lot to be desired - but then, there's a lot of whack gospel music, but I'm not leading a crusade against it. Of course, the vices of hip-hop are far more influential, I understand. But the good that hip-hop transmits, the power of the culture to rally the best of our protest, and uplift, and resistance, traditions, is often unfairly overlooked.

Music is very influential to my writing, as are theater and film.

Donald Trump is so universally despised, because he so often says the wrong thing and has absolutely no moral code outside of just wanting to be powerful and influential.

Online media is increasingly influential in fashion.

Phil Collins sold five times as many records as I did. Does that make him nearly as influential as I am? Nope.

Rousseau was mad but influential; Hume was sane but had no followers.

The city is always influential in the work, though I've had that temptation to leave, but only recently. It's difficult because whenever I start working someplace else, I'm like, "Man, this would have been better if I had my subwoofer."

[A.J. Muste] was very influenced - in - influential in the peace movement, in the civil rights movement.