#influence

You are bound to pick up influences. ↗

— Steven Patrick Morrissey

#influences #pick #up #you

Mantovani was a great influence on me. ↗

— Brian May

#influence #me

In most cases, those who want power probably shouldn't have it, those who enjoy it probably do so for the wrong reasons, and those who want most to hold on to it don't understand that it's only temporary. ↗

— John C. Maxwell

#motivational-inspirational #motivational-speaker #inspirational

Music’s the soundtrack of my life and has been since I was a teenager. There’s always music. If I’m not playing it, I’m listening to it. With my writing…sometimes it inspires a story, sometimes it highlights something I’m working on, sometimes it simply helps me stay in the narrative mood. ↗

— Charles de Lint

#music #narrative #inspirational

I don't have any influences, any heroes, it's just me. ↗

— GG Allin

#heroes #i #influences #just #me

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

#i #influences #know #more #other

The first movie I saw - and I don't know if it influenced me - was Ben Hur. We watched it outside in a corn field, and it ran backwards, so the first movie I ever saw was Ben Hur backwards. ↗

— Roberto Benigni

#ben #corn #ever #field #first

The point of my work is to show that culture and education aren't simply hobbies or minor influences. ↗

— Pierre Bourdieu

#education #hobbies #influences #minor #point

We are always going to be influenced by America... I watched the word 'bum' go out and 'butt' come in. And part of me says, oh that's a shame, but Aussie boys are still Aussie boys. ↗

— Bryan Brown

#america #aussie #bum #come #go

I knew I could not maintain that leadership in open struggle against Moscow influence. Only two Communist leaders in history ever succeeded in doing this - Tito and Mao Tse-tung. ↗

— Earl Browder

#communist #could #doing #ever #history