Impact Quotes

Early in my life I had made a pact with myself. I would never eat anything that moved when I cooked it, excited the dog, or inflated upon impact with my teeth.

If I can make an impact, I want to help some kids and bridge the gap between soccer and celebrity in America.

So many people think you have to be rich and famous to really create an impact, and it's just not true. Especially when it comes to environmentalism.

Human beings are definitely changing the planet, but how much impact they are having on climate, I don't know and I don't care.

I was seen dancing at school by a director, who asked me to be in a TV play. And it had a huge impact. So I think thats what really started me off.

Embrace yourself, create a plan of action and of course, ponder the impact of your thoughts.

Nothing I've ever written has been motivated by trying to impact or influence anybody.

The greatest of mythologies divided its gods into creators, preservers and destroyers. Tidiness obviously belongs to the second category, which mitigates the terrific impact of the other two.

The original Star Wars ("A New Hope") has had the greatest impact on me of all the films I've ever watched. It's really what sparked something in me to want to make movies.

I'd like to go to Africa, away from water, away from what's normal for us. When you put yourself in those places your life looks so far away. It makes a big impact.

You should impact the greatest amount of people that you can in your life.

What you do and what you say has consequence and impact. Impact is determined by the intention behind your words and the intention behind your deeds.

I was 16 or something. [My aunt] broadened my understanding of what women could be like and do and that there's a big world out there. So she had a huge impact on me.

I don't really bust anybody publicly. It's much more efficient if I can impact the creators. So that's what we do. It's had a great impact.

The decisions we make in Washington have a direct impact on the people in our country, obviously.

The impact remains to be seen; I don't think we can measure the enduring impact of John Paul II, for example, for another hundred, perhaps two hundred, years.

I am very aware of the impact that television has on people, in changing perceptions.

There's no greater gift than thinking that you had some impact on the world, for the better.

To me, is the way to make the most impact - let the actions speak louder than the words.

The fingerprinting requirement affected only law-abiding citizens that want to buy firearms. It had no impact on Baltimore's criminal element at all.

One remembers different persons differently, some by the impact they have made on our emotions, and others by the impression they leave in our minds.

When you're a big enough part of the process that the Writers Guild gives you a lot of credit, that's a good thing. It tells me that I've had a significant impact on the film as a writer.

The reason nobody else in my business has any impact is because they're all comatose.

When we talk about the impact inside mathematics, and applications in the sciences, [Mandelbrot] is one of the most important figures of the last 50 years.

Dream study impacts culture. We are put in touch with the inner poet who dreams. We hear our inner, subjective response to the outer world. That helps spiritualize our lives.

For me, speaking to anyone - on a stage, in an elevator - I am looking for impact and connection. The same goes for writing.

I want to go after the pharmaceutical companies like Valeant, and Turns that are increasing prices without any regard to the impact on people's health.

And not go to things that sound good that really did not have the kind of impact that we would want. Who disagrees with keeping neighborhoods safe?

The world economy today is recovering slowly, and there are still some destabilising factors and uncertainties. The underlying impact of the international financial crisis is far from over.

Where life is fully and consciously lived in our own neighborhood, we are cushioned a little from the impact of great far-off events which should be of only marginal concern to us.

You wanna be remembered for making an impact and changing things.And I guess for the good or for the bad, it don't matter. But I guess you just wanna be remembered when it's all said and done.

[Social] science fiction is that branch of literature which is concerned with the impact of scientific advance on human beings.

Among Hindu groups, none has made as great an impact on America as the Vedanta Society.

Make sure with the time that you have, you really make an impact on people.

My mom and dad have had a huge impact on my life, so I look up to them. As a actor, I would say Hugh Jackman.

...there is no evidence that casual exposure to secondhand smoke has any impact on your life expectancy.

[Photography] puts a human face on issues which, from afar, can appear abstract or ideological or monumental in their global impact.

The stock market has an insidious effect on C.E.O.s' moods, because of its impact not just on their companies but on their own bank accounts.

If it is a small rate raises, [there will be] no impact.

There's been a 40-year effort on the far right to build up think tanks, academic programs, advocacy groups, to push a particular ideology. That's really where the impact is that people don't see.

Watch out for trees and traffic. The change is slow, the impact great, yet we miss the one and mistake the other.

Artists are taught to be humble about their impact, especially in folk music. It's so ingrained that I have a hard time even thinking I had any impact other than what a normal hit song would have.

I've learned how much of an impact that music has on people. I get messages all the time from people telling me what my music means to them and what it has done to them.

I believe that it's vital for children and teens to be educated, to be given information to help them understand the impacts humans are having on our water, soil, and air.

You can gauge the limitations of a person's life by the size of the problems that get him or her down. You can measure the impact a person's life has by the size of the problems he or she solves.

When you listen to most of the records that really had an impact on you, they always seem to be from a different era.

Many of the museum directors who make an impact personally curate exhibitions.

I think people tend to be very myopic and they dont understand how their actions impact others.

When I was fresh out of law school, I had a burning desire to do something important, to have an impact in some way, but I didn't know what it was.

The impact of black music and black art forms on American culture is really difficult to appreciate.