Quotes About Impact

I have observed and taken part in some mental health first aid training, and I have met many mental health first aiders, and I am convinced that even a few hours' training can make a real difference.

I'm obsessed with being able to dictate energy in a room.

Every single band in the world has these gigantic songs that people are obsessed with.

I am not sure why, but I have been obsessed by the Atom Bomb ever since it first happened.

The most influential thing was the two Chris Rock specials that came out when I was in high school. I was obsessed with that stuff.

The ways in which I was obsessed with Gary Payton and Shawn Kemp 20 years ago is completely replicated by my daughters' and my crush on Marshawn Lynch and Richard Sherman now.

I don't know if you have ever been the object of someone's obsession - but if it's not of your desire, it is horrible. It is really awful.

I think if someone has a gaming obsession, 'Ultima' became mine. I would say no other series ingrained itself in how I want to make games or what I want them to be more than 'Ultima' did.

With nice words, we never obtained anything.

It looks to me to be obvious that the whole world cannot eat an American diet.

Fame in itself is, you know... It involves a whole discussion on just that word, 'fame.' It's a power; it's another degree of power, to be famous. I think it's obvious: you have more influence the more well-known you are. And, hopefully, it's righteously used.

Mother, sister, daughter, wife, cousins - they are a part of your everyday life. You interact with them, communicate, altercate and that they would have an influence on your everyday life is obvious.

People were getting sick. It seemed, at least to me when I started looking at the information, looking at the documents, that this was pretty obvious, what was going on, and if other people could see what we were seeing, they would agree: this is obvious and it needs to stop.

Obviously we were having an effect, because all these people were clamouring to meet us. Like Muhammad Ali, for instance.

It's obviously nice to contribute.

Mr. Chairman, obviously a $60 million cut in the National Endowment for the Arts would be a disaster.

Obviously, all of us have been influenced by those around us.

A lecture is an occasion when you numb one end to benefit the other.

There's the occasional script that just hammers you, that you can't shower off.

If I were to die today, I would be nervous about what people would say at my funeral. I would be happy if they said things like, 'He was a nice guy' or, 'He was occasionally decent' or, 'Mike wasn't as bad as a lot of people.'

I did this movie, 'A Walk Among the Tombstones' - I truly play a horrible, horrible individual in that - and I would occasionally go to the theater and watch what people's responses were, and they would laugh. He makes jokes, and people would respond to him in a human way. Then I've really done my job if I've humanized a really horrible person.

Meeting Mike Nichols was a sort of lifetime occupation.

As the Occupy Movement demonstrated, it's tough to change anything when you're talking about everything.

Poems should be like pins which prick the skin of boredom and leave a glow equal in its pride to the gate of the sadist who stuck the pin and walked away