Quotes About Impact

I get great satisfaction nowadays when people come up and say 'I used to hate you when I was little' or 'you used to make me mad' - well that was the desired effect.

I want to continue to do some great work. I'm nowhere close to where I want to be. I'm a diverse person who's trying to use his art to make the world better.

When you go out on loan it's not the glitz and glamour, there's nowhere near the amount of money there is at the top level. People's livelihoods are on the line, mortgages and families. You are making decisions which can affect people.

The greatest compliment that anyone can pay me is that after I say something, they remember it. I'll go over a piece of copy until I've gotten the essence of what the writer had in mind - every nuance.

Nuclear holocaust might eliminate the Internet.

Chemical and biological attacks are scary and will kill a lot of people but don't rise to the level of nuclear.

Nuclear accidents anywhere can affect people everywhere.

The challenge lies in the fact that the planet has limited time. Be it climate change or nuclear fallout, there is very little time. You have to pick your cause.

You travel around the world, once you travel around a few times, you're kind of numb to the fact of what you've accomplished until years later.

Number one - and I want you to emblaze this on your brain - you only have one chance to make a first impression.

The number of elements that have to go into a hit would break a computer down. the right season for that play, the right historical moment, the right tonality.

If someone does something in an entertainment/pop ambience, that person becomes someone who has an impact on the conduct and attitude of a huge number of people who peripherally come in contact with them.

Anyway, all these computers and digital gadgets are no good. They just fill your head with numbers and that can't be good for you.

If Hello' had been my debut film, the numbers would have played out differently.

Fame is fleeting. My numbers mean more to me than my name.

There are brands out there in the world that have an incredible influence on the culture. Numerous ones are badly done.

When people hear the name Gregory Isaacs, I want dem to think of 'Night Nurse' and 'Red Rose For Gregory' and 'The Cool Ruler.' I love it when somebody comes up to me and say, 'I love your songs.'

Anybody who fights for human rights or to make this world a better place. Nurses, doctors, teachers: these are the people who deserve the credit these days.

Politicians aren't leading us. Nurses are. Doctors are. Teachers are. Activists are.

I am fairly certain that our budget deficit was not caused by children with autism or 90-year-old grannies in nursing homes, so why take it out on them by cutting services?

It is important to nurture any new ideas and initiatives which can make a difference for Africa.

I got into television because I hated it so. I thought, there's some way of using this fabulous instrument to be of nurture to those who would watch and listen.

I'm very much a person of nurture over nature. When the world is not nurturing, it can really change a man.

I could write and help a lot of kids, or teach and help a few and go nuts.