Quotes About Impact

Engineers are often defined by their output.

You can be outraged by what the Koch brothers do with their money in politics and you can appreciate what they contribute to hospitals and medical research, and you can do that at the same time and still retain an ability to function.

It's much more fun to be the person who comes into the room and lights the match. I get to be the force, the girl who always says or does something completely outrageous, and leaves everyone thinking, 'What was that?'

Oasis were massive for me, because of the attitude and what they represented and how outspoken they were. It felt like they were exactly like me.

If I hadn't been so outspoken, Jimmy Carter wouldn't have wanted me.

You've really got to appreciate an artist that's really outspoken and feels like his music can change the world.

At least since 1947, the historical record seems to support a simple conclusion: If you want the American economy to grow, you ought to put a Democrat in the Oval Office.

Acting touches nerves you have absolutely no control over.

'Citizen Ruth' I saw when I was in college, and I really flipped out over it. I just knew I wanted to work with the person who made that movie.

I was scarred in 1977 by watching Jaws, and I've never got over it.

Those 12 o'clock kick-offs can be good if you win as then you've got the rest of the day to celebrate and enjoy it. On the other hand, if you lose, it's not a nice feeling. You spend the rest of the day mithering about the game and going over it in your mind for the next eight hours.

I can discern that certain things have an effect on certain other things, but I don't view those effects as good or bad. If a context and a goal is defined, I could say if it's good or bad. But overall, I don't view things as good or bad.

I do get very involved in making a scene work without giving too much thought about how it affects the overall, which I think is hard to know in any case.

Luckily, I'm only aware of about two or three concussions that I have had, but there's really no way of telling how many overall.

I think, overall, the NBA and its players are really conscious about our role and what we do as role models.

You see one eviction, and you're overcome, but then there's another one and another one and another one.

Covid is not dying because of overcrowding. In fact, is going to grow.

I'm never going to overestimate the clout of my job.

A cliche is like a coin that has been handled too much. Once language has been overly handled, it no longer leaves a clear imprint.

Everybody has different issues, good or bad, that they carry with them on the court. It affects you. And for me, it affected me to where sometimes I would be overly aggressive and, in other ways, it would affect people to where they can't perform on the court.

Nothing will ever have the impact that 9/11 had on Boeing and on the world. It just changed things overnight.

I thought I'd write one book and the world would change overnight.

I think the lottery changed everything for us. Once we got Sidney, it helped us turn this franchise around overnight.

The whole social media can destroy people overnight.