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Quotes About Impact

I always had the old-school model that I'm going to work for as long as I'm relevant and focus on for-profit activities and someday when I retire I'm going to learn about philanthropy.
~ Marc Andreessen
The insignificant labor, the great create.
~ Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Had it not been for the ministry of my good friend Dr. Billy Graham, my work in the civil rights movement would not have been as successful as it has been.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
I have been asked whether it is strange when a big story and big business for you is tragedy or ill fortune for someone else; but the fact is that is how many things in life work sadly.
~ Mary Hart
Advertisements ordinarily work their wonders, to the extent that they work at all, on an inattentive public.
~ Michael Schudson
You have to understand how the human eye behaves when it views a scene for the first time. Work with that knowledge, and your paintings will have more drama and will evoke strong reactions.
~ Mike Svob
You keep plugging away--that's the way social change takes place. That's the way every social change in history has taken place: by a lot of people, who nobody ever heard of, doing work.
~ Noam Chomsky
Kenneth Hari's art work shall influence mankind.
~ Pablo Casals
My work with churches has led me to the conclusion that the single most important element in having an effective and life-changing ministry is to capture God's vision for your ministry."
~ Phil Pringle
I really don't see any influence of my work on any artists. But I do think I've had an influence on drawings' being shown. I've had an influence on the economics of it.
~ Raymond Pettibon
In business, as in life, all that matters is that you do something positive.
~ Richard Branson
If you have a higher reason ... than just to make money... it will bring you longer fulfillment. And it won't feel like work.
~ Sammy Hagar
If there was ever a moment to follow your passion and do work that matters, this is it.
~ Seth
Once you free yourself from the need for perfect acceptance, it's a lot easier to launch work that matters.
~ Seth Godin
I just believed. I believed that the technology would change people's lives. I believed putting real identity online - putting technology behind real identity - was the missing link.
~ Sheryl Sandberg
It doesn't matter what anyone else thinks about what's "too much" what's "enough" or if you're telling the "right" stories, just do good work.
~ Soledad O'Brien
Don't worry about the chatter, do a good job, produce great work and do reporting that you're proud of.
~ Soledad O'Brien
Life is too short to do mediocre work and it is definitely too short to build shitty things.
~ Stewart Butterfield
It has very little to do with my work, but if your image is not sexy enough, people won't listen. It's part of the game.
~ Sting
Since fantasy isn't about technology, the accelleration has no impact at all. But it's changed the lives of fantasy writers and editors. I get to live in England and work for a New York publisher!
~ Terri Windling
I got addicted to lighting people up, just seeing people so happy 'cause they rediscovered what they're capable of and so that became my life's work.
~ Tony Robbins
So, it's nice to know that you've inspired someone to do their life's work.
~ Wanda Jackson
A work of art is great to the extent that to encounter it is to be changed.
~ Wendy Beckett
And if any work that I have done should have value beyond my own lifetime, I believe it will be the happy labors of the decade 1869-1878.
~ Unknown