Quotes About Impact

When a restaurant is too popular, it starts to harm the reason you are there.

Moonshot thinking starts with picking a big problem: something huge, long existing, or on a global scale.

Every role I've played, that could've happened. It's nice, it happens, but it is rather disconcerting when a young child comes up to at the airport and starts doing your lines, it happens.

I think life after death is in the mind of the people around you. It's what's left in this world in the memory of others, but when the flesh starts rotting, the spirit disappears.

A day-time song like 'Word Starts Attack,' I want to make your heart blow up and make you want to punch the air with your fist. It can't be ponderous.

I'm working in this very complex set of issues having to do with who we are as a species and how much we can do to the Earth before it starts to buckle under. My work can easily read as an indictment, but I don't see it as that simple a problem.

Now, I don't know whether a film can change the world, but I know that it starts - I know the power of it - I know that it starts people thinking about how to change the world.

The Internet isn't just itself a revolution - it sometimes starts them, too.

The Lean Startup has evolved into a movement that is having a significant impact on how companies are built, funded and scaled.

There are many successful startup funders who are looking for ways to make a difference in the world.

I like the idea that I can make a big difference to a startup in a short period of time.

Slow investing can have the same impact on startups that slow food has had on cuisine: good things come to those who wait.

I agree with Kathi Zellweger that sanctions mostly punish the ordinary people who live at the edge of starvation.

The world is starving for original and decisive leadership.

It's one thing to see the suffering and dying on the television screen and quite another to be there and experience it. You cannot look into the eyes of a starving child and yourself remain the same.

People get numbed when they see picture after picture, year in and year out, of people starving.

I remember when I was younger, and in school, our teachers showed us films of plastic in the ocean, starving polar bears and so on. I cried through all the movies. My classmates were concerned when they watched the film, but when it stopped, they started thinking about other things. I couldn't do that. Those pictures were stuck in my head.

But at the end of the day, I want people to say that I played a major role in restoring people's confidence in the ability of state government to be on their side, to fight for them, and again - I'll say it again - to get things done.

The last issue I remember where a president was involved was in the capital punishment of 1993 blasts convict Yaqub Memon. Otherwise, in your life, in my life, how does a president make a difference? Has a president ever stated his point of view on anything?

We're supposed to be an example of freedom, and if we are doing things that are injustice to people, then what is our statement?

A meaningless statement remains meaningless no matter how often it's heard.

If I am going to do something outside of Lady Antebellum, it's got to make a statement. Otherwise, why do it?

That's kind of the mission statement for the label: to try to do great music that touches people's hearts.

People lead complicated lives and aren't hanging on your every word or the company mission statement. You have to become a broken record of your expectations of the organization and show people why it is relevant and how it works in specific ways.