Influence Quotes

People don’t understand how much influence they can actually have on a writer, how much a writer’s feelings can be hurt, how much they can deflect his course when they raise their voices like they did over highly personal books like ‘Panama’ or ‘Bullet Park.’

– Thomas McGuane

If you are in a position to influence someone, you are a leader.

– Sheri L. Dew

I start looking for adjectives in news reporting, and if there are too many of them, if they’re all sort of repeatedly designed to influence my thinking in a certain way, I start getting concerned. I’m leery of people trying to paint a picture in a certain way.

– Thomas Sadoski

If you’re from a certain generation, you basically learn to read with ‘Peanuts.’ It’s sort of the template for the modern strip. Its influence ceased to be noticed because it’s in everything.

– Stephan Pastis

As a kid, I loved Paula Poundstone and Richard Pryor. But my mother was a huge influence on my comedy.

– Tig Notaro

Your credit score affects the interest rates you’re offered on credit cards and loans, can be used to vet your job application, and in some states may influence your insurance premiums.

– Suze Orman

If slavery, limited as it yet is, now threatens to subvert the Constitution, how can we as wise and prudent statesmen, enlarge its boundaries and increase its influence, and thus increase already impending dangers?

– William H. Seward

I think if you look at most successful people, if you ask most of them, their biggest influence was their dad.

– Tom Lehman

There is a growing global anti-establishment revolt against the permanent political class at home and the global elites that influence them, which impacts everyone from Lubbock, Texas, to London, England.

– Stephen Bannon

Genes are not simple triggers. No one is hardwired to commit murder or any other crime. Our actions are always the result of stupendously complex gene-environment interactions, and environment is likely to remain the more important influence by far.

– William Landay

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