Quotes About Impact

Any time you have a platform or any influence, it's really important to use and make the most of it.

I've been blessed with a platform and a voice, and I owe it to myself and my family and our people to use it responsibly.

When you first get into television it is a big deal, then you realize you are no better than anyone else, we just have a platform to use, to help other people. I use that platform for the work I do in the military, the work I do with cancer because I was fortunate enough to get that platform.

What is the use in being a celebrity if you can't use the platform to help?

Being able to dedicate 100 per cent of my time to impacting more businesses without being operational, it just gives me a bigger platform.

The Zach Johnson Foundation, for my wife and I, is very much a part of what we do and why we do what we do. It's a great platform for us to give back to the community that started me in the game and other communities.

It is important that we women use our position as a platform to influence for good.

I'm using my platform to help out a little bit, you know. It's only right.

I'm lucky because the most dangerous thing that could happen to me is that someone will say something mean on a computer screen miles away, and so I feel like if that's all that I'm facing, then why would I not use my platform to talk about things?

As a responsible citizen and a role model to a certain section of people, I need to use every available platform to reach out to the impressionable sections of our country.

Who could have imagined that a platform like - I'll use Netflix as a example - that it could be so good?

I chose a public platform to come out. I wanted to have an impact with it.

I didn't realize that the platform could be this big until Colin Kaepernick first took a knee. When he did that, that was kind of an 'aha' moment for me.

The biggest things I have are the platform that I have and influence.

All designers have a platform, an audience. Whether it's one or a million, it doesn't matter.

My goal is to use football as a platform to speak out on things that need addressing.

Celebrities have a platform, and people listen to them. And there's a lot of people that we are able to touch, who aren't watching activists and aren't watching the news, that are watching what celebrities say.

At the end of the day, when you're trying to do good, that's all that matters. Whether it's in a different aspect than in the N.B.A. or N.F.L., you should use your platform for good.

As footballers we have a massive platform that we should be using way more than we actually are.

With great power comes great responsibility. These are platforms with hundreds of millions of people.

I don't think of myself as a powerful person. But I do use the platforms I have to make a difference in the world. Anyone who has a position where they can make a difference should use it.

It's important to think about the bigger picture, especially if we are given these platforms. We can make a difference.

What supermarkets did to small neighbourhood shops is what digital platforms will do to cinema.

I'm an athlete. I play basketball and football and all that with a bunch of other men, but that doesn't impact me emotionally.