Quotes About Impact

We become like the five people we spend most of our time with; Oh, we've got to be picky, and you might have to fire a few people who don't belong in that inner circle because they can't help you be your best and further your purpose.

No matter what set she's been on over the last 12 years, my mother always finds a way to get in the way. Not in a bad way. Like, she once got caught on a law show I did called 'Philly' trying to take a picture - she was caught on-camera in the background. She does things like this.

The picture of Prince Charles meeting Gerry Adams is inexpressibly sad.

Just because you see pictures of glaciers falling into the ocean doesn't mean anything bad is happening. This is something that happens all the time. It's part of the natural cycle of things. We know from measurements that glaciers have been melting for 200 years at least.

It's too bad for us 'literary' enthusiasts, but it's the truth nevertheless - pictures tell any story more effectively than words.

I am interested in government spend quality, as it accounts for the biggest chunk of the social spending pie. Hundreds of foundations put together cannot equal what the government can spend.

If you remain open to great directors who look like you, who know what they're doing and are making impactful films that are destroying these 'blockbuster films,' you can do okay, and everybody can get more of a piece of the pie. But you've got to be open and brave.

The most helpful piece of advice that I could give to anybody is to select a charity, or create a charity, that you really feel passionate about and if you do, don't give up.

Hitting Ali in the body or on the arms was like hitting a piece of cement.

The earth is one big interconnected entity. If you hurt a piece, you hurt the whole. If you hurt the people, you hurt the environment.

It looks like you can write a minimalist piece without much bleeding. And you can. But not a good one.

The piece that had a large influence on me was Turangalila.

Football is a bit like chess: it's not just the piece being moved that matters; it's also the effect that move has on all the other pieces.

It is easier to achieve a desired result in short pieces.

A good writer cannot avoid having social consciousness. I don't mean this about small pieces of writing, but about a big book. If it's a big book, there has to be more than one undertow.

It is the little things that pierce and burn and prick for years to come.

It was different to what everyone else was doing. It was very hard to pigeonhole The Cranberries. And we were just huge; it was just sensational.

One of my biggest inspirations was Alanis Morissette's 'Jagged Little Pill.'

My 3-year-old daughter told my wife she doesn't think I'm a pilot anymore because I don't fly. That was crushing.

Kids know me from their Grease DVD, so they instantly respond. You can hear a pin drop when I do my old songs.

Even at 30 or 40, if something doesn't do well, it still hurts. If I pinch someone, the pain is going to be the same whether the person is young or old.

Janet Carroll and Robert Pine, Chris Pine's dad, were in my first play, and they were so astonishingly good, I felt it raised my game instantly.

The reason I got into music was obviously because of bands like The Beatles and Pink Floyd, things like that.

It's not about being the biggest or the place with the most pins in a map. We want to be the most influential. We talk about trying to build the most influential agency in the world.