Quotes About Impact

'Black Love' made my mama cry, so this is one of those song songs. When I hear it, it makes my heart do some things.

I just want to be like a good example to somebody in the future.

Every job you do, somebody's looking at it. You're leaving an impression on somebody. What is going to be your footprint?

If you want what you're saying heard, then take your time and say it so that the listener will actually hear it. You might save somebody's life. Your own, first.

Every day, we hear that somebody got saved to our music from all over the world. The music reaches people. It can encourage them. I feel like I have to do it because there's somebody out there who needs to hear the gospel.

It doesn't matter that millions read as long as you share it with somebody. So I don't really think about readers or editors. You especially should never think of editors - especially never think about reviewers.

I just know that after I help somebody and I see it made a difference, I feel good. I understand that a lot of people aren't as fortunate as others. It's just instinctual for me. I don't know who I picked it up from, but I love to do it a lot.

My daughter will be reading about Pat Buchanan in a history book someday, and I am hanging out fist-bumping with him and joking with him.

If you tell someone, 'Hey, your daughter is going to win a Nobel Prize someday,' it makes it less likely. If you say, 'Your son is in danger of dropping out in the ninth grade,' it could make it more likely.

Let this be our time in history so that someday we can tell our children and grandchildren that we were there, that we changed the course of history for the better.

History may someday record that the Arab awakening that began with the Arab revolt of 1916 against the Ottomans ended about a century later with a whimper.

Every child in every country in every small town should know who I am. There are a handful of people who have achieved that, and two of them are my idols Michael Jackson and Bruce Lee. I'd like to get to that level someday and touch as many lives as I can.

I don't know how much time I have left, and there are certain things I'd like to do. I've got five kids. Kacy, the oldest, I'd like to see her be happy and fulfilled with her dreams. I want Junior, who gave me the two transplants, I want him to find his niche; I know he's going to make a very big impact someday.

Culture is a little like dropping an Alka-Seltzer into a glass - you don't see it, but somehow it does something.

We didn't sell a lot of records, but somehow we left an impression.

A lot of times, the choice of the right song will save a scene. Or there will be a scene that's a little flat and you put in the right song and somehow it just comes alive.

I told my kids when they were little, 'Look, kids, your mother and I are screwing you up somehow. We don't understand how, or we wouldn't do it. But we're parents. So somehow we're damaging you, and I want you to know that early. So just ignore me when I go to that part of my parenting.'

It's those moments, those odd moments that you look for and sometimes by creating this kind of loose atmosphere you find those little moments that somehow mean a lot to an audience when they really register right.

Somehow politicians have become convinced that negative campaigning pays off in elections.

I chose to go to law school because I thought that someday, somehow I'd make a difference.

My hope is that I can somehow raise the level of consciousness about world events.

As a content creator, all you can do is do your best work and then hope that it resonates somehow with an audience.

I hope, when I stop, people will think that somehow I mattered.

I never see myself as the famous person. It never was a part of my life, and I hope this doesn't become the most eminent thing about what I do. I just hope that I'll do things that have meaning for me and for others somehow.