Quotes About Impact

We have plenty of room for people...in our lives, I mean. Especially the ones who make us be the people we want to be.

The goal isn't innovation. The goal is effectiveness. We strive for innovation because we want to be effective.

Any filmmaker would want to make something that can still be seen without someone saying, "Ugh that was repulsing, offensive, don't bother visiting it 2nd time."

We, as producers, want to tell the best stories. We want to tell the stories that people will talk about.

You set the tone on the set that you want to see in the film.

The goofiness of radicals thinking they have to dress in Guatemalan peasant clothes. The poor don't want you to look like them. They want you to dress in a suit and go get them food and water. Comma.

When you go into public service, you understand you're trading something. You want to feel good about what you do, but you're not going to make what people in private sector make.

Whether I'm making my own record, or playing a guitar part, I want what I do to have an impact.

I think that's something that people feel that I do really well; I don't mind it, because ultimately I think the characters I play move people, and who wouldn't want to move people?

In economics, you always want to ask 'And then what?'

Our glorification of violence is ripping society apart. I don't want my children exposed to it.

Dare to tell the smallest of stories if you want to generate large emotions.

I have only one life, so I want to make sure it's a good one.

I must analyze, from what I do now, what will be the impact two or three or five years in the future. What is the statement I want to make?

When I'm on a red carpet I want somebody to feel something when they look at what I'm wearing, when they look at the entire ensemble, whether it be nostalgia or excitement, you know?

I'm thinking of doing a marital comedy for one of the studios, but I want it to be so painful that it'll have a profound effect on married couples who see it together.

From what might appear to you to be small choices, the Lord will lead you to the happiness you want. Through your choices He will be able to bless countless others.

I think people do want change, but we want to make sure that the change will actually help people. And that's why I reject the change agenda that Donald Trump has.

Let's have Michael Bloomberg run the whole thing. Did a great job on this stuff in New York. If you want to spend at least what we already are on the poor but actually get results, go for it!

And not go to things that sound good that really did not have the kind of impact that we would want. Who disagrees with keeping neighborhoods safe?

When people stop me in the street, and I can see they want to tell me more than they want the selfie, they want to tell me what it means to them, and that means a lot to me.

One thing that I love about World Vision is every place they go, they go in with an exit plan, they don't want people dependent on them.

When I finish a song, I never feel like I want to restrict its life. I feel that once I've done something, it's out. It's in people's ears, cars, headphones. It has its own journey.

My philosophy: find what it is you want to say, walk in the room, say it, and get the hell out.