If brands can find a voice that matches them, and the artist embraces it, they can find a way that would serve them that doesn’t feel like a sellout to the artists and has dramatic impact for the brand. – Patrick Whitesell
When I started eBay, it was a hobby, an experiment to see if people could use the Internet to be empowered through access to an efficient market. I actually wasn’t thinking about it in terms of a social impact. – Pierre Omidyar
I just want to tell stories that have an impact on people. Somebody needs to have an impact because people are lost. People are really lost. – Rebecca De Mornay
Just the textures of things are really important to me as I’m writing; I think atmospherics and visuals can have such emotional impact if you can harness the thematic thread between how scenes look and how your characters feel. I like to tug on that thread. – Ransom Riggs
People underestimate the impact they can have on the process through contact with legislators. By being part of an organized group in an area that you have an interest in, you can multiply the impact of your own ideas. – Ralph Regula
In open source, you really have to be near the watershed to have an impact on the source code. Customers want to be near the key contributors to the code, not a level removed. – Peter Fenton
Despite their lack of visual impact, headline sex-appeal, and their ‘out of sight, out of mind’ nature, we should all care about aquatic dead zones because we are all connected to their causes and we all feel their impacts. – Philippe Cousteau, Jr.
My films express me, my sense of rhythm, my sense of impact, my sense of kinetic energy. I like films to move, but I like also clear storytelling and characters, and most of all, I like authentic emotion. – Paul Greengrass
Technology does more than delight, entertain and make our lives more convenient, it’s also an agent for social good. That is why it’s important for tech startups to stay informed about, and make a mark on, policies that impact them. – Ron Conway
I constantly deal with being called Shaft, and I vacillate back and forth with people coming up to me about it. But it never ceases to blow me away with the impact that character had on my life and my fans’ lives. – Richard Roundtree
The companies that are the most influential and most successful are the ones that care about impact and the influence they have on the world. – Paul Buchheit
Sooner or later, you will see a China-based company that really has a global impact, and I think Baidu has a chance to become one of those companies. We should be able to compete on a global basis. – Robin Li
In talking about the impact of ideas in one field on ideas in another field, one is always apt to make a fool of oneself. – Richard P. Feynman
My mother told me many stories about her childhood in Cuba. Living there had a profound impact on her and how she regards herself. – Rachel Kushner
I think I have made an impact in the workplace and I do believe that will prevail over any of the other things in the end. – Paula Jones
I had a group of Hispanic Americans come into my office in 1976 who worked in a Denver packing plant. They had just been fired by their employer who turned around and hired illegal aliens for a lot less money. That had a big impact on me. – Richard Lamm
They decided to no longer air my messages on ‘The Hour of Power.’ They felt they could have greater impact if they had lots of different preachers. ‘The Hour of Power’ owns the Crystal Cathedral, and the owners, in effect, evicted me… so that they could have other preachers on Sunday mornings. – Robert A. Schuller
The boomers’ biggest impact will be on eliminating the term ‘retirement’ and inventing a new stage of life… the new career arc. – Rosabeth Moss Kanter
I want to have a cultural impact. I want to be an inspiration, to show people what can be done. – Sean Combs
I’ve done a few costume dramas, and people say, ‘What was it like wearing the costumes? Did they really help you with your character?,’ and most of the time it doesn’t make any difference. You’re wearing something a bit weird, and it’s sort of uncomfortable, but it doesn’t really have a huge impact on the part that you’re playing. – Romola Garai
When we were kids, I know when I saw ‘Pinocchio’ it had a huge impact. I was ten years old, and I went home, and I was drawing the characters. – Ron Clements
It’s really hard to imagine there ever being the kind of impact there was when punk rock happened in the late 70’s. I wish there would be one big change like that again, but I don’t know if that’ll ever happen. – Penelope Spheeris
As an entrepreneur, I have been known for taking risks throughout my career, but leaving the European Union is not one of the risks I would want the U.K. to take – not as an investor, not as a father, and not as a grandfather. I am deeply concerned about the impact of leaving. – Richard Branson
The great thing about fiscal policy is that it has a direct impact and doesn’t require you to bind the hands of future policymakers. – Paul Krugman
People talk about me in ‘Arcadia’ and I think I was okay in it but I’ve given better performances in other productions that didn’t have the same impact. But I knew ‘Arcadia’ was going to be an event and I wanted to be part of it. – Rufus Sewell
Personally, I am not so affected by my environment. What I build in the creative process is not necessarily connected to what I am physically in contact with. I am always observing everything, but it will not necessarily have a direct impact on what I do. – Olivier Theyskens