Quotes About Impact

The Population Reference Bureau predicts that the world's total population will double to 7,000,000,000 before the year 2000. I suppose they will all want dignity, I said.

You touch the world even if you do not want it to touch you. -Leona Montgomery

You are not here to try to get the world to be just as you want it. You are here to create the world around you that you choose.

I believe that if you want to go make your mark on the world you've got to go out and do it. Don't be shy, be adventurous.

I've never read a political poem that's accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen, but rarely what the poet wants.

I was uncomfortable with smoking too much because a lot of young kids watch and I didn't want to make that cool.

Obviously when you're making music, you want it to get out to as many people as possible. You want to reach as many people as you can.

Gary Bauer has done great things, ... I want to promise you again, you may agree with me, you may disagree with me, but I will do great things.

If you have a great message but no great way to entertain, people won't want to hear it.

When I get to the end of my life, I want to be able to look back and know that my being here made things better - Daphne

My youth coach told me he'd got these two great 15-year-olds. I told him I don't want to know, because by the time they're 18 I'll be dead.

Everyone wants to feel that they matter.

Each day we choose to live the legacy we want to leave.

Seeing results flow from my gifts is my greatest pleasure as a philanthropist - whether exonerating a jailed innocent or completing a Frank Gehry building. I want to enjoy my philanthropy.

There is nothing more dangerous than a philosopher who wants to change the world

I think that most great artists who are extremely known, as I am, would intimidate a lot of people. I don't want to do that to people, but I know I do.

God doesn't want to change the world without you.

We're letting [technology] take us places that we don't want to go.

When you're dealing with something sensitive, which is about culture, and its effect on a generation, you don't want any stones not to be turned over.

If you have an effect that nobody can replicate, then your phenomenon fades away. So if you want to to have a legacy, then you jolly well better have an effect that replicates.

You can't say yes to every role and you have to make people miss you. I don't want people to get sick of me.

Living is giving....If you spend your money on yourself, you are just surviving. But if you want your life to count, if you want to really live - give.

Sometimes a movie knows you're watching it. It knows how to hold and keep you, how, when it's over, to make you want it all over again.

A Status symbol is an instrument you clash when you want someone to know you are there.