Early influences of mine are artists who invented something, a new way of seeing. (hammer.ucla.edu)
These reflections on the major early influences on my thinking have an obvious bearing on where I am trying to go in my remaining years of intellectual inquiry. (religion-online.org)
His fear of failure, his desire to do more than one aspect of the business and trying to make it on his own were early influences on his path to success. (deadline.com)