Quotes About Impact

I'm a big believer that it doesn't matter what you call your company, nobody ever notices.

In a film, there are too many characters. If the film is not a hit, then nobody really notices your work.

Absolutely, at a macro-level, I want our firm to be a purpose-led firm. This notion of making an impact that matters, I want that embedded in whatever we do.

To whatever degree you have as a celebrity or notoriety, there are people who see you as an opinion leader.

I don't ever want it to be about me. A friend of mine told me, 'The difference between fame and notoriety is fame is when people know you, and notoriety is when people know your work.' The first one is not respectable, but the second one is, because that leaves a legacy.

This is where my notoriety comes from right now: from action art.

What happens at McGregor's team is that they all talk like Conor McGregor but they don't do what he does. They try to do it. They gain notoriety by talking, and that's a mistake.

You have a billion people who know 'Tribbles' and only half a million who know my novel 'The Man Who Folded Himself,' which is one of my better-known books.

No novel has ever changed anything, as far as I can see.

The short story can't really hold an interesting event. It can't hold a death or a war or a loss of great magnitude the way either a long story or a novel can.

Comics seldom move me the way I would be moved by a novel or movie.

The short story is an imploding universe. It has all the boil of energy inside it. A novel has shrapnel going all over the place. You can have a mistake in a novel. A short story has to be perfect.

I have always loved short stories. I have been at least as influenced by the short story masters as I have been by novelists.

Iris Murdoch did influence my early novels very much, and influence is never entirely good.

I have to say that movies have as much impact on me as music. And that I learned as much about narrative from movies as I did from reading novels, how to arrange stories, how to juxtapose things.

Of all the novels I've written, my favorite is 'Mick Harte Was Here'.

Some critics said, 'Hey, why are you writing historical novels?' I say they're not historical, they're contemporary, because people walking around who lived through this, even a little bit, they carry it inside. The contemporary isn't just what you can see now.

I'm not a novelty act from the '80s in most parts of the world.

If words are doing their job, then their novelty will not be the most noticeable thing about them.

I've always said that the games in November are the ones you remember.

If Obama commits thermonuclear war, I won't have to worry about November and neither will you.

To do your best is no longer good enough. We now have to do the seemingly impossible.

If you want to change a country, you're going to be bumped every now and then.

Where I came from, there's not a reason to have a lot of hope. So much trouble, everywhere. But every now and then, someone makes it out and makes it big, and that person has an impact on a lot of other people.