Quotes About Impact

There are people who have tremendously important things to say, but they say it so poorly that nobody would ever want to read it.

When you scratch the surface, every one of us has something that we deeply want to contribute to the world. All we have to do is step up and do it.

The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die.

I wish to please the people, but I want to make them cry, perhaps. There, I have said it.

Sometimes, when you want to make a difference in a person's life, stay out of it.

Nobody wants to read a 600 page book in which the author is fabulous throughout.

Creative leadership impact increases in your 50's. When I turn 50 I want to say, "Nice start!"

The "Be good" concept also comes up when we design our products. We want them to have positive social effects.

Most black singers like to slow the word down and, and go directly to your heart. They're not interested in your ears, we just want to go directly to your heart.

Painting is just like making an after-dinner speech. If you want to be remembered, say one thing and stop.

If people want me to be their role-model, it would be nice.

I can never get rid of 'The Rifleman,' and I don't want to. It's a good image.

If you have a lot of fans, you have a powerful soapbox, but you still have to have something to say when you're on that soapbox if you want to make a real difference.

You can try to steal the thunder all you want, it just reminds people I'm the lightning. You rumble in the distance. I light up the sky.

Wherever I am in the world I want to be creating new projects and innovations, which are exciting and make a difference to communities.

You make a first impression and people never forget it. If people want to think of me as the wacky 'Juno' lady forever, I could think of worse ways to be labeled.

It's great to be in a film that's able to have people really want to become socially conscious, to walk out of the theatre and want to do something.

People want to join a great story. If you want to lead, tell one with your life.

When the story of these times gets written, we want it to say that we did all we could, and it was more than anyone could have imagined.

I guess what inspires me is when I am watching somebody else do something that really has an impact on me. That inspires me to want to do that in return.

The problem you ultimately want to have, as an entrepreneur, is deciding who to help, not deciding who can help you.

The whole idea is not to figure out what you should do that will matter, but to make each thing you do reflect the values you want, because we don't know what's going to matter in the future

I feel a big obligation to the audience, almost in a moral sense, to say something useful. If I'm going to spend a year of my life on these things, I want something that I feel that strongly about.

It's about bums on seats. If nobody wants to listen to what you are doing, it kind of defeats the purpose really, doesn't it?