Quotes About Impact

If poetry alters the way in which the reader views the world, then it has had its desired effect.

If our faith is the most important part of our lives, then our religious views influence every other part of our lives, including our political views.

First impressions matter. Most people don't change their political views radically from the ones they first hold.

I don't know any form of art or entertainment that can affect people the way movies can. I know it sounds ridiculous, but they can change your world. They can change your views.

I will continue to speak out against the views of both Limbaugh and Hannity when I feel it's warranted, meeting their free speech with my own. But I will never forget that, without them, I'd have a much smaller platform on which to do it.

I put all my time into Indian rights, and I think this is something I know something about, and I think that my time is best spent insofar as my political views are concerned.

I know it sounds trite but I wanted to make a difference. Political debates with my father had been fraught because he was uncompromising and explosive but if he taught me one thing it was to air my views.

The way we behave, our views and outlooks really have their sources some place. They come from somewhere. Sometimes we don't even know what they are, and yet they're very powerful in our lives.

I could just go to the horse races and take lovely holidays, but I have some strong views, and I want to make a difference.

Many people supported the Conservatives because of David Cameron, while many people supported Labour despite Ed Miliband. Deteriorating opinions of Cameron will therefore have a bigger impact on the Conservatives' vote share than worsening views of Miliband would have on Labour's.

I always wanted to make films that might change or at least focus people's views.

Parents should be vigilant and spiritually attentive to spontaneously occurring opportunities to bear testimony to their children. Such occasions need not be programmed, scheduled, or scripted. In fact, the less regimented such testimony sharing is, the greater the likelihood for edification and lasting impact.

It can be 10 people or thousands of people: I want them to see something special. I want them to say, 'I saw the best in the world at something,' and maybe that will inspire them to go do something in their life with the same vigor.

Overly vigorous investigations of ominously ill-defined 'bullying' can themselves constitute a form of bullying.

A sovereign's great example forms a people; the public breast is noble or vile as he inspires it.

Everyone knows me from my time at Arsenal. No-one really remembers me at Boro or Villa.

I chose to document the lives of people living in a remote village in Alaska called Shishmaref because there we can literally see how climate change is affecting their homes, livelihoods and ultimately their lives.

When my friends talk about childhood, I've never heard of any cartoons or TV they remember. The only thing we share is Michael Jackson. That's how far his music travelled - to a remote village on the other side of the world.

The life of the village became more and more affected by strikes and lock-outs.

Environment does shape you. My environment, in a pit family, in a pit village, with nine kids in total.

What was extraordinary about Occupy London was that it was a village with a louder voice than one of the biggest cities of the world.

The destruction of India's village system was the greatest of England's blunders.

Soon after joining the Ministry of Health in Ethiopia, I was called upon as part of team to respond to a malaria outbreak. My team was dispatched to a village in southwestern Ethiopia, where I not only observed the malaria epidemic's shocking effects on adults and children but also experienced it first-hand.

There's an assumption in many of these cultures that these children are mentally retarded, when in fact they're not at all. I saw how the operation affects the child, as well as the child's family and often the village.