Impact Quotes - Page 28

• The beliefs I was raised with - to respect animals and to be aware of nature, to understand that we share this planet with other creatures - have had a huge impact on me.

  Stella McCartney

  Animal, Belief, Share

  "Stella McCartney: 'Fashion people are pretty heartless'" by Jess Cartner-Morley, www.theguardian.com. October 4, 2009.

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• If there is something occurring that is so bad that it could be considered a crime against humanity, it has to be transmitted with anguish, with pain, and create an impact in people - upset them, shake them up, wake them out of their everyday routine.

  James Nachtwey

  Photography, Pain, Everyday Routine

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• 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

  Way, Scripts, Turns

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• The use of force, including beatings, undoubtedly has brought about the impact we wanted - strengthening the [occupied] population's fear of the Israeli Defense Forces.

  Yitzhak Rabin

  Population, Defense, Use

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• I like to dedicate myself wholeheartedly to a cause so that I have more impact. My goal is to shed light on the beauty of the ocean and how important it is for our planet.

  Hayden Panettiere

  Ocean, Light, Goal

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• Researchers can measure what kind of angles your legs take up during the day when they're just trailing around behind you in weightless conditions, and what kind of impacts you feel during your exercise. They're going to compare that with what we do on the ground.

  John L. Phillips

  Exercise, Legs, Behind You

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• The more I've done work with the IOC the more I've come to realize I'm really excited about this, the work that I'm doing and the impact that I can have if I'm fully committed to it.

  Angela Ruggiero

  Done, Realizing, Excited

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• The Women's Sports Foundation holds a unique position in developing opportunities for girls and women of all abilities to be active whether recreationally or competitively, and I'm excited to help lead the organization to impact even more lives. It is an honor to continue to build the legacy created by Billie Jean King and all of our leaders.

  Angela Ruggiero

  Girl, Sports, Kings

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• Recent research suggests that New Deal programs may actually have had their primary impact on the economy by influencing consumer and business expectations of future growth and inflation.

  Christina Romer

  Expectations, Growth, Research

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• To fix Social Security, we should first stop using the Consumer Price Index to adjust benefits for inflation. Using the C.P.I. overstates the impact of inflation and has also led to larger increases in benefits for Social Security recipients than the income gains of typical American workers.

  Steven Rattner

  Income, Benefits, Gains

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• I have to say that movies have as much impact on me as music. And that I learned as much about narrative from movies as I did from reading novels, how to arrange stories, how to juxtapose things.

  Dana Spiotta

  Reading, Stories, Narrative

  "Dana Spiotta on living the creative life". Interview with Jacket Copy, latimesblogs.latimes.com. August 3, 2011.

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• In the '90s there were these great end of the world movies like 'Armageddon' and 'Deep Impact'... I always liked the idea of what people on the ground are doing, not so much the people who are trying to stop the world from ending.

  Lorene Scafaria

  Ideas, People, Trying

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• I just try to live a really simple, natural life, because obviously, life has an impact on your voice.

  K. D. Lang

  Simple, Voice, Trying

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• There's something about the impact of a big screen that means something to me, even though I realize almost every film is fated to be seen for a year in theaters, and then forever after on television.

  Kenneth Lonergan

  Mean, Years, Forever

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I know who I am as an artist and I know what my sound is, but I wanted to know what I could do in order to take it to that next level. So the experiences I had last year of moving to California and traveling to places like Rome and Nicaragua where I met a lot of people just had a really big impact in my life.

  Kate Voegele

  Moving, Artist, Who I Am

  "Kate Voegele 'went on journey for new LP'" by Jennifer Still, www.digitalspy.com. April 27, 2011.

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• The very best thing you can do is to try to write a song that has some sort of impact.

  Dar Williams

  Song, Writing, Trying

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• Family is very important to me because that is the footprint we perpetuate. That is, the ripple in the water when the rock first impacts the pool and it is those waves, that energy that one produces, that determines our direction.

  Larry Wilcox

  Rocks, Water, Important

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Some artists are definitely trying to do different styles. Some, not a lot. But even from what you've seen [of] Outkast, Kanye West, and Lil' Wayne, and different people expressing their way of evolving in hip-hop. In the evolution of hip-hop, they're doing different things. And you've seen hip-hop have more of a global presence and impact on the world.

  Will Ferrell

  Artist, People, Hip Hop

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The impact of armed conflict on children is everyone's responsibility. And it must be everyone's concern.

  Graca Machel

  Children, Responsibility, Conflict

  Graça Machel (2001). “The Impact of War on Children: A Review of Progress Since the 1996 United Nations Report on the Impact of Armed Conflict on Children”, p.13, C. HURST & CO. PUBLISHERS

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• The artist never really has any control over the impact of his work. If he starts thinking about the impact of his work, then he becomes a lesser artist.

  Aasif Mandvi

  Artist, Thinking, Ifs

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Nanotechnology in medicine is going to have a major impact on the survival of the human race.

  Bernard Marcus

  Race, Medicine, Survival

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• Technology has changed things, same as everywhere. But the economy has changed drastically. When Jamaica first won independence, our dollar was stronger than the U.S. dollar. Now ours is about 90 to one. That's had a big impact on crime and poverty.

  Damian Marley

  Technology, Jamaica, Independence

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Proponents of efficiency standards argue that they save consumers and businesses money, reduce energy use, and reduce emissions. But families and businesses already understand how energy costs impact their lives and make decisions accordingly.

  Gina McCarthy

  Decision, Energy Use, Cost

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• When discussing overall impacts on employment, it is important not to overlook the new technologies and industries that can be driven by pollution control standards.

  Gina McCarthy

  Technology, Pollution Control, Important

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• Each of my novels features a protagonist undertaking a difficult personal journey. On the way, each of these characters - mostly female - discovers something about herself and at the same time makes an impact on other people's lives.

  Juliet Marillier

  Character, Journey, People

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