Influence is to be measured, not by the extent of surface it covers, but by its kind.
William Ellery Channing

A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes.
Joseph Addison

I have more influence now than when I had the power.
Gough Whitlam

The only real influence I've ever had was myself.
Edward Hopper

Children have in the past and continue to influence policy makers.
Carol Bellamy

Whatever we do or fail to do will influence the course of history.
Arthur Henderson

Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it.
Simone Weil

Dreams have as much influence as actions.
Stephane Mallarme

I don't like to think about being an influence. It's embarrassing.
Bruce Nauman

On a scale of the United States, the Hollywood influence on what comes out, that's not the majority views of across the country. What we read in Us Weekly or People magazine, or Entertainment Tonight, it's not what the majority of the country is thinking.
Kid Rock

I've been as bad an influence on American literature as anyone I can think of.
Dashiell Hammett

It's not just for its influence on us, but to know that we can play a part in it, to understand the influence that we have outside our own existence.
Siobhan Davies

My parents, especially my mother, were no influence on me whatsoever.
Andy Partridge

But why should I run for office and lose what little influence I have?
Ron Silver

One would have to have completely forgotten the history of science so as to not remember that the desire to know nature has had the most constant and the happiest influence on the development of mathematics.
Henri Poincare

Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.
Walter Bagehot

Affluence means influence.
Jack London

As the society has gotten larger and more complex, individuals have lost their ability to influence any of the institutions that affect their lives.
Robert Teeter

Money motivates neither the best people, nor the best in people. It can move the body and influence the mind, but it cannot touch the heart or move the spirit; that is reserved for belief, principle, and morality.
Dee Hock

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