Quotes About Impact

We only need to walk or bike ten percent of the time to make a significant change in society. That is just two days of walking, bicycling or taking transit per month for a typical commuter.

There are certain times when a certain person says something to me, that will stick with me for a really long time. But I don't remember one person being my idol, or anything like that.

A lot of [bureaucratic] rules were created a long time ago when there were different challenges, and they are now causing negative side effects.

a time has come in our history when what is known has little connection with what is done.

Any time you can create something that gets to a large audience is fantastic. And television still gets you to a huge audience.

By the time we complete the care for the wounded soldiers, $6 trillion, that's $50,000 per American household.

Nobody has time for your priceless prose. Get to the point.

Every time I traveled to a new city, I would learn about local heroes I did not know about, and I would learn about their very impressive contribution to their cities.

There is no post-9/11. Everything from now until the end of time is post-9/11.

I think to put death on screen where it isn't that turns it into comic book time and there I think by desensitizing an audience, you really do open the possibility that someone is going to kill.

The written word has this advantage, that it lasts and can await the time when it is allowed to take effect.

Some things which are remote in space and time from a living creature, especially a human creature, may form his environment even more truly than some of the things close to him.

The first time I ever cried in a movie was in Dead Poet's Society.

Those of us who have been blessed with worldly success have an even greater responsibility to make an impact with our time, talents, and resources.

Changing the world, one exclamation point at a time.

I got to talk to Mel Lewis a lot as a teenager. I think that's what really impacted me the most around that time.

Once you hear something, you can never return to the time before you heard it.

The lives of great men cannot be writ with any tolerable degree of elegance or exactness within a short time after their decease.

Time is short. We have at most a decade to sharply reverse course.

The last time Earth was 1°C warmer than today, sea levels were 20 feet higher.

There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.

Borlaug would be one figure that I think fundamentally changed India, China, all of Southeast Asia, and gave them the time to be able to build on other things.

As President Obama is inaugurated for a second time, the biggest political surprise is that gun control is now key to his political legacy.

It would have hurt no matter who took you the first time.