Quotes About Impact

Not how long you live, but how much you have lived, how much meaning your life has absorbed and passed on, is what matters.

The New World vision seemed to enlarge and exalt every human possibility, even though the explorers and pioneers, in turning their backs on the Old World, did not in fact leave the 'cruel sword' or the 'ignominious plague' behind them, for their smallpox, measles, and tuberculosis decimated those natives whom their guns did not exterminate.

Some amazing records have this power to leave you with inspiration; you're left with the urge to write something. And some records are totally overwhelming, because they are so good, they burn the bridges behind them.

All of philanthropy is harnessing that urge to have your name on something, and using it for good.

I don't have any sense or urgency about any of my writing, actually. I don't think mankind will be damaged if I don't put out a new album or a new book.

In the not-for-profit world, there can be wastefulness because there's not the desperate urgency of when you're on a clock.

What the Super Bowl did for us was give us a sense of urgency.

I want my photos to be fresh and urgent. A good photograph should be a call to arms.

I am interested in seeing if you can create on film pieces that feel contemporary and urgent.

Our kind of research might be one of the first projects to go. Our work is not urgent; it's not the cure for cancer or Alzheimer's. But we have a way of understanding human life that you can't get anywhere else, and it lays the foundation for important, actionable things.

Our attitude towards others determines their attitude towards us.

It seems the EPA has worked hard to devise new regulations that are designed to eliminate coal mining, coal burning, usage of coal.

Over my lifetime, heavy usage has woefully eroded profanity's power.

New technology is not good or evil in and of itself. It's all about how people choose to use it.

If they're not talking about you, you're not doing something; you're not doing anything. So if they're talking about you, you may be doing something right. And when they talk bad about you, you just use it for motivation.

AI is neither good nor evil. It's a tool. It's a technology for us to use.

My object in life is not simply to make money for myself or to spend it on myself in dressing or running around in an automobile, but I love to use a part of what I make in trying to help others.

I like technology, but 'Black Mirror' is more what the consequences are, and it doesn't tend to be about technology itself: it tends to be how we use or misuse it. We've not really thought through the consequences of it.

When you believe in what you're doing and use your imagination and initiative, you can make a difference.

The world is in your hands, now use it.

Technology is neutral, but it all depends on the way we use it.

The rock star is dying. And it's a small tragedy. Rock stars have blogs now. I have no use for that kind of rock star.

I am personally a big believer that technology is the biggest driver of human development, and if you can use technology to benefit people, then that's the best business you can have.

The successful man doesn't use others, other people use the successful man, for above all the success is of service.