Quotes About Impact

Every time they have tried to cut appropriations, they get a wakeup call.

Every time I reach a new audience, that means I'm doing something right.

I was seven years old the first time I saw Michael Jackson. That changed everything.

The only reason to build a website is to change someone. If you can't tell me the change and you can't tell me the someone, then you're wasting your time.

Time is running out to deal with climate change.

I want to go working with good people on something that's good, because otherwise it's a big waste of time. I don't have that much time.

The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.

Perhaps we should put up posters in such places reminding people that where they stand was underwater the last time that the Earth ran a 3°F fever.

I am working right at both the levels- with the most wealthy clients in the world, but also the poorest. I spend half my time designing for people that have nothing.

I am so honored to be named as one of Time's 100 most influential people.

Ted Kennedy's achievements as a senator have towered over his time, changing the lives of far more Americans than remember the name Mary Jo Kopechne.

You can have a role in a movie that was originally something minor in terms of screen time, and all of a sudden we see something and go, wow, that's cool.

Around the world, Gandhi, Nelson Mandela -- what they did was hard. It takes time. It takes more than a single term. It takes more than a single president. It takes more than a single individual.

A screen actor is compensated in the knowledge that millions will see his performance at one time, where only hundreds will see it on the stage.

'Captain Fantastic' was the first album in history to enter the (American) album chart at number one. We did it for a second time after that. Now that's not a boast, that's frightening.

I think one of the most groundbreaking inventions of all time is the jackhammer.

People don't remember you for all of the good things you do. They remember the time you blew a giant green snot bubble out your nose.

So you start one person at a time. Change one person, you can change a village.

Spend time doing things that matter.

Great men hallow a whole people, and lift up all who live in their time.

Knowledge isn't evil, in and of itself. It's what people choose to do with their knowledge that makes the difference. I think it matters what you want knowledge for . And what you're willing to sacrifice to get it.

want to change history?" Luke made a stab at humor.

is any history really all that ancient?...Doesn't every moment from the past affect the present?

It does not take a long time to fall to the ground, even from nine stories up. But it took a lifetime for Yetta. It took every single one of the last moments of her life.