Quotes About Impact

Taxpayers should be able to see where their money is being spent and what impact it is having.

If you stop and think about who was in the 'Lassie' movies, it's difficult to think who was in them, apart from Elizabeth Taylor. You remember the dog, not the people! So if you're going to be in a movie, and it's called 'Gremlins', it's going to be about Gremlins, and what people are going to remember are the Gremlins.

Another woman approached me while I was having lunch at the Russian Tea Room in New York and told me that the reason she had become a lawyer was because she had read 'Rage of Angels'. To me, that kind of feedback has more meaning than any sales figures.

I don't think I would be characterized as a Tea Party candidate; I would be characterized as the most effective candidate.

It is not an overstatement to say that Obamacare was the single most important catalyst leading to the tea party movement.

I think that if we want to cure cancer, we have to teach girls to code. If we want to do something about climate change, we have to teach girls to code. If we want to solve homelessness in our city and our country, teach girls to code. They're change makers.

Our experience at Teach For America has been that the more people understand educational inequity, the more they want to do something about it.

We can't afford to live in isolation, and we need to teach our kids that the things that they do not only matter to others far away but impact others who live far away, and there are ripples of effect.

People have used my songs and guitar style to teach guitar for a long time.

I feel bad about a lot of the movies I see that teach kids that if they do bad, they'll win.

To this end the greatest asset of a school is the personality of the teacher.

The impending teacher shortage is the most critical education issue we will face in the next decade.

No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher.

It's the teacher that makes the difference, not the classroom.

All it takes is one teacher - just one - to save us from ourselves and make us forget all the others.

I was an elementary school teacher.

My brother's a teacher in Costa Rica and actually does a more important and significant job than I will ever do.

Don't say I was an inspirational teacher - my former pupils would laugh their heads off. I was grossly incompetent, but I hope I didn't do the children a disservice.

I'm glad I was a teacher.

I became a high school teacher for many years because it was a very tangible, concrete way where I could make a difference, and quite frankly, the kids didn't care who my father had been, because it was late '90s; none of them were around or remembered my father.

If I wasn't an actor, I think I'd love to be a primary school teacher.

Mr. Bachchan is one of the best things to have happened in my life. The best teacher, the best guru.

I think once you're in the public eye, whether you're a boss, a teacher or whatever you do, that you're automatically in the position of role model. You have people looking up to you, so whether you choose to accept it or not is a different question.

I think eventually I want to become a teacher, like my father wanted to be, and hopefully positively influence the next generation.