Quotes About Impact

Art should not be a tool of politics, but sometimes art can help make the political climate more open and help society become more free.

Marketing is a very good thing, but it shouldn't control everything. It should be the tool, not that which dictates.

I've always thought that guns are a cowardly tool in the hands of men and women trying to solve problems with each other. And cowardly in the hands of filmmakers. It's taken so lightly in films.

Replacing human vision is more than just a tool: we need to understand how that affects the brain.

Film is a tool of change.

Each new tool we create ends an old relationship with the world and starts a new one. And we're changed by that relationship, inevitably. It changes the way we live, changes our patterns, changes our social organization.

Silence can be a very powerful tool. Sometimes it's more powerful to leave you with nothing.

Basketball to me is more than a passion or a paycheck - it is the tool I use to try to have an impact in the world.

You don't have to be a professional athlete to be heard - the most powerful tool you have is your voice.

Genetic modification is a very powerful tool. But like any powerful tool, when using it, you have to take into account the environmental impact, the food safety aspects and so on. There must be a strong regulatory mechanism.

I truly believe that art can be an agent of change and has been, throughout history, a tool to enlighten the individual and society.

You know the voice of the people is a very, very powerful tool.

Innovation and commerce are as powerful tools for creating social progress as they are for driving technological advancement.

We shape our tools and afterwards our tools shape us.

Good writing is really meaningful, and it's one of the - it's still one of the best tools we have to get and capture people's attention.

It's not that every single thing that happens on Facebook is gonna be good. This is humanity. People use tools for good and bad, but I think that we have a clear responsibility to make sure that the good is amplified and to do everything we can to mitigate the bad.

Using political tools to change social conditions won't work.

Well I think effects are tools.

Tools are not neutral. The computer is not a neutral tool.

Technologists provide tools that can improve people's lives. But I want to be clear that I don't think technology by itself improves people's lives, since often I'm criticized for being too pro-technology. Unless there's commensurate ethical and moral improvements to go along with it, it's for naught.

We've been finding that when you empower engineers, scientists, and coders, they respond by creating new tools to empower physicians, patients, and parents.

City of Los Angeles is my home, and it is my duty to lead by example, contribute all that I can, and help make the world a better place with the tools and resources available to me.

There is no avoiding the realities of the information age. Its effects manifest differently in different sectors, but the drivers of speed and interdependence will impact us all. Organizations that continue to use 20th-century tools in today's complex environment do so at their own peril.

I dislike the phrase 'social media.' 'Social media' is merely a way to describe new tools in an old and narrow paradigm where we measure success by how many people are reached.