Quotes About Impact

What we can do as individuals may not be very much on the global scale, but we have to start the change by living as we are teaching.

Money is not the reason that people enter teaching.

I love and always have loved policy issues and trying to have an impact on the issues that are out there. I cherish my years in government. I have loved my participation at CNN, at Current; writing; teaching. Where I will go next, I will have to sort out.

Study after study affirms what I saw in the classroom every day as superintendent of Denver Public Schools: Nothing makes a bigger difference for student learning than great teaching.

I do good in the world - at least I try to. I speak on behalf of women, and I know I have made the lives of women happier as a result of teaching them what I have learned relative to true health rather than disease care.

When students have thanked me in the past for being their teacher, I have always felt that it was actually my love for the art of teaching they were speaking to.

Teaching is a truly noble profession. It's sad the amount of responsibility that teachers have today. They're not only teaching kids: they're raising kids, policing kids - and they don't make a lot of money.

There are so many aspects to science that I couldn't give up - the rigor, the discoveries, the teaching. The impact that science has on the world around us is something I'm enthralled with. I don't think anyone could ever take that out of me.

An individual can make a difference, but a team can make a miracle.

Team synergy has an extraordinary impact on business results.

If there's one perk, it's being the quarterback of America's team and being able to make a difference off the field.

My individual role is to take the innings as deep as I can and perform in a way that benefits the team most.

An injured Zlatan is a pretty serious thing for any team.

I like to be involved as much as I can in the game, and in the middle, you're definitely the heartbeat of the team. When you're on the right, you can go minutes without seeing the ball, and that's a long time when you're out on the pitch.

Am I here because of my last name? To a degree. But I would ask people to judge me and my executive team on what we accomplish.

If you play well that's helping the team.

Every team has a player like Marco Reus who can make the difference.

There are several insights at the heart of the A's system that I think are wonderful for baseball. One, that it's a team game. That no one player is going to make that much of a difference to your team, so for god's sake don't go blow a quarter of your budget on one guy.

Sometimes in a team game, the entire spotlight is on one man.

I know it's a team game, but, you know, the great ones can do that - have their team involved and take over a game.

You can't do anything to help your team win when you don't play.

I've come to a point in my career where it doesn't matter if I dribble or nutmeg someone. The only thing that matters is whether I was decisive, did I put the ball in the back of the net today, and did it help the team win.

NBA teams like to see guys who can help a team win a game in a lot of fashions.

I think I can come in the game, bring a lot of energy on both sides of the ball. Just try to play my part and do anything to help the team win.