#influence

She looked out the window; in her eyes was the light that you see only in children arriving at a new place, or in young people still open to new influences, still curious about the world because they have not yet been scarred by life. ↗

— Orhan Pamuk

#influence #life #world #youth #life

I put together the influences of my life in as clear a way as I possibly can, in the same way that Beethoven or Schoenberg or Bach put their influences together. ↗

— John Zorn

#beethoven #clear #i #influences #life

A lot of people give in to those pressures and let others influence the process on their second albums because they want to achieve the success they had with their first again, but they don't know how to do it. ↗

— Vanessa Carlton

#again #albums #because #first #give

No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent. ↗

— William Ellery Channing

#consent #depress #down #hardship #influence

Influence is to be measured, not by the extent of surface it covers, but by its kind. ↗

— William Ellery Channing

#extent #influence #kind #measured #surface

My family has always been there to support me along the way. My coach, John Nicks, is a great influence. ↗

— Sasha Cohen

#always #been #coach #family #great

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

— Gordon Waller

#artists #brothers #elvis #elvis presley #everly

The intercourse between the Mediterranean and the North or between the Atlantic and Central Europe was never purely economic or political; it also meant the exchange of knowledge and ideas and the influence of social institutions and artistic and literary forms. ↗

— Christopher Dawson

#artistic #atlantic #between #central #economic

I've always liked country music. It's a certain aspect of America that goes back to the British Isles and the influence is very native to America. ↗

— Robert Duvall

#america #aspect #back #british #certain

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#against #complex #councils #disastrous #exists