Quotes About Impact

When you have a platform and people listen, it's very important what you chose to say.

Chris Jericho is a guy who I grew up really appreciating what he did in the ring.

Chris didn't only leave a legacy of work. He left a legacy of love.

I want to know that I have affected people for eternity. I believe I am. I believe once someone knows Christ as their personal savior, I've affected eternity. I matter 10 billion years from now.

If the Christians who were alive in the 1770s behaved and believed like the Christians of today, there wouldn't be an America as we know it.

I know CEOs, and they get sick when they have to lay people off, especially around Christmas.

It is important for American congregations to hold their churches accountable for what their money does in Africa.

I don't want all of American cinema to be big cartoons that are just made to be digested by the entire world.

I want to do stories that really move me, that have an audience, and at the end of the day, I want people to feel something when they walk out of the cinema.

I didn't want to go down the route of spending a year of my life making a movie that would never be seen. I may as well go down a route making a film that a lot of people will see, which is the whole idea behind cinema.

What I've learned as we've gotten bigger is that it's really, really important for us to take all the opportunities to tell our story, because as we grow and have a bigger impact on cities, if we don't tell our story, somebody else will.

Every citizen is responsible for the society in which we are living.

We just have to be careful of our actions as world citizens.

It's the most rewarding thing to be a civil servant.

I don't think the riots derailed the civil rights movement.

Martha Stewart contributes more to our civility than the Baptist church.

A civilization which has taken over the world cannot be said to be dying.

It's quite possible that the end of us will not be the end of the Earth. Even if we really screw things up and things go badly for us and our civilization, the Earth is pretty resilient.

Say what you want about superhero movies and how much they make and how much they hurt other movies. I don't buy any of it. I just think they're so good.

When we started 'Arrow,' there weren't really a lot of superhero shows in general. And it was a burden on us because it was, 'Are you going to fail or succeed?' And now they're everywhere.

Most superheroes are young or in their 20s, and as you can see with Black Lightning, he's in his mid-40s and he has a family, so that affects you a bit differently as opposed to being a young, single superhero.

Pretensions to moral superiority are devastatingly destructive.

I'm not a superman with a cape, I'm only a basketball player for the Celtics. But if I can make one child smile, I've done my job.

I think the very simplest way to show Superman's power is to have him punch someone that's powerful.