Quotes About Impact

One day to see that headline, not that someone won a basketball championship, but to see that a cure for cancer has been found, will be a great day for mankind.

A great book is like great evil.

A great person is one who affects the mind of their generation.

In the hands of a great poet, words have ways of affecting us in ways we don't understand.

The experiential test of whether this art is great or good, or minor or abysmal is the effect it has on your own sense of the world and of yourself. Great art changes you.

All truly great art is propaganda.

Great art changes you.

People are always coming up to me and saying, 'I heard your dad's speech, and it's really great.' And they'll mention some place I didn't even know my dad was going to.

One sign of a great actor is when he can be alone by himself on the screen, doing almost nothing, and producing one of a film's defining moments.

Global warming has melted the polar ice caps, raised the levels of the oceans and flooded the earth's great cities. Despite its evident prosperity, New Jersey is scarcely Utopia.

Her contempt for me was so strong, that it became infectious, and I caught it.

You take a guy like George Clooney who goes out there to Darfur, and gets things done! That's magical. He's done a great thing.

Our ability to do great things with data will make a real difference in every aspect of our lives.

We became convinced that, regardless of Stalin's awful brutality and his reign of terror, he was a great war leader. Without Stalin, they never would have held.

All really great artists, Jackson Pollack, John Cage, Beckett or Joyce - you are never indifferent to them.

The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things.

Whatever happens in Mogadishu, in Somalia, will happen in Great Britain. We have interlocking interests.

It's a great thing, for someone to feel that they can draw inspiration from you.

Speaking for myself, I try to go out there on the stage and make jokes with people, so I'm not really thinking about the impact anything I have. If it does resonate with people, that's really great.

The French Revolution will be found to have had great influence on the strength of parties, and on the subsequent political transactions of the United States.

What I really mean is that a great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it.

The message of great art is to disturb.

Kenny Burrell is a great musician and his music has helped to make me what I am today.

I fail to see the issue that will shock the people of this great country of ours into some decisive action.