Quotes about Impact

When making decisions most people ask, 'Will it help me or my family now or the next shareholders' meeting or my next election campaign?' The hallmark of wisdom is asking, 'What effects will the decision I make today have on future generations? On the health of the planet?

How do we get people to heed the dire warnings of the people on the ground who have been fighting this danger for so long? How do we get them to take action?

When we feel we can make a difference, and we're given the means to do so, positive outcomes can happen that in turn allow hope to prevail.

It is important to take action and to realize that we Can make a difference, and this will encourage others to take action and then we realize we are not alone and our cumulative actions truly make an even greater difference. This is how we spread the Light. And this, of course, makes us all even more hopeful.

Help people realize that their actions, however small they may seem, will truly make a difference. The cumulative effect of thousands of ethical actions can help to save and improve our world for future generations. And why would you bother to take action if you did not truly hope that it would make a difference?

But it's the way we have used the intellect that has made the mess, not the intellect per se.

There are over seven billion of us today.

I want to thank you for that. Personally. Whether you knew it at that time or not, you had a great deal to do with shaping the life and character of the man I have come to love.

Unlike financial impropriety, which needs to be proven, a charge of sexual loutishness and aggressiveness in and of itself can finish you off. Does the man match the charge? To be the kind of man who would be accused of being so gross is guilt enough.

My job is to make grown men cry, to blow people's minds and elevate them, make them transcend and unlock emotions that have been repressed by life, their job, situation - that's what I do.

Why doesn't anyone care that the schools in Harlem have been unsuccessful for half a century? Why is this not a big deal? To me, it's a terrible deal.

My research for 'Adam' affected me profoundly, particularly the research into evil's underbelly. We tend not to think about evil until it pokes its head out of the air about us and then it tends to scare us silly. As well it should.