Quotes About Impact

What I found was when I started my first study, and then in subsequent studies, is here you have people under some kind of duress, or I chose to study them because they represented some kind of historical event, as it impacted on them or as they helped to create it.

Each creative choice you make has 'x' many impacts on budgetary choices, which in turn have 'y' many impacts on your subsequent creative choices. They feed each other.

Can one end anything? A chapter, a paragraph, a sentence even? Doesn't everything one has ever done go on living in spite of subsequent events?

There is more excitement, more amazement when a first is born. No subsequent babies can have that impact.

If people think of public art as something the public decides, it's impossible to make anything of substance.

I want people to say at the end of my day, you know, like I used to say about Sidney Poitier and James Cagney and Joan Crawford and Red Skelton and those guys and Bill Cosby. They did quality and substance. You always remember them.

With a gimmick, there isn't much substance. If you play to the crowd too much, it can go bad.

Once you can get a fan to listen to an album a handful of times and really have a lot of substance for them to grasp, then you're looking at having a fan that really appreciates what you do for life and can appreciate coming to see it live.

I've always wanted to be a woman of substance, giving the society as much as I can.

I think Heaven and afterlife is for the living; it's for the people that continue on and remember that person, and if you've done something that is substantial in your life then you can leave a legacy and do something positive.

If I can give a very substantial injection of humanistic thinking into corporations, boy, that would change things a lot.

If you have an opportunity to reach people on a broad scale, it's not enough to just entertain people. You have to take responsibility. You has to do something substantial. Otherwise you're squandering what you have.

I like to do commercials that are more than just flogging a product. It needs to have something to say. It's always an opportunity for a director to say something substantial and interesting.

Whether I'm in a sari or a mini skirt hardly matters as long as the role I do in a film is substantial and makes a difference.

I want to have something substantial to say or I'm just not going to say anything.

I don't mind being in the public eye as long as I am doing something substantial.

I'm a 1960 baby, and since I can recall, football has been like this. It's been a more important, more substantial part of American life.

We need to go after cancer, diabetes, climate change, the substantive problems of the world that, if were solved, would create immense wealth and opportunity that would cascade across countries.

I would say I have taken substantive action to make things easier for people.

There's no substitute to actually being in the room and having people in the room feel the force of your audition. It's very hard to beat that.

That's my job as an actor - to go on and try to do the work so subtle and so fine and specific that the memories will linger for a long time.

Words can hurt you. In the larger world, it frames how people think about you, and it can hurt you in lots of little, subtle ways.

I don't think we'd be the business that we are today if we were spread out in the suburban areas.

I've always wanted Americans to see what's happening to their country from the comfort of their suburban homes and their smart phones. I want people to see the beginning of the end of the greatest economic machine that the world has ever seen: America.