Quotes About Impact

Banning plastic bags so that people use paper bags or imported reusable bags that will end up in local landfills soon thereafter is not the only solution to our plastic bag challenge.

How do we change as a culture, and how do we each individually take responsibility for the one piece of the solution that we are in charge of, and that is our own behavior?

Social enterprise is an effective solution for social problems.

The American people will eventually get hurt by this accumulated deficit. That's the problem. We have too much deficit. We have to find a solution.

People will often take an interesting experimental study which has been done in the world, perhaps at small scale, and then it's touted as some big solution.

You're part of the problem or the solution. Solution means, in my opinion, to be taking extra time and energy in trying to give back to the world.

I'm very happy about 'Last Call At The Oasis.' I hope it's a wake up call... we caused the problem, but we can be the solution.

We all raise awareness and talk about making India a safe place for women, but at some point in time, I just feel that it is not creating a big impact. There needs to be some solution.

No single institution or effort can effectively create solutions for societal problems.

People in my world can be disdainful of political and social problems and solutions. But we're never going to stop needing those.

People who imagine and implement solutions to challenges in their own lives, in their communities, in our country and in our world have always inspired me.

What inspires me most are people who imagine and implement solutions to challenges in their own lives, in their communities, in our country and around the world.

The Fourth Industrial Revolution does not just entail risks: it also brings solutions to humanitarian problems.

We should not be focusing on quick solutions. The really important concern for policymakers everywhere is to prevent disasters - that is, the outlier events that matter the most.

As fears about the energy and environmental crises reach a fever pitch, we're all searching for solutions. And one possibility is that we could fix everything if we'd just shrink our population back down to about 2 billion people - which would put us roughly where we were at 80 years ago.

When I think about developing solutions, I think about how we can use technology to make a difference.

When I originally went into government early in my career, it was because I was interested in finding ways to help people by finding policy solutions that would help people. And what's amazing about Facebook is that we're able to use our platform to help people, too.

The creative capacity of the private sector should be harnessed to develop new and more effective ways to deliver humanitarian solutions.

America's reputation is based on its ability to deliver the world big, Earth-changing solutions.

If I lose the ball I cause the team a problem. I am here to provide solutions.

I realized doing this work, identifying either issues or challenges or thinking about opportunities to actually impact people's lives, I could actually make things better, and bringing people around the table for solutions was something I liked doing and was actually something I was able to do fairly well.

I think that passion is the secret ingredient that drives hard work and excellence. My passion is to serve the public: to be in the arena of public policy, to have the opportunity to solve problems for our country, to be in a position where I can make a difference.

Technology will definitely solve all our problems, but in the process it will create brand new ones. But that's O.K. because the most you can expect from life is to get to solve better and better problems.

There is this notion that is quite popular in the environmental scene that every little bit helps, or 'Think global, act local.' I disagree with that. I think you have to start with how big the solution needs to be to solve the problem and then reason backward from there.