Quotes About Impact

Every time a story about me appears in a newspaper, I am injured professionally.

What a great time to be born! What a great time to be alive! Because this generation gets to essentially completely change the world.

Point of sale is where you reach 100% of your audience 100% of the time.

You have to put your body on the line from time to time in order to make a statement or change a law.

I realized that what we do as professions affects how we act as people, big-time.

Each time a high-wage job is lost, a family is turned upside down. And that affects the communities where they live.

Every true man is a cause, a country, and an age; requires infinite spaces and numbers and time fully to accomplish his design;--and posterity seem to follow his steps as a train of clients.

Washington, where an insignificant individual may trespass on a nation's time.

Making you a pioneer only means one thing. You were around at the time.

Giving birth to something that could possibly change the lives of millions of people for possibly decades, hundreds of years, whatever the length of time the run is, is a great feeling.

I'd like to see people, instead of spending so much time on the ethical problem, get after the problems that really affect the people of this country

I'd like to be remembered for music that moves people, that takes them some place else, that means something to them, reminds them of a good time or place, some memory, some positive moment.

I always feel like when I've listened to a great song I know it, 'cuz it's the only time I'll ever get goosebumps or something like that.

The movies people don't talk about or remember after six months' time don't really matter.

A Mozart symphony is very much like a Pixar movie - in the sense that Pixar movies are hugely successful because they operate on several levels at the same time.

You're in the right place at the right time, and you care enough to do what needs to be done. Sometimes that's enough.

You can plant a church and grow a church. That's not that hard to do, but it's harder to be a viable source of transformation in a city or your time or space.

Right after 'Desperate' sold to China, we were the most watched show around the world at the time. That's really something great to be a part of.

We can't see ahead of time what actions are going to be the ones that move history in dramatic ways.

There are persons whose only merit consists in saying and doing stupid things at the right time, and who ruin all if they change their manners.

You can't spend so much time in a place and not carry a bit of it inside you.

If you are an intelligent human being then you are interested in climate change because it's the most important issue of our time.

I am very direct, to the point that I think I might make people uncomfortable! I do not know how not to be direct. I don't think there's time to waste.

Growing up, I didn't know very much about my heritage and the Soviet Union and things of that nature. But when I saw the Soviet Union play hockey for the first time, to me, it was profound.