I understand that postmodern literature probably means people like DeLillo, The Fiction Collective, but I don't get it that those writers are really influenced by postmodern theorists.
Training in compassion is a mental activity. but our mind should also be brought to the level where every action we take is influenced by compassion. That means engaging ourselves in compassion in action.
But I am influenced by the world that says I influence it. The world I live in is my influence.
It seemed to me you could do anything in comics. So I started doing my thing, which is mainly influenced by novelists, stand-up comedians, that sort of thing
There are a lot of photographers who have influenced me; some of the great ones, like Herb Ritts, Helmut Newton, and [Alfred] Stieglitz. I draw from all of them. You're supposed to steal from the good ones.
Is it experimental to have been influenced by the Bible? By Saint Augustine?
I must admit to being greatly influenced by Joseph Campbell's The Hero With a Thousand Faces.
I just love Cape Breton fiddling! I think it's very close. They derive their music from Scottish music. Well, in Donegal we're very influenced by Scottish music as well. Independently the two areas became very alike, because they kind of changed the music a bit from Scotland and we did the same.
Self-appraisals are influenced by evaluative reactions of others
I can't think of an instance at MSNBC where anything I said on the air was influenced by what was going on behind the scenes.
Whether I'm being influenced by new music that I'm listening to, books I've read, my friends, or my faith, I'm learning all the time.
What characters do must grow out of who they are, and who they are is, in turn, influenced by what you make happen to them.
You must not allow yourself to be advised, cautioned, influenced, persuaded
if I hadn't gone to a private Christian school, I'd never have built up enough animosity to want to have started a band. And now that I have one, the fact that they are giving me such resistance and publicity, they have made me far bigger than they'd ever have wanted me to have become. So I guess in a strange way the Christians have influenced me the most.
I was heavily influenced by Andy Kaufman and Steven Wright.
We did meet forty years ago. At that time we were both influenced by Whitman and I said, jokingly in part, 'I don't think anything can be done in Spanish, do you?' Neruda agreed, but we decided it was too late for us to write our verse in English. We'd have to make the best of a second-rate literature.
Why does man have reason if he can only be influenced by violence?
I don't watch a lot of other people's parodies because I don't want to be unduly influenced.
When I think of those who have influenced my life the most, I think not of the great but of the good.
When your opponent is hurrying recklessly, you must act contrarily and keep calm. You must not be influenced by the opponent.