Quotes About Impact

Yao Ming is the best thing to happen to the NBA in a long time. He is just a beautiful person inside and out. The vision, the creativity, the gentleness of spirit … he has it all.

People come up to me all the time who saw Dad in 'Oklahoma!' or 'Pajama Game,' and they say they'll never forget it.

If you give a bad player time, he can play. If you give a good player time, he can kill you.

I hope when my time as Liverpool manager is over, I'm remembered as someone who improved the team and left the club in a better position than I inherited it.

The more time you invest in something, potentially, the deeper the emotional impact of the climax. It's true of relationships, too.

The first time I heard Bob Dylan, I was in the car with my mother listening to WMCA, and on came that snare shot that sounded like somebody'd kicked open the door to your mind.

Largely, as a result of the policies and priorities of the Reagan administration, more people are becoming poor and staying poor in this country than at any time since World War II.

You don't need to be legendary all the time. You can just be legendary for 10 minutes a day.

The only time people turned to watch her go by was when she hurtled past them as she fell.

You know, if I tried to change the minds of everyone who I thought needed changing, I'd never have time to do anything else.

I mean if it wasn't for The Beatles, none of this, none of the music we listen to would even exist. They're my favourite band of all time.

I want to be around for a long time, I don't want to be a flash in the pan. I hope I'll be 50 years old and still making music.

I think some of the most significant things happen in history when you get the right people in the right place at the right time and I think that's what we are.

We're often told that we live in a globalized world, and we talk about it all the time, but people don't stop to think about what it means.

The more connected that individual is to an issue they care about, the higher probability there is they will stay involved over a longer period of time.

The only biodiversity we're going to have left is Coke versus Pepsi. We're landscaping the whole world one stupid mistake at a time.

Also consider that someday, when you're dead and rotted, kids with their baby teeth will sit in their time-geography class and laugh about how stupid you were.

Every time we burn a gallon of gas or an acre of rain forest, aren't we killing the future to preserve the present?

Every time I make a movie, I'm prepared for it to become influential and career-defining - but I have no control over these things.

Finding a good cause is incredibly hard and time-consuming.

You can't quite believe what you are hearing - and it's not necessarily something that you can listen to all the time because it's too intense - but it changes the way you go about making music.

We all have such a finite time to leave the world better than we found it.

Writers change the world one heart, one mind, at a time. That should be enough to keep us going.

If you have too good a time writing hostile reviews, you'll injure not only your sensibility but your soul.