#influence

People under the influence of cults is similar to that we observe in addicts. Typical behaviour for both includes draining bank accounts, neglecting children, destroying relations with family and losing interest in anything except the drug or cult. ↗

— Keith Henson

#anything #bank #behaviour #both #children

The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence. ↗

— Herodotus

#human #influence #man #misfortune #most

Children are easily influenced, and I always want to do things I can be proud to show my kids someday. ↗

— Faith Hill

#children #easily #i #i always #i can

But I'm more interested in why people are frightened by Jaws and why Jaws was such a hit than saying Spielberg's my main influence. ↗

— Damien Hirst

#hit #i #influence #interested #jaws

I have more influence now than when I had the power. ↗

— Gough Whitlam

#i #influence #more #now #power

I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#art #been #beyond #democracy #displacing

Iris Murdoch did influence my early novels very much, and influence is never entirely good. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#early #entirely #good #influence #much

I'm really influenced by so many different things. ↗

— Alex Winter

#different things #i #influenced #many #really

The most profound, tangible influence in my life has been my wife, Monique. I don't know that I would even be alive were it not for her, and I certainly would not be the person that I am today. ↗

— Edgar Winter

#am #been #certainly #even #her

There were a whole lot, I bought every blues record I could find, it wasn't just one or two people. My vocal influences were Ray Charles and Bobby Blue Bland. ↗

— Johnny Winter

#blue #blues #bobby #bought #charles