Quotes About Impact

When you're given a certain amount of power - like, you're a writer and an employed writer, and you put pen to paper, and people are going to read what you write - that's power.

I think that I can do with the Penguin what Heath Ledger did with the Joker.

By working toward a financial objective, you'll start to see the money add up for retirement or the credit card balance go down. But it doesn't have an immediate impact on your day-to-day life, and when it does - like when you're pinching pennies to save more - the immediate impact could feel negative.

I'm a business guy from Pennsylvania who has done a lot for the state.

I think the governor has short-changed the people of Pennsylvania with respect to shale gas, both with respect to the environment and the economy.

It didn't matter whether I had a penny or whether I had a billion dollars. There was nothing that was going to keep me out of a courtroom, and there was nothing that was going to keep me from helping others.

A people always ends by resembling its shadow.

You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.

How can you make the people change? How can you reach them in their heart? I do not have the answers for this.

It's not just about getting a song on the radio or appearing on television. It really is about helping people change their lives one day at a time.

People say I design architectural icons. If I design a building and it becomes an icon, that's ok.

People say, 'Is broadcasting the same as coaching?' I say, 'Hell, no.' Coaching, you win and lose. Broadcasting, you don't win and lose. Coaching was a lot bigger than broadcasting.

I hear people say it affected your self-esteem to be segregated. It never affected mine.

My thing is to get new fans. So I love when people say, 'Oh, I've heard of him before.' Or 'I've never heard of Durk.' Or 'I'm a fan of Durk today.' This is what I like to see, because it lets me know when I come out with something that it's going to work.

People say you never remember anybody who dies in movies, and it's true, you don't. You don't even remember people who disappear.

When people say that George Harrison made me famous, that is true in a way.

So many times I've heard people say that the right to marry for gay and lesbian couples won't really change anything other than some legal and financial stuff. It's a dumb argument: those legal and financial effects matter.

You know, one of the things my husband says when people say 'Well, what did you bring to Washington,' he said, 'Well, I brought arithmetic.'

When people say that you kind of just get - you know, just feel like a little buzzed or dazed or had your bell rung - they consider that a concussion. I wouldn't. But if that is considered a concussion, I would say any football player at least records 50 to 100 in the course of a year.

Pep Guardiola was very good for the Bundesliga.

My album is better than 'Sgt. Pepper.'

I listened to all the Misfits albums growing up and Red Hot Chili Peppers, too.

Frivolous lawsuits are booming in this county. The U.S. has more costs of litigation per person than any other industrialized nation in the world, and it is crippling our economy.

I don't fly because of the enormous climate impact of aviation per person.