Quotes About Influence

Design creates culture. Culture shapes values. Values determine the future.

The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.

We should try to be the parents of our future rather than the offspring of our past.

If you do not design the future, someone or something else will design it for you.

You can predict a person?s future and divine his bank balance if you know two things: the books he reads, the people he associates with.

There's no future without the past and anybody who doesn't really understand where jazz has come from has no right to try to direct where it's going.

The secret of leadership is simple: Do what you believe in. Paint a picture of the future. Go there. People will follow.

Our future and our fate lie in our wills more than in our hands, for our hands are but the instruments of our wills.

He who controls the past controls the future.

The people you listen to are a preview of the future you.

Act as if the future of the universe depends on what you do, while laughing at yourself for thinking that your actions make any difference.

The power to affect your future lies within your own hands.

Children aren't just our future. They're our present.

We are the ancestors of the future and what we do now will have an impact.

It is not for us to forecast the future, but to shape it.

The father, the mother and the teacher are the three primarily responsible for moulding the future of the country.

The future belongs to he who has the bishops.

Our Futures are Formed by the Thoughts we Hold Most Often.

Everyone here has the sense that right now is one of those moments when we are influencing the future.

Every gathering of Americans-whether a few on the porch of a crossroads store or massed thousands in a great stadium-is the possessor of a potentially immeasurable influence on the future.

While we can remember the past, we cannot write the future. Only our children, the future of our community, can do that.

At some point around '94 or '95, 'Rolling Stone' said that guitar rock was dead and that the Chemical Brothers were the future. I think that was the last issue of 'Rolling Stone' I ever bought.

Remember that in giving any reason at all for refusing, you lay some foundation for a future request.

Your input determines your outlook. Your outlook determines your output, and your output determines your future.