influences

It is better to dwell on the beautiful things in life than the negative.

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

Ballot papers do not define leaders. Leadership is defined by conviction, vision, passion and inspiration.

Authority confined in you does not make you a leader. It is the authority created by you that makes you influence people with your purpose.

All selling should spring from service

Who do you want to surround yourself with? People who can pull you up to their level of greatness? Or people who will happily pull you down to theirs?

If you are what you eat, you are what you see and hear.

The knowledge of God that a person has, influences not only his own life, but also the lives of his children.

What you think of is what you will attract to your life.

When I started to draw, most of my influences were from other painters and illustrators, so I was drawing landscape at second hand, really. The trees were Rackham trees, or trees that I had seen in paintings rather than from my own observation...and I started to feel this was a real lack in my work. Everything was too generalised, and not based on real experience. Then in 1975, after having worked for some years in London as a book cover illustrator mainly, I came down to Devon and stayed with some friends up on the moor. In the course of this one weekend, wandering around the moor, finding rivers and ancient woods, I realised that everything that I would ever want to draw was actually here. There was so much richness in the texture and forms of these fantastic trees...and I decided in the course of that weekend to come and live here. I looked at a couple of houses, found one, and made an offer on it, all in that one weekend!

Life is too short to surrender as a matter of course to external influences.

Evil influence is like a nicotine patch, you cannot help but absorb what sticks to you.

The religious superstitions of women perpetuate their bondage more than all other adverse influences.

Everyone who is a comedian or an actor or a musician have many people who influenced them. They in turn influence others. It is a great thing that is handed down. We need to know our history because our art is created from the re-imaginings from our minds with the seeds of the greats who combined as a potpourri in our heads to create something new. You can see it in my stand up. You can hear it in the music of today

__e knows that if his father had been a different man, or his mother another women, he would have been the same._ He would have lived all his years the same way. They played no part. Any combination would have produced the same result. The same man._

I see, I see! From association Messala, in boyhood, was almost a Jew; had he remained here, he might have become a proselyte, so much do we all borrow from the influences that ripen our lives; but the years in Rome have been too much for him. I do not wonder at the change; yet_--her voice fell--__e might have dealt tenderly at least with you. It is a hard, cruel nature which in youth can forget its first loves.

I'm generally quite happy until someone tells me I'm not. I don't see how they know I'm not, but suddenly I feel less happy.

The ambiance of every environment in a country is the value system of the given nation. It is that culture that influences how citizens of a nation react, respond and behave among themselves in regards to politics, commerce, family and social life.