Quotes About Impact

I find myself born into this particular position. I'm determined to make the most of it and to do whatever I can to help. And I hope I leave things behind a little bit better than I found them.

A legacy is a lot of times determined by how people accept your music. And sometimes people's legacy starts late or starts early, or they last a long time or a short amount of time. As a musician, I've never taken an approach of wanting to try to control that because I don't think that I can.

What do you call success in our sport? What determines success? Are you successful if you are 10-0 and no one is watching your fights? Is that success?

I don't believe $25 billion or $50 billion or $100 billion is going to change the way Detroit does business.

Whole communities have been devastated as good-paying jobs continue to leave the U.S.

Divorce in and of itself, and with children, is devastating.

I have personally seen what a devastating medical condition can cost.

The coronavirus is having a devastating impact on our senior community and their families.

Dementia is not exclusively a problem of the developed world.

The question I want to put forward is, 'Does the technology we are developing ultimately benefit mankind?'

When I was growing up, government was the agent of change: it was a developing country. What was important was to make a difference.

I've become interested in the impact of climate change on the world and the future of energy needs for the developing world.

A world in which others controlled the course of their own development, would be a world in which the American system would be seriously endangered.

If you don't have an emotionally engaging design for a device, no one will care about it.

I know without our fans and the devotion of our fans we wouldn't be here. I don't mean to put them down, but I'm just stating a fact that it is hard to play to people that see you all the time and it takes a lot of fun out of it in some ways.

When I was diagnosed with cancer at age 22, I learned just how much cancer affects families when it affects individuals.

I just try to write songs that people are going to have a dialogue about.

What makes that turnstile turn? That's what made wrestling what it has become. The fans dictate the direction of the wrestling industry.

It's the fans that dictate what wrestling is. That's the one constant from 1917 to 2017.

The first movie I really clicked with was 'Die Hard' when I was 6 years old, which is crazy that I was watching it that young. That was the one that made me want to become an actor.

Both my parents died on the young side. My father was 45, and my mother was 61, so cancer's affected me in a big way.

My father died when I was 7. I was his favorite child, and he was my beloved father. I brought him along with me all through my life. Every elderly man has a bit of my father in him for me.

In my career, Diego Maradona had the biggest influence on me.

One is always enthralled, I think, when a young writer you're just beginning to read and comprehend dies.