#influences

The early influences, in many ways, were in Baltimore. I was passing open windows where there might be a radio playing something funky. In the summertime, sometimes there'd be a man sitting on a step, playing an acoustic guitar, playing some kind of folk blues. The seed had been planted. ↗

— Jerry Leiber

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The future influences the present just as much as the past. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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I am passionate about God, about Jesus, and what His influences do to me. ↗

— TobyMac

#am #god #his #i #i am

Any ground subtracts its own hue from the colors which it carries and therefore influences. ↗

— Josef Albers

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For there is no creature whose inward being is so strong that it is not greatly determined by what lies outside it. ↗

— George Eliot

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I definitely get affected by new stuff. There's a lot of older influences, but there's also newer stuff too. ↗

— Nuno Bettencourt

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My influences were Peter Sellers and the great British character actors. ↗

— Tracey Ullman

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

— Gordon Waller

#artists #brothers #elvis #elvis presley #everly

Aggression is the most common behavior used by many organizations, a nearly invisible medium that influences all decisions and actions. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#aggression #behavior #common #decisions #influences

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

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