Influence Factors Quotes

I watch a lot of movies, and I tend to be influenced by scenes that intrigue me, that make me want to use the same effects or technique.

To me, as a musician, there aren't any boundaries genre-wise as far as what can you listen to to inspire you.

London owes everything to its press: it owes as much to its press as it does to its being the seat of government and the law.

Our parents have, by far, the greatest influence on shaping who we are and how we deal with the world.

The degree of influence with government, is dependant upon a variety of resources- of time, of money, of learned capacity- that are distributed unevenly between different sections of the population.

It's inevitable your environment will influence what you do.

People don't believe what you tell them. They rarely believe what you show them. They often believe what their friends tell them. They always believe what they tell themselves.

Individuals often exercise considerable influence upon the fate of society, but this influence is determined by the internal structure of that society and by its relation to other societies

My political giving has merely followed my relationships.

... some important factor doesn't lose its "share of force" just because some "expert" can better measure other types of force.

If I think about the way I was drawn into the music, it was much more by recordings than by live performances.

When I search myself carefully I do think it's from my mother. I even feel strange saying that. Most people, I believe, when they're asked profound questions about their own persona are not really able to enunciate it, because it's a combination of so many things. But certainly influences early on that I felt from my mother. I wouldn't say she was "political" per se; she was sensitive to other people.

I'm influenced by a lot of filmmakers; I like English filmmakers because I feel a kin to them.

We are very influenced by completely automatic things that we have no control over, and we don't know we're doing it.

If you want to change a person, you've got to change the situation.

People exercise an unconscious selection in being influenced.

As a child, you are influenced by your parents' actions.

We are unique, each human voice, not because we are completely self-generated, but because of who we choose to assemble the countless factors that made us.

People buy personalities as much as merchandise, and it is a question if they are not influenced more by the personalities with which they come in contact than they are by the merchandise.