Quotes About Impact

Looting has an immense impact on our ability to understand our global cultural heritage; once these objects are gone, so too is our chance of piecing together humanity's shared story.

People can just put their cash away and continue to make money and never give back because they just do not care, but I immediately felt obligated to use my influence for good things.

It seems to me that it's every man's obligation to make what contribution he can. You live each day as best you can. That, to me, is what makes life interesting.

Hollywood has an obligation to watch what they put out there. Kids do imitate what they see - good or bad.

I believe the artist has an obligation to society.

If you have an opportunity to help others or incite change, it feels like a moral obligation to do so.

My obligation is to the movie audiences.

I never sat down and said, 'Now I must make a contribution, that one person can make a difference.' But I felt I was in a position where I could contribute. I never thought of it in the light of history or my brothers. I just felt I had an obligation.

If you have the good fortune of having money, it's almost an obligation to think creatively of ways of helping other people. But it shouldn't be in a haphazard way. You need a structure, a formula, so you don't give to everything.

The players before me got this TV revenue so high that I can make money to support my family forever, and I feel like it's an obligation for us to leave the game better than when we first got it, for the future.

Sports have an obligation to step up and make a difference.

I believe that we do have an obligation to leave the world a better place than we found it.

I believe when the world faces a crisis, businesses and sports have an obligation to step up and make a difference.

I'm particularly interested in the public role that all buildings play. I believe that we architects should try to go beyond our basic obligations to the public, and our opportunities to do so are many.

Those who try to obliterate the past are injuring the present.

I know the first time I see a 'Goddess Mode' cosplayer I'm going to cry in such a loud, obnoxious way that it'll be audible from space.

I don't want to sound obnoxious, but I like to think I brought it another step. I was able to bring people who were casually interested in boxing together.

I want my books to sell, to be read. I'm not interested in being obscure.

At the end of the day, I would like to have the farthest reach in terms of being able to communicate to as many people as possible. So it's not that I enjoy being obscure; it's that I sonically don't want to be situated here or there.

I think I would like the sort of job where you can work away in obscurity to try and improve things, without being caught up in the political maelstrom.

To merely observe your culture without contributing to it seems very close to existing as a ghost.

The greenhouse effect is something you can observe experimentally - and most people have observed the greenhouse effect themselves, in greenhouses. Yes?

Having come from the U.S. and observed the way the health care system works there, we definitely felt that we could do something in India.

Over the years, from serving in the CIA to sitting on non-profit boards, I have observed first-hand what the addition of even one woman to a meeting or to a decision-making body can do. Put simply, in very many instances, group dynamics improve markedly.