Quotes About Impact

I always believe that every one of us is working hard not only for our own performance but also to give something significant back to the societies we live in.

If for every well-intended prayer uttered in hopes of making the world a better place, there was instead a good deed accomplished, the world might look as though those prayers had been answered.

It's easy to make a mess when you're not the one who has to clean it up.

Actually oddly enough, I think my work, the activism, will be forgotten. And I hope it will. Because I hope those problems will have gone away.

You can't make people work harder. People have to want to work hard and make a difference. Purpose matters.

People who get Nobel prizes aren't necessarily the most imaginative of people. People who sometimes find a system, develop a system, do very useful work.

I just finished Colson Whitehead's "The Underground Railroad," which I think is a work of genius.

Value work. But not any kind of work. Ask yourself "Is the work vital, strengthening my own character, or inspiring others, or helping the world?".

The moment when one first meets a great work of art has an impact that can never again be recaptured.

I honestly believe that all of my work have the type of impact that will allow me to create some unique opportunities.

In terms of being a role model, I didn't start out to be one. I don't go to work every day with that in mind. But, I do get a lot of fan mail from young girls.

He is the greatest influence in the world today. There is... a fifth Gospel being written - the work of Jesus Christ in the hearts and lives of men and nations.

I have had the most wonderful time on 'EastEnders' and I will miss you all. The show has changed my life and I want you all to continue the good work, because I'll be at home watching you.

Spend 70% of your spare time doing things close to home and the other 30% doing work at the global and national level.

It was truly revealing. The strength of the intervention, the intensity of colors and the happiness of this work, has never left me.

I do my work. My work is my statement. Generally, I think, there is too much interest in what an artist has to say. Or what she or he looks like, instead of what she or he does.

Most of the forward movements of life in general ... have been the work of essentially religiously-minded people.

A one-hour work-week...would minimize the damage that Congress can do.

Every time I read Erin Belieu work I'm pierced in that wonderful way poetry can.

The movies have a way of seeping out there over time. We don't put them in 2,000 theaters. It wouldn't work that way.

As you are touching the human life and human kind, any work is always relevant.

I believe in collaboration, which is why I work with others to make positive contributions of consequence, and why I have made a very clear and unwavering commitment to remain absolutely apolitical.

That's an amazing gift as an actor - to be able to say I have an audience in so many countries in the world and that people know my work.

It is better to present one image in a lifetime than to produce voluminous work. Image...that which presents an intellectual and emotional complex in an instant of time.