Quotes About Impact

Jack didn't happen to me: I happened to Jack.

We move but our words stand become responsible for more than we intended and this is verbal privilege

Poetry never stood a chance of standing outside history.

The moment when a feeling enters the body is political.

Social entrepreneurs are people who have amazing passion to do good.

I love people that work with passion and love. When you make choices that way, there's reverberations, consequences. That's what I'm interested in, that echo, that ripple of choice.

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

I learnt that if I want to make any difference, or changes to my world, then I've got to be involved. We need passion - that's how things change.

I'm very connected and passionate about what I put out in the world, and I want to get things safely to shore.

With Ronaldo in the league, people will be passionate again about Serie A.

I've always been a very passionate, sometimes overly emotional person. Sometimes things affect me more than they should.

I find that it's not the numbers but the quality of the audience. That's why it got to be such a big thing when I left Microsoft, because I had an interested audience; not huge, but passionate. The passionate ones are the ones who change society.

I want to work on cases that I feel the most passionate about.

If you love something, if you're passionate about it, that's where you're going to have the greatest impact on the people around you: by living in those passions and sharing that passion with other people and sharing your gifts and what God created you to be.

The darkest aspects of imperialism are still very much prevalent in many cultures around the world; hundreds of years later, and we have a collective responsibility to encounter the deeds of our past.

All that is noble in the world's past history, and especially the minds of the great and the good, are never lost.

If coming events are said to cast their shadows before, past events cannot fall to leave their impress behind them.

I wouldn't have changed a thing in my past. Life is like dominoes: if you move one, it wouldn't fall the right way.

I don't really want acknowledgement or want people to pat me on the back or whatever. I just want to help the people I feel like I can help and if there's an opportunity where I feel like I can help, I do it.

Kids aren't scared to pat my shoulder when I come down the aisle to the ring.

Pat Metheny's my hero, man. I've got so much from Metheny's music.

Imagine: I got patent rights to the only machine in the world to make low-cost sanitary napkins - a hot-cake product. Anyone with an MBA would immediately accumulate the maximum money. But I did not want to. Why? Because from childhood, I know no human being died because of poverty - everything happens because of ignorance.

You just have to find your activism, and don't let anyone tell you what that should look like. If you're doing the work, and you're getting someone to think, you're on the right path.

When somebody blazes a path to a highway that never end, you should appreciate 'em some.