Quotes About Impact

My first game in Phoenix is something I'll remember forever.

I'm going to put on my gravestone, 'He never owned a cell phone.'

We're all severely addicted to our phones... it's not glamorous or always harrowing even, it's just damaging.

Thinking about it, you know, our phones are everything. They're kind of benign.

We're going to have a generation of kids whose norm will be people just being addicted to their phones. And that's what scares me. The impact on my kids, I think about that daily. Like, what is this doing to me and my family?

Oscars are won with two or three shots only, because if it's really beautifully photographed, you don't really notice it until the astounding moment emphasizes it.

If I hadn't become a photographer, I would have loved to become a doctor. I would have loved to have done something that actually helped people and changed their lives.

I'm not a war photographer. I've always dealt with the consequences of conflict.

But empirically I've come to understand that my photographs really don't do any harm.

I'm really taken by the fact that my photographs live on somebody's wall.

I find it satisfying that what I've done in photography has had so much influence in how people take photographs and what they look at and how they look at things.

Photography can be a powerful instrument for change, and photojournalists can tell stories that make a difference.

I've seen so many photographers rush to do books the minute they start shooting, but one great thing about photography is that the images don't go away, so the more I sit with these images, the more I learn which ones have had the most impact.

On 'Game of Thrones,' I remember shooting in Croatia, and by lunchtime we'd see photos of what we'd shot online and think, 'My God - people really care.'

Well first of all, I think the phrase 'jump the shark' has jumped the shark. I read it in every article and I think that when Fonzie actually jumped the shark, 'Happy Days' was on the air for another five years.

There are so many causes that you care about, but one can't change or take on the world, so one has to really focus on where you feel you can - to use a very overworked phrase - truly try to do something to make a difference.

I am of that '60s generation, and for people of my age, that phrase 'change the world' has a real resonance.

I don't believe in data-driven anything, it's the most stupid phrase. Data should always serve people, people should never serve data.

My brother and I semi-coined a phrase back in 2007, 'Don't Forget to be Awesome.'

I think it would be funny for people to read in obituaries of me that my major contribution to the arts was the popularization of the phrases 'neutral facial expression' and 'screaming in agony.'

If there was no moral evil upon earth, there would be no physical evil.

That's why I named my album 'Finding Forever,' because that's what I was thinking about: What did I want to contribute to this world that would live beyond my physical existence?

The film industry needs to confront the physical footprint of the way films get made.

I think that being happy makes the biggest impact on your physical appearance.