I consider every drummer that ever played before me an influence, in every way.
Buddy Rich

No, generally I think influence is used as a nice word for plagiarism.
Gilbert Gottfried

As a coach you can influence the diet of your players. You can point out what is wrong.
Arsene Wenger

By liberty I mean the assurance that every man shall be protected in doing what he believes is his duty against the influence of authority and majorities, custom and opinion.
John Acton

I think my uncle was probably the biggest influence in my life. We grew up in the same house, and he was just a really great, hard-working, honest, ethical person.
Catherine Bell

How can a coach have any influence over a player that's making over five times more than he is?
Hayden Fry

My older kids are fantastic people. It can't be the result of my influence on them.
Harrison Ford

The forbidden things were a great influence on my life. I was forbidden from reading A Catcher in the Rye.
Amy Tan

I think clearly the United States, as well as other western nations, should stand by their commitments to human rights and democracy and should try to influence other countries to move in that direction.
Samuel P. Huntington

If you examine this, I think that you will find that it's the mechanics of Japanese architecture that have been thought of as the direct influence upon our architecture.
Minoru Yamasaki

No faction is better or worse than any other. All come from the same mould; they are all products of capitalist influence in the working class movement. And they are a poison that destroys our Party and the working class movement in Korea.
Kim Jong Il

A teacher affects eternity he can never tell, where his influence stops.
Henry B. Adams

In the latter half of the last century the impact of the expanding influence of Western culture and economic system brought about in China a severe conflict.
Chen Ning Yang

The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the five hundred, he reaches the five hundred thousand.
Henry B. Adams

Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.
Friedrich Schiller

I felt Joyce was an influence on my fiction, but in a very general way, as a kind of inspiration and a model for the beauty of language.
Don DeLillo

The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence.
Don DeLillo

I don't think that artists of any kind would or could sacrifice their artistic freedom by being more responsible with their influence on people, especially young people.
Christy Turlington

So in Asia I want to make - I want to succeed to make a model of what success, practicing democracy, and market economy. Then that will give a good influence over Asian countries.
Kim Dae Jung

The greatest ability in business is to get along with others and to influence their actions.
John Hancock