Quotes About Impact

The first-person shooter genre owes itself to 'Duke Nukem.'

As a business owner, I understand the importance of prioritizing your bottom line, but it's equally as important to consider how you can succeed while also thinking about the long-term impact on the community.

I want Americans to realize that we are the owners of this country, and that one person can make a difference.

I don't care what level you play at, when you've got pace and the level of attacking intent you're going to make an impact.

Pacing has become more important than ever, largely because of other media. I've always tried to start my stories out with a bang, something that will hook their attention.

You know what I find truly amazing? I haven't had a hit record since the mid-'80s, and still people show up to pack up the places I'm playing.

I'm ecstatic to be known as pad man, as it makes a difference to women's lives.

Most of the hits I take come on top of the shoulder pads.

One thing I learned working at magazines was that if you couldn't get people to look at a page or a cover, then you were fired. It was all about how you create arresting works, and by arresting I mean stop people, even for a nano-second.

I'm not sure that the benefit - as a writer and as a citizen - that I would get from reading at least the front page of the Times every day or every other day would outweigh the depression.

I would say seeing the original Yardbirds with Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page at the old Fillmore was a pretty powerful influence on me.

Words on the page don't have the same impact as somebody saying the words to you.

My work should speak, not being spotted on Page 3.

If a scene is longer than three pages, it better be for a good reason.

I'm scattered, and then that last hundred pages, bam, I'm a laser.

It has been a pleasure being in the same era. I mean, the guy's last name is Bolt, and he's the fastest man ever. You can't write a story like that, and so to be in the pages in there is nice.

I want to write books that keep people up at night, where they cry through the first forty pages and keep reading anyway.

I think when dance is mediocre, it's painful. But when dance is really impressive, it destroys.

I've found during the times when I've gone through several rounds of auditions that they have really taken pains to consider me, and that makes an enormous difference.

To be able to finish opportunities that I do get in the paint, that makes a difference.

I have painted my family so frequently because they are the one who really affect me the most.

The chemistry of a pair on screen is known only when the audience reacts to it.

When you're buying a pair of TOMS, if you don't feel like you're part of a community, then I've failed.

Whether I'm in a ball gown or a pair of jeans, it's not about me or what I'm wearing; it's about what I can be doing to support and empower others going forward.