Quotes About Influence

The world moves into the future as a result of decisions, not as a result of plans. Plans are significant only insofar as they affect decisions.

The best way to know any future is to cause one.

Our words have creative power. With our words, we can speak blessings over our future or we can speak negative things over our future.

Your future is being determined by you right now, depending on the choices you make.

Architects today tend to depreciate themselves, to regard themselves as no more than just ordinary citizens without the power to reform the future.

Your vision, ideas and plans have the power to shape the future, but not if you keep them to yourself.

What is really momentous and all-important with us is the present, by which the future is shaped and colored.

Kids don't make up 100 percent of our population, but they do make up 100 percent of our future.

The world will be saved by one or two people.

The visions we offer our children shape the future.

I like the comfort in knowing that women are the only future in rock and roll.

As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man.

We know the future will outlast all of us, but I believe that all of us will live on in the future we made.

Rap's the occupation, but one day watch I'll be Pimp of the Nation.

People like B.B. King told me I was a 'star' and told me I was 'the future of blues' - and Buddy Guy, too, ... They told me, 'You're it, son; go on out there.

I saw rock n' roll future and its name is Bruce Springsteen.

You will be able to appreciate the influence of such an Engine on the future progress of science. I live in a country which is incapable of estimating it.

Blade Runner was an incredibly influential movie, in terms of the way that it envisioned what the future was going to look like.

Never forget that your role as a leader is to be a steward for future generations.

Reason shapes the future, but superstition infects the present.

practically nothing we do ever stands by itself. If it is good, it will serve some good purpose in the future. If it is evil, it may haunt us and handicap our efforts in unimagined ways.

It is impossible to be a cynic if you live a good deal with young people. Fundamentally, every young person has a feeling that the future is going to hold something of value.

Would you like to do something good for the future of the human race; well, start killing some of its powerful members.

In the future history will be made only by us.