Quotes About Impact

I've said the election of Obama has made the hustler less relevant. People took it in a way that I was almost dismissing what I am. And I was like, 'No, it's a good thing!'

I think the hearing loss started with 'Bonanza.' Sometimes the director would put us in a box canyon and have us fire our guns. The sound would really reverberate in a box canyon. It took me a long time to realize what was coming on me.

When I was around 11, my dad took me to see Santana live, and then I got 'Sacred Fire,' and everything changed for me.

I've rung my bells so many times, especially back in the day when chair shots to the head were legal. My goodness, I took so many of those.

MTV made a huge impact. Heavy rotation took you from selling 1m albums to 20m albums, and that meant a lot of dough.

The Stinkface made a lot of people famous. If you made the Stinkface list, you were pretty much famous. I knew once Vince McMahon took the Stinkface, everybody else was gonna line up for the Stinkface, and that's exactly what happened.

I was the one who took football off the back pages and put it on to page one.

Prostate cancer has taken a lot from me. First it took my grandfather and then my dad.

People talk about the hair dryer and all this with Sir Alex Ferguson. What was really great about him, whatever happened in a game, he would spend whatever minutes it took him to get this out of this system and say whatever needed to be said. Once he said, 'Get your bath,' that was it. We knew that it would never return.

Social media is an amazing tool, but it's really the face-to-face interaction that makes a long-term impact.

The idea of prosthetics is a tool. Most people's cell phones are prosthetics. If you leave your cell phone at home, you feel impacted by not having it. It's an important part of your daily function and what you can do in a day.

AI is a tool. The choice about how it gets deployed is ours.

I think if you can affect somebody's life with one song, that's such a powerful tool to reach millions of people on so many different levels.

Accents can be a great tool to tell a story - but if you do it wrong, it pulls you right out of the movie.

It's hard to think of any tool, any instrument, any object in history with which so many developed so close a relationship so quickly as we have with our phones.

I think social media is a great tool if you use it the right way.

At a relatively early age, I began to believe that building a business was perhaps the greatest opportunity for making an impact, because it's a tool for making a change in the world.

It's really idealistic and hippy-dippy but I do believe film is a really powerful tool for reaching people.

I could do a whole talk on the question of is AI dangerous.' My response is that AI is not going to exterminate us. It's a tool that's going to empower us.

Public misbehavior by the famous is a powerful teaching tool.

Film can be a tool for change; it can start a debate.

I think comedy does have that powerful thing that doesn't seem too preachy because you're also making people laugh, so it's really kind of a good tool for messaging.

I've always thought of acting as a tool to change society. I watch a lot of actors and I see panic in their eyes because they don't know why they act and I know why I act. Whether I'm a good or a bad actor, I know why I do it.

My dad taught me that language was a powerful tool.