Impact On Society Quotes

• As I have said, the first thing is to be honest with yourself. You can never have an impact on society if you have not changed yourself... Great peacemakers are all people of integrity, of honesty, but humility.

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  Nelson Mandela

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• Creating festivals made a major impact on society in general because you couldn't draw large crowds indoors. At Newport we were soon drawing crowds of 10,000 and there weren't halls that could hold that many people.

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  George Wein

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• I have not been part of an active counterculture movement, as it is not the approach that I have personally pursued to create a qualitatively beneficial and meaningful impact on society.

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  Al Seckel

  "An Interesting Walk Through Counterculture" by Al Seckel, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 2, 2009.

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• So, if I'm no cheerleader of sports, why write a chapter about it? Sports do have some positive impact on society. They solve problems, such as how to get inner-city kids to spend $175 on shoes. They serve as a backdrop for some of our most memorable commercials. And they remain the one and only relevant application of math. Not only that, but we have sports to thank for most of the last century's advances in manliness. The system starts in school, where gym class separates the men from the boys. Then those men are taught to be winners, or at least, losers that hate themselves.

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  Stephen Colbert

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• I believe I have a personal responsibility to make a positive impact on society.

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  Anthony S. Fauci

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• You can never have an impact on society if you have not changed yourself.

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  Nelson Mandela

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• Education opens the door to everything in terms of having a career and an impact on society and not being a slave to your job, really.

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  Naomie Harris

  Interview with Jeffrey Wright, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 23, 2013.

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• A lot more people will want to hear a 5-minute singing cartoon about Communism in China than will want to read that PhD thesis, and that's the power of it even if a lot of details will be missing - that's the reason something like that often has more impact on society.

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  Jeffrey Lewis

  Source: therumpus.net

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• If you approach a film with the feeling that you are going to have some impact on society then you're liable to get carried away with yourself. Alfred Hitchcock once told me, when I was analyzing a lot of things about his pictures, "Clint, you must remember, it's only a movie.

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  Clint Eastwood

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• It's not those who write the laws that have the greatest impact on society. It's those who write the songs.

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  Blaise Pascal

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• If we overregulate, over control, impose too many burdens and too much bureaucracy - or if we do it across the board, without taking into account the differences among businesses and their relative impact on society - that could make people risk-averse and dampen the entrepreneurial spirit.

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  Samuel J. Palmisano

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• Churches are having a limited impact on society because they fail to understand that the goal of the church is not the church itself but the kingdom.

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  Tony Evans

  Tony Evans (2013). “The Kingdom Agenda”, p.11, Moody Publishers

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