Quotes About Impact

You know, the loudest stadium I've ever played in was 45,000 people at War Memorial Stadium in Little Rock, Arkansas. The entire thing is concrete. It's like dropping a ball bearing in your neighbor's basement.

I don't want to bring my kid to a stadium and sit next to somebody who is shouting racist chants, because it's going to make kids think that it's okay to do it. It's not only affecting players, but it is affecting kids that are growing up now, and are going to be bringing their kids in future.

Whitaker is nothing without me. He can't fill an arena or stadium. He's nobody.

First impressions are huge, especially with the coaching staff.

By making a company successful, you can provide more employment, and, if you treat your staff well, then your business itself becomes a charity.

At the minor-league and major-league level, you know how important your coaching staff is, but in a big market it becomes absolutely huge.

One of my staff members told me that after the release of the film, whenever a custodial death is reported, people say - 'Another 'Visaranai.' This is the kind of change that I am looking for; it should hit you hard.

The amount of staff we have in academies is... I've never seen anything like it. It's good to take care of the players but sometimes I get confused by the number of people who have an impact on one kid - we're talking 100 people or more. It's quite a heavy load.

If you go on stage with the wrong attitude, or something in your performance is off, you can lose an audience in the first minute. That first minute is crucial.

To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.

We live in a stage of politics, where legislators seem to regard the passage of laws as much more important than the results of their enforcement.

If you are ever on stage, and it feels as though the audience is not laughing at the right points or are not quite as engaged as you'd hope, you have to remember there is always somebody who might be falling in love with this world and having an epiphany. I was that person.

What I learned then was there is a certain power in a three piece band. The more people you put on that stage, the more diluted it becomes.

On stage, we just want to generate hysteria. We don't care about looking cool or posing.

I became active in politics because I saw the possibility, if we all sat back and did nothing, of a world in which there would no longer be any stages for actors to act on.

We've seen more reform in the last year than we've seen in decades, and we haven't spent a dime yet. It's staggering how the Recovery Act is driving change.

I don't want to write books that are intellectually staggering if nobody's going to read them.

I may have my personal political thing, but we never wanted it to stain the show.

I think lighting is a reflection of what is at stake emotionally in a movie.

Shouldn't you put the same amount of effort into your giving as you might for your for-profit investments? After all, philanthropy is an investment, and one in which lives - not profits - are at stake.

I contribute in many different ways to the team. I've played a hell of a lot of games in my career, and you can stake any argument on the stats.

If you individualize an audience, it helps up the stakes of your responsibility to that audience.

Everybody who's been fired has heard before about the problems they have. They just don't know it's that serious. Once you know what the stakes are, you become more serious.

As we know all too well, our early years are formative in ways it can takes us a lifetime to grasp. Those years leave deep marks; in that way, the stakes of childhood are inherently very high.