What's the difference between being "inspired" and being "influenced" by another person?

Answer 1

When someone inspires you their actions make you want to do something whereas influenced is more when their kind of pushing you, like a football coach or something.

Answer 2

Inspiration is used mostly in positive sense. For example i was "inspired" by the speech of Mahatma Gandhi.
Whereas, "influence" is used in negtive sense most of the time.
A teen age boy committed an unbelievable crime by the (negative) "influence" of a recently screened movie!

Answer 3

I think to be "inspired" you lyke what they're doing and they make you want to do something, but in your own way. While being "influenced" means that you base all your decisions on what the person does.

Answer 4

Mostly, inspiration comes from within, but influence from without. When inspiration comes from without, it is mostly positive and innovative. Inspiration is a guidance without breaching your freedom. Influence is a control.

Answer 5

Inspiration begins went you can give your self some credit, for what you have, Though?, It's very simple, you just have too trust your instincts, if you are a man?, and if you are a woman, I will need to trust first, my Inspiration? (intuition)??????, Although I'm a man, your question have allow my self to respond with enough time and as well use my intuition, which I believed its faster and more accurately use by women's.

Answer 6

You are inspired to have your own vision and your own ideas and you are influenced to adopt someone else's.

Answer 7

I would interpret the difference to mean the degree to which you're life or your undertaking or whatever was impacted or effected by another individual's input. God Bless you.