Quotes About Development

Who knows what would have become of me, if my parents had not had their influence on me.

Well I had my kids so young that I kind of feel that I'm a kid too and am growing up with them. The things they're interested in tend to really influence me.

I was influenced by every comedian I ever saw work. That's the only way you learn how to do it.

The past can influence the future. When you finish one chapter, you open another, which will be influenced by what you've just lived through.

I don't feel like I'm influenced by anybody, but I feel I'm definitely becoming more a leader.

Obviously you do get influenced by former managers. That's normal. You try to build your own coaching philosophies. I've played for Arrigo Saachi, Dino Zoff, Zdenek Zeman, Gullit, Vialli and Ranieri.

I think that's part of the beautiful game. It's kind of this special relationship that happens in football, where you get kind of influenced by the people around you and the different cultures around you and it allows you to grow and develop.

I've definitely grown and evolved as a person, as an artist, you know. Just in terms of my style, my taste, my influences, everything... That's a part of being an artist I think.

I think my real influences are out of my control, which are the things that entered my brain when I was a kid growing up.

I feel I have a lot to learn from English football and I am completely open to good influences in my way of thinking football. But I also have things to give them.

Usually, I think you have most of your musical influences locked down by the time you're 16.

It's amazing to me to see how bands evolve and how they take all their influences and come up with their own sound.

When you're crafting a character, it's good to have a lot of influences.

Don't copy another writer's style, because that is not authentic, and that's how it will sound. You develop your style over your whole life and through countless influences. Don't impose something artificial.

When you're young, influences count.

Good coaches, as we all know, can have amazing influences on boys.

My own accumulation of influences is actually what made me a writer in the first place.

As an actor, you want to be able to move your character forward into new ground, but also it's really interesting to go backwards and unpeel those layers and the interesting elements of what your character is and what informs the decisions that you make so that you can have as much meat to work with.

Everybody's past and history informs them.

History informs where we are and how we got here.

If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are conditions for development.

I was really young when I was working on 'Freaks and Geeks.' In a lot of ways, that was the experience that informed a lot of what I've become, and I feel like every experience I have is in some way or another an extension of something that started there.

I want to encourage all parents to read to their children because it helps them to become better educated, better informed.

The power and energy sectors are the biggest constituents of the infrastructure sector. If you ignore them, no development will happen.