Quotes About Impact

At the end of the day, whether it's on film or on stage or for a crowd of however many at Kenwood House, my job is to make sure people have a good time and come away with a feeling and a story.

A lot of time, you play well and you do good work, but you are not on a good team, so it really doesn't mean anything.

For me, doing good work is important.

There's only so much I can do to effect change - and really, the thing that I can do that's most effective is to work and to do good work. That, I feel, is speaking out in its own way.

I want to do good work in the world.

What's important is to do good work and interesting roles.

As an actor, you think to yourself, 'I want to do good work,' but you also want the work that you do to make an impact in some way.

I believe that if I do good work, something in the universe will fall right for it.

My work has never been about me, and I've never made a big deal about my race. I've actually tried hard to avoid ever making a big deal out of it and have, instead, simply tried to do good work that matters.

Should each individual snowflake be held accountable for the avalanche?

By and large a good rule for finding out is this: the kind of work God usually calls you to is the kind of work a) that you need most to do and b) the world most needs to have done. If you really get a kick out of your work, you've presumably met requirement a), but if your work is writing TV deodorant commercials, the chances are you've missed requirement b).

The life thatI touch for good or ill will touch another life, and that in turn another, until who knows where the trembling stops or in what far place my touch will be felt.

Words spoken in deep love or deep hate set things in motion in the human heart that can never be reversed

The Gospel writers are not really interested primarily in the facts of the birth but in the significance, the meaning for them of that birth just as the people who love us are not really interested primarily in the facts of our births but in what it meant to them when we were born and how for them the world was never the same again, how their whole lives were changed with new significance.

The real turning point in human history is less apt to be the day the wheel is invented or Rome falls than the day a boy is born to a couple of hick Jews.

We've all had saints in our lives, by which I mean not plaster saints, not moral exemplars, not people setting for us a kind of suffocating good example, but I mean saints in the sense of life givers. People through knowing whom we become more alive.

words spoken in deep love or deep hate set things in motion within the human heart that can never be reversed.

The life I touch for good or ill will touch another life, and that in turn another, until who knows where the trembling stops or in what far place my touch will be felt.

We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.

For no man who lives at all lives unto himself. He either helps or hinders all who are in anywise connected to him.

They were great in their day and generation.

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.

All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity.

Some men are born posthumously.