Quotes About Impact

Your first job can set the trajectory for the rest of your career.

I saw many people who had advanced heart disease and I was so frustrated because I knew if they just knew how to do the right thing, simple lifestyle and diet steps, that the entire trajectory of their life and health would have been different.

As a filmmaker I have changed, yes. I seem to have crossed a line and that journey, trajectory change is more apparent. I'd say, what changed dramatically in me as a filmmaker is the fact that now, it is about why am I making the film, what is this supposed to mean to people. Earlier, it was more about entertaining or engaging them.

I believe that when people experience an event as a community, it can transcend and change people's lives.

I think there are a lot of things that soccer does in the communities that transcend the soccer field.

Before Julius Erving, being a stylish basketball player meant 13 ounces of pomade in your hair and color coordinating the belt in your shorts with your canvas sneakers. Dr. J was a transcendent figure athletically, but he also changed the aesthetics of the sport.

Despite fearful rhetoric to the contrary, terrorism is not a transcendent threat. A terrorist attack cannot possibly destroy our country's way of life; it's only our reaction to that attack that can do that kind of damage.

I think a great athlete transcends eras.

Sports is something that transcends generations, transcends backgrounds, cultures, races. And so the power of sports is real.

The pride people take in their work transcends to their homes, their education, families and communities.

I think, 'How could anybody mock a good pop song?' It is timeless; it transcends barriers; it breaks down every single type of social barrier that you can possibly have. It can deal with the most difficult subjects, even if it abstracts the subject matter.

I think the tone that the head coach sets transcends to the team.

A whole film is just about arriving at a moment where you hopefully transfer some feeling to the audience.

If I can really sustain myself and become a powerful entity on the internet, it'll transfer into real life. So right now I'm putting everything into the net.

One question you ask as a writer or any kind of artist when you start making something is, 'Does this have reason to exist in the world?' And you're reassured when you get little confirmations that people are pleased it did exist - whether they buy a ticket, whether it gets good reviews, whether it transfers.

The quicker we can transfer our online connections to offline ones, the more meaningful social media becomes; rather than just leaving them there and chatting to people. So I really believe in the transfer of online to offline and I think that can make a huge impact.

Changing your perspectives will not only transform you but also the whole world.

We recognize and truly believe that women's stories have the power to transform the world.

A powerful performance will transform everyone in the room.

One out of four hundred and thirty-five members of the House is not going to transform the culture of the institution, but we've got to start somewhere.

We are going to transform Britain's rail system from the worst in the world to the best. If you can do a few things like that, when the body gives out, you can say you've lived a good life.

No matter what happens in a child's home, no matter what other social and economic factors may impede a child, there's no question in my mind that a first-rate school can transform almost everything.

It only takes a handful of sizeable companies to reach a tipping point and to transform markets.

Ideas have consequences that can transform society.