Quotes About Impact

There's nothing I'm doing to my body that a regular person is not doing to theirs outside of just running into somebody at full speed.

In the immediate postwar years, the whole of Europe was in a recession. So first of all, it helped us step out of a recession; it gave a certain amount of speed to the economy. But that was the first step.

I'm trying to look at many, many things in modern life that I believe are going faster, and I'm trying to look at why they're going faster and what effect they have on us. We all know about FedEx and instant pudding, but it doesn't mean we've looked at all the consequences of our desire for speed.

Boxing is a great example of it, but in football, sometimes you're taking greater hits than boxers. When you have one man going full speed against another man, and those heads are colliding, it's just the fact of science you're going to have results.

I'm astonished at the speed of social media as it can get things done really fast.

Nobody would be killed on the roads if the speed limit were 10 miles an hour.

If Al Gore invented the Internet, I invented spell check.

I don't even know how to spell 'legacy!'

I like emotions, but I really don't like sentimentality, and I don't like when things break their spell.

Aaron Spelling went further than anyone has ever gone for television.

When cattle ranchers clear rain forests to raise beef to sell to fast-food chains that make hamburgers to sell to Americans, who have the highest rate of heart disease in the world (and spend the most money per GNP on health care), we can say easily that business is no longer developing the world. We have become its predator.

The competition between me and Bill Gates, probably: Who can spend money more effectively that can do better philanthropy.

Many times, we spend so much time on policy, but we don't explain how the policy affects and makes the heart even grow bigger. And I think that's a place that we have to look inside.

The most impactful dollars that Australia can spend are actually what goes to help the poorest.

I spend most of my life feeling like I've been shot out of a cannon.

My problem was my inability to spend much time at home. I thought my family was secure, so I went running around everyplace else. I guess I had more of an effect on other people's kids than I did my own.

I am only here on this earth for a short period of time, like the rest of the country and citizens, and I want the time that I spend here on earth to matter.

When people are around us, they should leave better off than they were previously. Rather than feeling discouraged or defeated, people should feel challenged and inspired after spending any time with you and me.

Infrastructure spending does not create immediate jobs, and more than half of those jobs will pull from the pool of the already employed.

If I'm spending time on something, I may as well do good as opposed to average.

I'd never played a character as long as I played Poussey. Spending time with her, so much time embodying that character, it was so - and still is and always will be - so special to me and a part of who I am.

I firmly believe that philanthropy is most effective and outcome-oriented when you ensure that your pledge actually gets spent.

It's amazing what a little money can do when it's spent on the right reason.

If the amount of hours spent on FarmVille were spent on actual farming, imagine what we could achieve.