Quotes About Impact

If you don't exert yourself, or if your exertions don't amount to much of anything, then you might as well not have bothered to have shown up for your existence at all.

cuando te hagas valer a ti mismo y a tu pasado (por no mencionar el futuro), otras personas se sientan motivadas a hacer lo mismo. Así podrás marcar una diferencia duradera e importante en el mundo.

I think every time I go in a game, I have added something positive. I have gotten a rebound or made a defensive play. That is what I try to focus on.

Making something and sending it out into the world and then people not only responding to it but adopting it for their own and making a separate thing for it, that's beautiful. It just shows you how much you can affect other people... the butterfly effect of everything you put out into the world.

I've got a big buzz going on because I'm known and put people to sleep.

If I were to run for Senate, my calculation is, what kind of an impact am I going to have were I to win?

As goes California, so goes the rest of the nation.

It's no mean calling to bring fun into the afternoons of large numbers of people. That, too, is part of my job, and I'm happy to serve when called on.

Stories are really important to people and can really change the way they understand, and even live, their lives. As such, I don't agree much with people who say, 'Calm down, it's just a story.'

For me, even if it is a five-second cameo but one that makes a difference I will do it.

How can you be inspired by Cameron and Miliband? These guys are just drabness personified.

Anyone can make a difference, so you don't have to have it be some huge, global campaign... you can start small, and that's just as important.

I truly feel that being a woman, and particularly a mother, has had a large impact on my campaign.

People spend money on negative campaigning because it works.

The reason why we have so many stars campaigning for politics is that when we senior artistes go to speak to people, they at least listen to some extent.

That's what all of us want, why we're getting involved in so many campaigns - we want to leave football in a better place than when we came into it.

Campaigns end, revolutions endure.

Seeing a player return to campus 20 years later with his family and he tells you, 'I'd never be where I am today without this university and this team.' That's everything. That's why you coach.

Hip-hop is huge in Canada, in Australia - everywhere.

We were interested in making a long career out of this, rather than being 'Canada's Newest Hitmakers.' It seems to work, and it trickles down to every aspect of the band.

I love Canadians. I think we make an impact around the world just when people meet us, and whenever I meet another Canadian, I see it as well.

I am really proud of what I have done for cancer awareness, but do I feel like Bono? No.

When cancer affects somebody in the family, the whole family is affected.

It's hard to pick yourself up and go vote for a candidate if you don't have any sense that that candidate could have an impact on your life.