Quotes About Impact

You look back at people like Elvis and The Beatles and still get their music because it's timeless. That's what I want.

It's always different when a guy gets drafted and developed and comes up in his first organization and makes an impact. There's something special and timeless about it.

A classic song is timeless. You'll never outlive a classic song. I'll never put The Beatles 'In My Life' on one day and say, 'That doesnt move me any more.'

I don't even have to drop an album and I pack out shows. That goes with timeless music.

Social media is so immediate and in your face that I know many people have been helped and many people who have been traumatised by their entire timeline filled with 'me too.'

Beyond being timely, an obituary has a more subjective duty: to assess its subject's impact.

In dedicating his estate to the honoring of endeavors that benefit mankind, Alfred Nobel expressed a lifelong concern that is even more timely in 1972 than it was in his lifetime.

I believe what has kept us relevant over the years is not just the fashion which has sometimes been more timely than other times but has also been our messages, which have consistently reflected the context of the world we're living in and what was happening and that which was affecting what we were thinking and what was inspiring us.

The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.

I named all my sons George Edward Foreman. And I tell people, 'If you're going to get hit as many times as I've been hit by Mohammad Ali, Joe Frazier, Ken Norton, Evander Holyfield - you're not going to remember many names.'

There are times when being scandalous or provocative can help bring focus to issues of major concern.

When I listen to 'Nevermind,' I hate the production, but there's something about it that almost makes me cry at times.

Billy Graham is one of my great lifetime heroes. I think he epitomizes the essence of what a Christian leader should be. I have participated in some of his crusades a couple of times in Atlanta. I've seen the profound impact he's had on me personally, and on other people who were not Christians and accepted Christ as Savior.

We look into mirrors but we only see the effects of our times on us - not our effects on others.

What I will say though is that I've got quite a big back, from doing pull-ups, and that will make your punches more solid. But in terms of the hardness of your punch, it's about timing and speed.

You never know when the timing is going to hit in a such a way that you're going to make a difference.

If a film is good, it will do well irrespective of the timing. Period.

It is what you do from now on that will either move our civilization forward a few tiny steps, or else... begin to march us steadily backward.

I have a car, but I don't use it very much - only when I go for my shoots - so the carbon footprint is tiny.

Normally, if someone's legacy will outlast their life, it's apparent when they die. On the day when Alexander the Great, or Caesar Augustus, or Napoleon, or Socrates, or Muhammad died, their reputations were immense. When Jesus died, his tiny, failed movement appeared clearly at an end.

Prediction just means you saw where the world might be going: ho-hum. Influence, though - ah. Influence, direct and acknowledged, means you actually steered the world, even if only a tiny bit.

I know I'm only one human being and I'm only making one tiny contribution and it's nothing more than that.

It's an extraordinary thing, this tiny little province of Northern Ireland, where carnage happened. And I was part of it. I grew up in it.

The economy is rough. I think that affects everyone from big filmmakers to tiny filmmakers.