Quotes About Impact

I think that's why 'Game of Thrones' is such a watercooler talking point: because there are these moments that are beautiful and terrible at the same time.

Game of Thrones' was my first big role and to be a part of that is definitely life-changing. It doesn't matter who you are, it will change your life forever.

There isn't any actor or anybody involved in 'Game of Thrones' who is bigger than the show.

I don't want a gamer to feel like they have to commit their whole life to changing the world.

The importance of the leader has always mattered, whether it was Indira Gandhi, V. P. Singh, or Narendra Modi.

Attenborough's 'Gandhi' shook me as a filmmaker.

I see my shows like Gandhi, and I've got little baby Gandhis, and they are changing the world. I know that I'm a bit delusional about that, but I do think of them like Gandhi. They are not celebrities: they are like Gandhi and Mother Teresa.

Eventually, most people felt MoMA had filled a very important gap.

If a student has access to a great school, Khan Academy can supercharge it. It should help a well-resourced school, and if you don't have that, then Khan Academy can have even a bigger impact. But I don't see it as replacing the actual schools... we want to empower teachers and fill in the gaps.

If you put out garbage, you turn people into garbage.

I have always been interested in garbage: What it says about us. What in there embarrasses us, and what we can't bear to part with. Where it goes and how much of it there is. How it endures. What it might be like to work with it every day.

When you go to places like Gary and Detroit, you see the economic problem in this country and who it's really affecting.

Words matter. Words can be a fire to the gasoline of disturbed minds.

I want to be an impact player and come out of the gates fast.

All the best companies quickly go downhill after the departure of people like Bill Gates - even when such very able people have tried very very hard to avoid exactly this problem.

Part of our job as quote-unquote 'celebrities' is that we can gather people around things that are important. I think it should be a requisite - there should be a clause in the contract that you have to give back.

We gave the world dab fever!

I'm not sure gay marriage was an issue that made or didn't make any single election that I can think of.

I was quite a successful evangelist. I've had people write to me and say, 'Gee, I'm a Christian because of you and I hear you're not a Christian, that's shocking to me.' I don't take these things lightly, but that's who I am. I can't change it.

As far as geek culture, I didn't grow up in the comic con geek culture lane, then I started doing Comic Cons seeing the impact of it. The character, Rufio living on.

It feels wistful to imagine a time when people didn't go about their daily routine with the assumption that at any moment another massive media technology will be dumped on us by some geek in California.

The world belongs to those who want to make a difference, and gender is no barrier.

There are many things that matter much more than an editor's gender in shaping the direction of the leadership.

The question is not whether but how do the actions of a given gene influence some interesting aspect of behavior.