Quotes About Influence

I worry about what we'll do in the future, [about the instantaneous co-opting of pop culture]. Where is our new stuff going to come from?

Faith in yourself, in your friends, in your colleagues and most of all, faith in your ability to impact our future is the best strategy I know.

I have seen the future of pop music and it is a band called Queen.

We can influence the future but not see it.

You hold all of our futures in your hands. So you better make it good.

I never thought basketball was going to be my future. I just wanted to play because it gets you girls.

I steal things from people, characteristics, and I just stock them in my head like a library to use for characters in the future.

Control of space means control of the world.

The groups of which we are a part impact our decisions and our decisions shape the future.

China is very important. The future growth of China, China's influence is bound to rise.

The only woman to whom it has been given to touch what is decisive in the present world and to have a presentiment of the world of the future.

Expectations have no effect on the harvest.

If I'm lucky enough to be involved in the Academy Awards in the future, I'll just let people make up their decision without being involved in any politics. Because it shouldn't involve that.

Any person or organization depends ultimately on public approval, and is therefore faced with the problem of engineering the public's consent to a program or goal.

Steve Jobs and Apple taught us that profit is not the ultimate goal, but rather a consequence of something greater.

I was born in a slum, but the slum wasn't born in me.

A nation becomes what its young people read in their youth. Its ideals are fashioned then, its goals strongly determined.

I just wanna affect the culture and wanna be able to support young people with goals that aren't just limited to rapping and producing.

It is possible to lead astray an entire generation, to strike it blind, to drive it insane, to direct it towards a false goal. Napoleon proved this.

One of my goals is to inspire everyone I meet to become a better person.

Neil Young is the prime example, the grand goal, if you will. He's still shredding, and he never lost his credibility.

The goal of social media is to turn customers into a volunteer marketing army

My goal is that after I am dead and gone, I want people to remember me for the person I am.

Leadership is the ability to influence people and motivate them to do what needs to be done to accomplish a goal, vision, or mission.