Quotes About Impact

If you want to live a long life, focus on making contributions.

I want to put a ding in the universe.

People are terrified of me, and I want them to be.

I want to walk into a room, be it a hospital for the dying or a hospital for the sick children, and feel that I am needed. I want to do, not just to be.

I hated Peter O'Toole. I wanted to kill that guy! When they said he was dead, I was happy. People said, 'Poor Peter O'Toole.' I was happy!

I was thinking I would love to make something that is a successful film that everybody sees, but I wasn't thinking about the actual dollar amount. I just wanted to make a great film that people responded to. That's always a good ambition because you'll never totally hit it.

May we do good everywhere as we have opportunity, and results will not be wanting!

There is nothing quixotic or romantic in wanting to change the world. It is possible. It is the age-old vocation of all humanity.

As we realize that more and more things have global impact, I think we're going to get people increasingly wanting to get away from a purely national interest.

Behavioral psychologists have observed that wanting something has a much stronger emotional impact than the pleasure that comes once you have it, or the memory of having had it.

A writer starts out, I think, wanting to be a transfiguring agent, and ends up usually just making contact, contact with other human beings. This, unsurprisingly, is not enough.

Since 9/11, there has been a huge leap in people wanting to get personally involved in public service and international affairs.

I always saw myself wanting to do something deemed successful and good at the same time.

I started my career wanting to make a 'James Bond' movie, and I couldn't get hired! I made 'The Bourne Identity,' and ultimately the impact of that film was that it changed the 'James Bond' franchise.

When I met Miller, for me it wasn't a question of wanting to meet him because it was Arthur Miller; it was a kind of astonishment that I could meet someone who was so deeply embedded in the psyche of my artistic development.

I think the fact that my parents weren't conventional - especially considering their position - had a big influence on the way that I conduct myself now in design and business. It had a huge impact on my wanting to do something a bit more than just designing a pretty dress and putting it on a runway and making it glamorous.

I don't create from a place of me making art for art's sake, but wanting my work to actually do stuff... tangible things.

Even if you flippin' fries at McDonald's, if you are excellent, everybody wants to be in your line.

Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America - not on the battlefields of Vietnam.

Reconstruction is the great black hole that remains to be filled. Even experts on the Civil War don't really understand its full significance.

What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.

The human voice: It's the instrument we all play. It's the most powerful sound in the world, probably. It's the only one that can start a war or say 'I love you.' And yet many people have the experience that when they speak, people don't listen to them.

War is not cheap, but it's the human cost that's the highest.

News reports don't look at the land that existed before a war and the land that exists after a war. Reporting on war is a snapshot in time.