Quotes About Impact

Human faces shouldn't get lost amid the statistics.

It is now proved beyond doubt that smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.

Statistics do not convey emotion. They shock us for a minute or two, and then we click again.

You can be a great defensive player, and if you don't put up splash statistics, then you're not going to get noticed.

Sometimes when you come in a team where there are a lot of big names - how can I say this? - the name plays more than the statistics.

You want to leave something; you really do. I mean, in the end, statues and all those things, that doesn't mean anything. Leave something that we're all going to benefit from. I think that's what I'd like to do.

I realize how rare it is for someone like me to reach this level. So I'm using my stature in basketball to help other people. I'm more than happy to do it.

Isn't it amazing how celebrity status preempts even the most ingrained hatreds?

To be perfectly honest, I feel I have a duty to use my celebrity status in a positive way.

This was the most important discovery I had ever made in my life. It was a discovery which has irrevocably changed my whole life's direction. It immediately elevated me to the status of one of the world's leading anthropologists.

Despite 'Mod Squad's hit status, I never really made the inner connection that I was contributing.

When you have a celebrity status, people feel inspired by you people. They start to emulate what you are doing. So it inspires me as a celebrity to do something which is for greater good.

Putting a smile on kids, putting a smile on families' faces, changing people's lives with your so-called status and celebrity with your so-called impact, that's reality.

I only want to use my status as a comic actor to bring about a difference to society.

The status quo and the media is doing everything it can to fry children's brains and make them grow up maladjusted.

If you ask why I do what I do - I want to make a difference. I don't just want to maintain the status quo. I want to help people, to work with institutions or create ones when they don't exist.

I'm never satisfied with status quo, and a desire to make a difference is what drives me.

Good or bad, if people still talk about you it means that you have managed to stay relevant.

Characters can stay with you.

You have to embrace the people that love you because you're making a difference in people's lives, and you're making them feel something with your music. That, I think, is the biggest key: to stay grounded and focused and stay true to who you are as a person.

Both my parents were high school teachers, and they were beloved high school teachers, so I constantly meet people through my dad's life where they'd be like, 'Your dad changed my life. He's the reason I became a lawyer. He's the reason I started writing. He's the only reason I stayed in school.'

When I was in my 20s in the 1970s, I read all of Jean Rhys. I have reread very little since because the first impressions were so powerful they have stayed with me.

A lot of stuff people said to me when I was younger subconsciously stayed with me and became my biggest insecurities.

I never got away from the war. Not because I was obsessed with it in those years, but because it was the event of my generation and I started out covering it so I stayed with it.