Quotes About Impact

The most profound memory I have from my childhood is burning down my house at 6 years old.

My father's mother really had a profound influence on me. She literally began her day with an hour of reading. But the most fundamental impact was education.

Growing up in a political family, I soon learned that what happens in our home, school, neighborhood and government has a profound effect on us all.

Changing the world in a profound and beneficial way is not enough to put a dint in bureaucracies which operate on their own dynamics.

Certain people, coaches, have a profound, positive outcome on somebody's life. And Al Davis had a profound, positive outcome on my life.

Chuck Berry had a very profound impact on me. The man was a genius.

Even a single Justice can have a profound impact on the country.

My eyebrows make a more profound impact on other people than they do on me. I just let 'em grow.

As a former CEO and senior executive, there was a time when I did not quite understand the profound impact a CEO has on the culture of a company, even though I always knew culture was important.

BRICS meetings are keenly watched world over, and our decisions have profound impact globally.

Influential people have a profound impact on everyone they encounter. Yet, they achieve this only because they exert so much influence inside, on themselves.

I went and saw Letterman when I was 15, and that had a profound impact on me.

Drag Race' has changed my career and life profoundly.

Who can doubt that between the English and the French, between the Scotch and the Irish, there are differences of character which have profoundly affected and still affect the course of history?

The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.

I think the way to understand Teach for America is as a leadership development program.

You program music with an image and then people are desensitized.

What in the hell would they do with the farm program without us?

Over all these years, I have never had a hit movie, never had a hit television programme and never had a hit record. To my way of thinking, that means success has not been achieved. I have made no mark of my own creation. This is something to be considered.

You don't have to be a nerd or a programmer or a network engineer to make a difference.

Since I began presenting programmes about black history my life has become a constant impromptu focus group. I am stopped in the street by people who want to talk about the histories those documentaries explore.

Doing and making positive programming for young people is so important to me, and I will keep doing it.

I don't think people realize the extent to which TV networks are hurt when they carry public broadcasting. I think the estimate is that they lose a half-million dollars for a half day's programming.

Whether you're a programming prodigy or the office manager holding it all together, technology empowers small groups of passionate people with an astonishing degree of leverage to make the world a better place.