Meaningful Impact Quotes

People who add value to others do so intentionally. I say that because to add value, leaders must give of themselves, and that rarely occurs by accident.

People will come up to me at shows and tell me that a song touched them in a completely different way than I wrote it. That's fun. Fans translating it in their own way.

Little changes can start to make a difference in the world.

If we are going to make a mark (key 21), it might as well be a meaningful one.

If the work of art is to continue pursuing the vision of both being in and of the world but nevertheless in some fashion being more than just one more object to the mounting clutter, this is the specific point, I think, where this must be assured.

I've always wondered, what am I going to do that's important with these stupid jokes that I tell.

Doing something unimportant well does not make it important.

My mission is not to give an apologetic for why I'm trying to impact people's lives and use the Gospel to transform. My mission is to impact people's lives and use the Gospel to transform. I want to be on that mission and not explaining it all the time.

It's amazing how powerful a piece of work can be and how it can influence people and change. It's pretty interesting.

I've had a lot of people come up to me after shows and tell me that "Dollhouse" really helped them with whatever they were going through with their families. I thought that was really amazing, that it could mean one thing for me but another thing for someone else.

I have learned that you're only relevant to someone if you're beneficial to them somehow/some way

The first thing, when I read the script, is that I need to care about what happens and feel compelled by the story and engaged by the characters. It needs to resonate with me, even if what the characters are going through is not something that I have experienced in my life. I have to feel like it has some sort of meaning to me.

To be in any way a positive contribution, that's all anybody wants to be. It's all I've ever wanted to be. I wanted to be an artist, be a mother. You want to feel that in your life you've been of use, in whatever way that comes out.

No individual has any right to come into the world and go out of it without leaving behind him distinct and legitimate reasons for having passed through it.

Popularity isn't my compass. Unless it can help one to act, to be understood... that's what counts.

There’s no point to living life unless you make history and the best way to make history is to help others.

You don't have to make the headlines to make a difference.

I want to work on cases that I feel the most passionate about.

I want to make words out of life. That's bigger than me. That's as big a creative force as - bigger than, for me, even having children. That felt more accidental - wonderful, but accidental.

I'd like to think that what I've written over the years and what I'm doing now means something to people. People in the street all the time are saying "love the new record" or "I love that record," this tune or that tune. It means an awful lot, or it's been a big part of their lives. As a songwriter, what else would you really want? You're trying to connect with people, people's emotions, and maybe say something about their lives or feelings. That's probably a good enough compliment to receive, really.

End of Days is a lot of impact; it makes people open their eyes. It makes a statement.

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.

Change the world. Build a business. Have fun.

The only power that has any real meaning is the power to better the world.