Quotes About Impact

The work that lasts over time is the work which still speaks to us when all contemporary interest in that work is extinct.

I want to work with kids. I would love to be a teacher.

My hope is that 10 years from now, after I've been across the street at work for a while, they'll all be glad they gave me that wonderful vote.

I think there are lots of ways to make good work. You can throw big bucks at a project and make what some would call crap, or you can work very modestly with eloquently moving results.

You want to know what I make? I make kids work harder than they ever thought they could. I can make a C+ feel like a Congressional Medal of Honor, and I can make a...

From the time I read my first Hemingway work, The Sun Also Rises, as a student at Soldan High School in St. Louis, I was struck with an affliction common to my generation: Hemingway Awe.

Every great work makes the human face more admirable and richer, and this is its whole secret.

There's nothing wrong with provocative art work: I even look forward to the day when I can take pictures which will disturb even me.

One person can have a profound effect on another. And two people... well, two people can work miracles. They can change a whole town. They can change the world.

There's a reason people run negative ads... it's because they work.

The work of volunteers impacts on all our lives, even if we are not aware of it.

All you leave the world is what you've done. No one will ever know the conditions, the comments, the pressures. Only the work remains.

I'm not super comfortable in my skin. I have to make it work for me, and that usually amounts to making it uncomfortable for everyone else.

There's a balance between what you want to give the world and what it needs. If you're lucky, your work is in the middle.

Anyone that's involved in development has discovered that all the good work that's been done in development has been undone by the AIDS emergency.

Outstanding leaders have a sense of mission, a belief in themselves and the value of their work.

People who have committed to a service/advocacy role will tell you that some of the sublimest pleasure they have ever experienced comes in the context of that work. You get way more than you give.

In many cases, people who win a Nobel prize, their work slows down after that because of the distractions. Yes, fame is rewarding, but it's a pity if it keeps you from doing the work you are good at.

Ideas matter. Legislative proposals matter. Slick campaigns and dazzling speeches can work for a while, but the magic always wears off.

If you make your business about helping others, you'll always have plenty of work.

Vision remains vision until you focus, do the work, and bring it down to earth where it will do some good.

. . . every preacher who does not make prayer a mighty factor in his own life and ministry is weak as a factor in God's work and is powerless to project God's cause in this world.

The less I say the more my work gets done.

Mexico has lost an icon whose work has transcended generations and borders.