Quotes About Impact

The 'Harry Potter' books had a huge impact on me.

A car is a 2,000 pound projectile that can go 100 miles an hour.

I'm 300 pounds. If I fall on anybody, it's going to hurt.

My great-grandfather started in the coal mines, and my great grandmother made 10 pounds of bread every Saturday morning that we delivered to the neighbors. It was always about giving back. These kinds of things drive me to make a difference.

When I was born, I was 10.5 pounds. My dad said I was like a little rock. It's stuck with me ever since.

I'd probably be the most unintimidating three-hole hitter in the league at 150 pounds.

I've had so many experiences with film or musicals or books where I just walk away changed in some way. One of the things that makes me want to be a writer is to pour my heart into something and hope that I can affect someone in that same way.

The mail amazes me. I sometimes get these letters that are ten pages, and handwritten, from women pouring their hearts out and, for security reasons, I can only respond with a headshot and 'Dear so and so, be good. WM.' It never feels like enough.

The devadasis have a multilayered story, a story in which poverty, deprivation and injustice against women is central - but what has happened to them is absolutely an outcome of imperialism and the impact of British rule in India.

I am deeply concerned about the impact of poverty on children because poverty can destroy their future and bind them to a life of misery.

Places like India can give you a real culture shock because of the poverty you see, and it brings you up sharply.

I fight for the environment because we only have one planet, but I see how the environment affects poverty and how the environment affects women around the world.

America has a critical place to play in the end of extreme poverty.

It's a powerful thing to know that you are empowering someone to lift themselves out of poverty.

I may not remember the name of a book's author, but let it be clear, what I will not forget is the violence, the poverty and the desperation that Mexico is living through.

I just don't think that the differences you make by donating to a museum or an art gallery really compare to the differences you make by donating to the charities that fight global poverty.

I am open-eyed about what poverty does to people.

I don't get up in the morning and think my mission is to end Britain. I do get up in the morning and think that my mission is to end poverty.

I like hitting people. The best feeling is when you hit so hard, pow! You get a jarring headache.

The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

We pay for power plant pollution through higher health costs.

The U.S. limits mercury, arsenic, and soot from power plants. Yet, astonishingly, there are no national limits on how much carbon pollution these plants can dump into our atmosphere.

Music is powerful. As people listen to it, they can be affected. They respond.

There's nothing quite as powerful as people feeling they can have impact and make a difference. When you've got that going for you, I think it's a very powerful way to implement change.