Making Impact Quotes

#1. You want to be the guy who makes an impact in every game. In this sport it's all about results-winning games and making the playoffs.

Martin St. Louis

#2. There was a time when fame meant that you were either someone who is really gifted in your field or you were making an impact or you are famous because you were a really horrible person, you know? But now, you can become famous by eating a frog. It's just not the same thing.

Debbie Allen

#3. Making disciples by going, baptizing, and teaching people the Word of Christ and then enabling them to do the same thing in other people's lives - this is the plan God has for each of us to impact nations for the glory of Christ

David Platt

#4. In this business, it is about making an impact.

Randy Orton

#5. Conscious capitalism is about more than simply making money - although it's about that too. It's about creating a successful business that also connects supporters to something that matters to them and that has great impact in the world.

Blake Mycoskie

#6. Actually, guest star roles are really hard. Since you have to walk into a show where the cast has been working together for a long period of time, it can be a real challenge. And you have to feel your way around that while still making an impact on the overall effect of the show.

Jane Badler

#7. As a developer, it's a great feeling knowing you have made an impact. There's also a lot of responsibility that goes with that: you have to really put the city's needs first. It's not all about making money.

Stephen M. Ross

#8. Seemingly minor yet persistent things penetrate the mind over time making it difficult to ever realize the impact; hence, though quite unfortunate, the most dangerous forms of corruption are those that are subtle and below the radar.

Criss Jami

#9. We rob ourselves when we make decisions in the moment with no thought of how those decisions will impact our futures.

Andy Stanley

#10. At the end of the day, the Grammys are about recognizing genres that are making an impact.

Keith Urban

#11. News Corporation, today, reaches people at home and at work ... when they're thinking ... when they're laughing ... and when they are making choices that have enormous impact. The unique potential.. and duty.. of a media company are to help its audiences connect to the issues that define our time.

Rupert Murdoch

#12. Everybody we meet has an influence on us and an impact - good or bad. And I think that's why we have to be careful with the way we handle people because what we're doing is making an impact.

Ernie Harwell

#13. The needs of the people around you should your utmost priority

Sunday Adelaja

#14. Media is very different from financial services. People are very fickle and very vocal. They believe that things should be one way and not the other. It's still very rewarding to build products for huge audiences. It feels like you're making an impact.

Max Levchin

#15. The goal of 'Data Detectives' is to spark the imagination of students around the globe by making them think about new technologies that will impact humanity in ways similar to language and art.

Rick Smolan

#16. Everybody does good things, but I'm talking about making major changes in the educational system that would impact an entire race. I'm talking about stopping these young gang members from killing one another. I'm talking about keeping prisons from overflowing.

Jim Brown

#17. There are so many local nonprofits making a positive impact every day, and yet, oftentimes we don't hear enough about them or their needs.

Sylvia Mathews Burwell

#18. The fear of making a decision is the result of fearing to make a mistake - the truth is, the fear of mistakes has a greater impact on you than making the mistakes.

Bob Proctor

#19. My goal is to make furniture that people can be comfortable living with. If you're not preoccupied with making an impact with your designs, chances are something that looks good today will look good tomorrow.

Sam Maloof

#20. We want to make an impact on the world, but we end up making or selling playthings that are developed to keep us distracted and designed to deconstruct. We have turned the activities that were meant to be the stuff of life into mere means of subsisting in it.

Susan Neiman

#21. Relative to most of the energy and material flows on Earth, the machinations of humankind are puny. The planet's powers are much, much bigger than our own. But in a few sensitive places, we're making an impact on a planetary scale, and that impact is not a good one.

Donella Meadows

#22. If you can get to a girl and make a difference in her life, you're actually going to have a greater impact on a woman's life. If you don't get to her as a girl, you may not be able ever to help her as a woman.

Kathy Calvin

#23. You can never tell what type of impact you may make on another's life by your actions or lack of action. Some times just with a smile on the street to a passing stranger can make a difference we could never imagine.

Ed Foreman

#24. No matter how strong or strong-willed you are, you cannot live a stressful, maxed-out life without that pace eventually biting you in the butt. It is necessary to take breaks, set parameters, and be kind to yourself if you want to continue making an impact in your little corner of the world.

Cynthia Mendenhall

#25. Don't just settle for surviving; Settle to make impacts. Life is deliberate; It's about making a difference!

Israelmore Ayivor

#26. Don't walk through life just playing football. Don't walk through life just being an athlete. Athletics will fade. Character and integrity and really making an impact on someone's life, that's the ultimate vision, that's the ultimate goal - bottom line.

Ray Lewis

#27. At a relatively early age, I began to believe that building a business was perhaps the greatest opportunity for making an impact, because it's a tool for making a change in the world.

Elizabeth Holmes

#28. For me, it's not about sacking the quarterback. It's about changing the course of the game. It's causing a crucial fumble at a crucial time. It's making a tackle for a loss when the opposing team needs to gain one or two yards for the first down. I look at myself as a sudden-impact player.

Simeon Rice

#29. It doesn't matter how Many, or Few people you are inspiring as long as it's making a great impact.

Ira N. Barin

#30. I've always had a philosophy that position doesn't define power. Impact defines power. What impact are you making on people? What impact are you making on business?

Mindy Grossman

#31. I definitely wanted to earn my freedom. But the primary motivation wasn't making money, but making an impact.

Sean Parker

#32. When you walk around braced for impact, you're dramatically decreasing your chances. Your chances to avoid the outcome you fear, your chances to make a difference, and your chances to breathe and connect.

Seth Godin

#33. I'm talking to people all of the time. So it hasn't really had a big impact. Access is never my main concern anyway. If you keep digging and making phone calls you can get stories and not have to rely on the good graces of the Pentagon spokesperson. I am not in his good graces.

Michael Hastings

#34. For me, philanthropic return on investment is about making the biggest impact possible on fellow human beings, regardless of country, race or religion.

Bobby Sager

#35. We all know the place you're in has a big impact on how you feel. How you feel has an impact on the quality of work. Why wouldn't we put a lot of effort into making the place we work as efficient and productive and pleasant as possible?

Jesse Schell

#36. I used to tweet, but it's an act of futility. You're not really making any impact, and if you find yourself in a mood when you wanna be a bit controversial and you post something, you suddenly realise, 'Oh my God!' because you've opened yourself up to a bunch of criticism from strangers.

Sylvester Stallone

#37. The fact that books today are mostly a string of words makes it easier to forget the text. With the impact of the iPad and the future of the book being up for re-imagination, I wonder whether we'll rediscover the importance of making texts richer visually.

Joshua Foer

#38. In programming when you're making a change you have to know all the affected places, and you have to be able to model in your head what the performance impact will be.

Bill Gates

#39. It really matters whether people are working on generating clean energy or improving transportation or making the Internet work better and all those things. And small groups of people can have a really huge impact.

Larry Page

#40. Don't just be making a living; make a life and leave an indelible footstep wherever you step.

Israelmore Ayivor

#41. When we think about lung cancer, the biggest environmental factor is without doubt smoking. Um, that would make a huge impact and has made a huge impact on the incidence of lung cancer. We have to keep pushing that and making it clear to everybody why smoking is so dangerous.

Laurie Glimcher

#42. We simply argue that climate change consequences was one of the impacts, but interestingly enough, even though a major effort was made in 2008 to try and resurrect the problem over food, now the consequences of the civil war are making the situation even worse.

Chris Barrie

#43. Focus on money and we will make money. Focus on impact and we will make an impact.

Simon Sinek

#44. Stayed. I feel like life happens to other people, and I drift in and out of their lives without ever making any kind of impact. I want to matter to someone.

Sarra Manning

#45. Music leaves such a big impression. I always wondered, 'Man, if I grew up in Nashville, would I be making Country records now?' I honestly feel like Chicago had such a big impact on me.

Kaskade

#46. The industrial processes in use today were developed at a time when no one had to consider what the environmental impact was. Who cared? But making ecological concerns matter to a company's bottom line will help it do the research and development that will reinvent everything we buy.

Daniel Goleman

#47. Life is about making an impact, not making an income.

Kevin Kruse

#48. The good kind of spin - backspin - comes from hitting the ball cleanly, then making a divot after impact.

Ernie Els

#49. Climate is not responding to greenhouse gases in the way we thought it might. If increasing carbon dioxide is in fact increasing climate change, its impact is smaller than natural variation. People are being misled by people making money out of this.

Chris De Freitas

#50. Right before I start the putter back, I think about making solid contact. This brings your attention to the back of the ball and helps keep your head still at impact, which is a must. Many amateurs take a peek down the line too soon, and that can cause all sorts of mis-hits.

Ernie Els

#51. I want to change the pop world one sequin at a time. Artists tend to take themselves way too seriously and don't enjoy the fun of making an impact on culture. I just have a good time and sequins represent a good time.

Lady Gaga

#52. We do make a difference - one way or the other. We are responsible for the impact of our lives. Whatever we do with whatever we have, we leave behind us a legacy for those who follow.

Stephen Covey

#53. It turns out that the people who like their jobs the most are also the ones who are doing the best work, making the greatest impact, and changing the most.

Seth Godin

#54. The most powerful decision-making part of the audience is women. Boys have a lot of impact on the industry, but it's often women who impact what stories get made.

Nina Jacobson

#55. The Stickiness Factor says that there are specific ways of making a contagious message memorable; there are relatively simple changes in the presentation and structuring of information that can make a big difference in how much of an impact it makes.

Malcolm Gladwell

#56. Also, I knew that the impact of Motorcycle Diaries was going to be so resonant for all of us who went through the experience of making it that I didn't want to do anything that could reflect it.

Walter Salles

#57. I like tackling problems that I can see making an impact on real people and real businesses immediately.

Seth Priebatsch

#58. My retirement is both voluntary and involuntary. One reason, and this is voluntary, is the impact of television. All old movies are turning up on television, and frankly, making pictures doesn't interest me anymore. Another reason is that the film industry is in a declining state.

Randolph Scott

#59. Small decisions made over times make big impacts.

Vishwas Chavan

#60. Sustained success means making the greatest possible impact over the longest period of time

Marcus Buckingham

#61. Some scripts you read and say, 'I've just got to do this' and you find a way of making it work. Some things you turn down because of the impact on family.

Miranda Otto

#62. Your life matters. You can't live through a day without making an impact on the world. And what's most important is to think about the impact of your actions on the world around you.

Jane Goodall

#63. The art of making a film and its content are far more interesting to me than the result or impact.

Robert Redford

#64. Ten responsible and rational young citizens are sufficient to clean up the mess of a thousand old superstitious citizens.

Abhijit Naskar

#65. With acting, you are a small part of the creative process, and sometimes it is hard to feel like you are making an impact.

John Cho

#66. Anyone who's making a huge impact or speaking out about what they believe in or who's brave enough to be themselves is a superhero to me.

Emma Stone

#67. Being an author isn't just about making money or hitting the Amazon Bestsellers list, it's about the positive impact you and your stories make in peoples lives. Even if it's just one person.

Shannon Eckrich

#68. Find the interest of people and help them achieve their calling

Sunday Adelaja

#69. I learn stuff from making music every time I go in the studio. I'm continuing to try to find new ways to play in a song or be in a song and have a positive impact on a song.

Stone Gossard

#70. One of the things that's fascinating about making movies is a movie when it's done and you start showing it to people, it reveals its impact, which is often times not what you thought.

Peter Berg

#71. Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence.
(Harvard Business School definition of leadership)

Sheryl Sandberg

#72. Maybe it's an issue of being unable or unwilling to realize that we can actually impact things sufficiently to change things, rather than seeing ourselves as being exiled to some distant side line of life where we can do nothing more than sheepishly root for a life that's far too far away to touch.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#73. My impact on the game was going out there and making things happen.

Rickey Henderson

#74. Develop your own skills and styles. In music, designing, electronics, etc., you may have a peculiar way of exposing your dreams in an uncommon way

Israelmore Ayivor

#75. It's just nice to reflect sometimes and remember the things and people that are making a huge impact at any given moment.

Stephen Richards

#76. You wanna be remembered for making an impact and changing things. 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.

Ice Cube

#77. Locate the problems in people's lives with the intention of finding a solution

Sunday Adelaja

#78. Poverty is more than a material experience; it's a psychological state as well, one that is infused with anxiety. And decision-making is very complex because every decision you make has an impact on your future and survival.

Ann Cotton