Quotes About Impact

Every guy I touch, it's the same result. When I land, it's like seeing one of those preachers on TV. When I touch them, they fall out.

Sometimes I feel like I'm a preacher as well, 'cause I can really get into an audience.

With all respect, I'm sure that we have enough preachers in the world. Through my way of writing, I was capable of being able to say these things and yet not make a person feel as though they're being preached at.

I am growing more and more aware that all too often we preachers aim at nothing and hit it.

Seth Rogen told me to read 'Preacher,' and 'Preacher' was amazing.

We're not preachers, but we say, 'Let's try and change things.'

But, on the other hand, the occasional and precarious dripping of coppers has by no means a genial effect.

I think when any one kind of film does well, it creates a precedent and paves the way for more like it.

John Lennon made wonderful music, which people listen to as music. Nobody around the world is living their life according to the precepts of John Lennon.

Philanthropic dollars are precious resources, so it's our responsibility to consider how we use them carefully. Yet few of us spend enough time doing so.

To ensure food security for all, we should be clear about the definition of the problem, the precise index of measuring impact and the road map to achieve the goal.

I believe that literature always goes precisely there where the damage to a person has been done.

So, for me, working with larger companies has often been very satisfying, precisely because of the ability of bringing critical mass to bear on a given effort.

I still don't know precisely why The Mickey Mouse Club ended when it did.

Like my constituents, I have had to immerse myself in the detail about HS2 precisely because of the massive and permanent impact it would have on the area I represent.

Muhammad Ali inside the ring and Muhammad Ali outside the ring were totally different men; his abrasive, magnetic daring and infectious self-love outside the ring galvanized the world and distracted many from his sniper's precision. He was a heavyweight with the fluttering gracefulness of a middleweight.

But I'd rather not predict. I'd rather affect.

We couldn't predict what would happen with 'Roots.' You knew there were powerful moments that were going to affect people. We were making the film while the book was being completed. We were fortunate because the hardcover book was out and on the best-seller list. The heat was still on.

I never want to predict the relationship between music and advertising.

There was no way to predict that 'This is Us' was going to be what it is, that it would really resonate with people.

I always predict a knockout. That's what I go for, I hit to hurt.

Once the automobile appeared you could have predicted that it would destroy as many people as it did.

Those who claim that to leave the E.U. would damage the City are the very same as those who in the past confidently predicted, with a classic failure of understanding, that the City would be gravely damaged if the U.K. failed to adopt the euro as its currency.

Nobody could have predicted the effect of John Bonham's drum introduction on 'Good Times, Bad Times,' because no matter what he'd played in before, he'd never had the chance to flex his muscles and play like John Bonham.