Quotes About Impact

Masayoshi Son is one of the most innovative and impactful thinkers and problem-solvers of our generation.

We're communicators, we're problem solvers, and we're lateral thinkers, and there's nothing that can't be improved with that. The world needs us, and we want to be needed.

Advertising is full of great thinkers. This is a powerful industry and does a lot more than we take credit for.

You may not be thinking about politics, but politics is thinking about you.

You may not like me. You may think I'm cocky or arrogant. But you will be thinking about me.

If I'm speaking to the streets and for the streets, they gon' respond. I don't even be thinking about blowing up.

They'll forget all the rubbish when I've gone, and they'll remember the football. If only one person thinks I'm the best player in the world, that's good enough for me.

Let a bill, or law, be read, in the one branch or the other, every one instantly thinks how it will affect his constituents.

I want to be part of a different kind of celebrity, one that thinks not just about charity but policy.

As a prominent trans person, you hope that someone feels they know you and then thinks of you at the polls; you hope to impact the way they act when they encounter a trans person in real life.

Every fighter thinks about their legacy, and I'm not any different.

I don't think anyone in the media thinks strategically about society.

That taught me one lesson which is that you're naive to believe that bands can change the world. Bands are very naive to think that just if their audience thinks that they can change the world, that they can. That was quite a lesson for my career, really.

Nobody ever thinks a song is about them. Well, not when it's mean. When it's a good song everybody thinks it's about them. And when it's mean, nobody thinks it's about them.

America somehow thinks that leadership relates to governance, and it certainly does. But society is much bigger than governance, and some of the truly great leadership of our society is outside the governance arena.

To really change the way society thinks, you have to give your entire being to it until there's nothing left.

Who really cares what a celebrity thinks on a given issue?

Why doesn't Apple stop for a year and make medical devices? When people talk about technology, that's where I start to get a little hot under the collar because I know that it's the key to solving some of the world's biggest problems. Having a faster, thinner telephone is not one of the world's biggest problems.

President Obama's farewell speech soared, towered, dragged. True, it was longer than Reagan's, Clinton's and GWB's speeches combined. If it got any longer, it would have qualified as a third term.

The first act is writing, the second act is filming, the third act is releasing. If you have to partake in the third act, it hurts the first act of the next one. It's like a prizefight. You get punched.

Concussions happen. If not on every play, then they happen like every other, every third play, you know.

We're finding a third way for biologists to change the world. It's very hard to change the world when the only directions available in biology are academia and the pharmaceutical industry.

The doctor who pulled me out at birth damaged my second and third vertebrae. But without those tugs, I probably would have been a regular guy selling insurance in Texas or something.

Food production has affected the environment more than any other activity humans have engaged in. Humanity devotes more land to food production than anything else - roughly a third of the surface area of the earth, much of which was once forest but has been converted by humans into farms or grazing lands.