Quotes About Impact

Every noble life leaves the fibre of it interwoven forever in the work of the world.

I want to do transformational work to actually fix the world.

There are no minor decisions in movie making. Each decision will either contribute to a good piece of work or bring the whole movie crashing down around my head many months later.

The books we enjoy as children stay with us forever -- they have a special impact. Paragraph after paragraph and page after page, the author must deliver his or her best work.

I am proud of my work for my country.

I hope I make films where you walk away . . . with work to do, arguments to have, things to worry about, things to care about. In that sense, I would regard what I do as political.

Most work in macroeconomics in the past 30 years has been useless at best and harmful at worst.

Celebrity doesn't really affect the work. What affects the work is the expectations from the outside. This is what no one understands.

What do you say when someone has truly inspired you? How do you express to an artist how deeply their work has affected you?

The most ineffective workers are systematically moved to the place where they can do the least damage: management.

It is not enough to be a hardworking person. Think: what do you work at?

We are surrounded every day by people who do thankless but important work.

The true value of a leader is not measured by the work they do. A leader's true value is measured by the work they inspire others to do.

I'm not a non-profit person. I think of myself as an entrepreneur who wants to work on global education.

I hope people are reading my work in the future. I hope I have done more than frightened a couple of generations. I hope I've inspired a few people one way or another.

It seems to me that responsiveness is a better source for understanding what moral claims are and how they work upon us.

In all my work, I'm interested in trying to understand the human consequences of government policies.

The only test of work of literature is that it shall please other ages than its own.

Quaternions came from Hamilton after his really good work had been done, and though beautifully ingenious, have been an unmixed evil to those who have touched them in any way.

I do most of my work with kids. They are the very foundation of our future. We are so incredibly disrespectful to them in America in every way because they can't vote.

If you're going to devote the best years of your life to your work, have enough love for yourself and the world around you to work on something that matters to you deeply

If science has no country, the scientist should have one, and ascribe to it the influence which his works may have in this world.

The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.

I want people to be drawn into the space of the work. And a lot of people are like me in that they have relatively short attention spans. So I shoot for the window of opportunity.