Quotes About Impact

Dodd-Frank has disproportionately burdened community banks, despite their having no role in the financial crisis.

Developments in financial markets can have broad economic effects felt by many outside the markets.

I think as a business it would be amazing if the euro was to collapse, but financially and economically I think that would be a bit of a tsunami for everybody to cope with.

Once in a while, a person finds his humanity in a way that astounds his contemporaries.

I feel that if you're going to do theater, you've really got to throw yourself into the deep end. You have to commit your whole life and soul to it to make it the best it could ever be because theater can truly change people in lots of different ways. But I also think it can bore people to death, and it's quite a fine line between those two things.

The book doesn't end when you finish writing it.

If you think you are a filmmaker... make a film, and then show it. You need to be able to finish what you started so it is presentable. When you screen it and see if your film has an effect on an audience, you will understand what it means to be a filmmaker.

I'm very often still very much alive for that other being and that other world long after the film is finished.

I like my characters to be ones I think about long after I've finished reading the script.

If you fire people, you fire customers.

When you can light your water on fire due to methane contamination in your ground water, what else can you do but laugh?

The person who gives you your first job is so important in any industry.

A first love is something that lasts forever in your heart. It's something that marks you.

First 2Pac song I heard was 'Brenda Got a Baby.' That was the first one. I didn't even hear it. I saw the video.

There is a huge body of evidence showing that people do better in their work when they know why they're doing it in the first place. They do better when they see what they're doing contributes to something in the world.

Every artist wants an audience, and it's incredible to me how books take on a life of their own and reach people whom you could never meet. That's what got me interested in writing in the first place.

I've seen firsthand how books can change people's lives. It happened to me.

Fiscal crises often turn into financial crises, dealing a blow to the real economy.

I am just a little fish in the sea. But I do understand that everything that I do could have a little impact.

Domestic house cats kill more fish than all the world's seals put together.

As a fighter, you know when you connect with a really good shot because you feel the impact on your fist.

You look at my career, when the fit was right, I contributed on the court.

You have to take responsibility for how you act. You can't fix everyone.

I think the best thing I can hope to achieve is to educate, or make aware, as many people as possible on how the little things they do every day really do affect our environment, and how easy it is to fix some of those things.