Quotes About Impact

It would be hard to exaggerate Ernest Hemingway's influence over American literature, but his influence on our lives is probably larger still.

The quality of our lives is diminished every time we lose a great artist. It's a different world without Sam Cooke, Otis Redding, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Curtis Mayfield, Brian Jones and the rest.

Most great plays of the past lose their grip on immediacy; on application to our lives right now.

People come up to me and tell me how they were in a dark place and our music helped them out. It's mind-blowing. It's not just 'Rock Lobster' or 'Love Shack' - there's much more there.

Our music has been an incredible gift to help us make a difference.

The Grateful Dead were an influence on our music but they weren't by a long shot the biggest influence.

Three 6 Mafia have been around for a long time; we've made a lot of music. Anybody's music can influence anybody. I've heard people say that our music has influenced such and such, and it could be true, and it could not.

A lot of people write and tell us what The B-52s meant to them - straight, straight-A students, those who were a little awkward, weren't always the ones who fit in. People have told us that just having us and our music was beyond important and really made me feel that what we were doing was worth something big.

I would love for people to enjoy our music and have feelings from it. That's all I can hope for.

A lot of young people have been raised on our music, or rather had it forced upon them by their parents.

We've influenced other artists, and when younger generations become fans of those artists and hear about us, they discover our music too.

It's really a blessing that our music can reach across generations.

It feels wonderful that people, both young and old, listen to our music, and that it still makes an impact.

That's one of the best things about my job: I get to tell the world about the innovative and meaningful things our people are doing every day.

The fossil fuel industry is destroying our planet and everything that we love.

To call the coronavirus a great equaliser turned out to be the greatest falsification of our time.

Justice Ginsburg is a shining example of how one person can impact our world and truly make a difference. May her memory be a blessing.

We do not have to accept the world as we find it. And we have a responsibility to leave our world a better place and never walk by on the other side of injustice.

If I had to do it all over again, would I want my dad here? I would say no. Our world is in a better place because our father gave his life.

As soon as I heard of Common Goal I knew this was a chance for football to improve our world and I wanted to be part of it.

I think cross-cultural dialogue is something that has hugely impacted the richness of the culture of our world.

Great lives never go out; they go on.

You've got a bunch of kids out here that might not want to be athletes, but they want to learn how to make a difference in their community, and I'm trying to as best I can show an example of that.

A lot affects the outcome. It boils down to scheduling and the commitment of the network.