I grew up believing that my parents helped change the world. I was so in awe of them, and I wondered how I could measure up. I mean, how do you change the world - again?
Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
There is nothing quixotic or romantic in wanting to change the world. It is possible. It is the age-old vocation of all humanity.
No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.
If your life changes, we can change the world, too.
I'm not going to change the world overnight. It's one person at a time, and hopefully they're people in positions of power who can help people get in those roles and really, truly embrace colorblind casting.
I still feel that a movie has to attempt to say something - even if it fails miserably. But I've sort of given up on believing that I'm going to change the world with every film I choose to act in.
After Watergate, which happened when I was in college, I became increasingly inspired by journalism as a way to change the world. It sounds corny, but to wake the public up, to serve a higher cause.
Can art change the world? Maybe... we should change the question: Can art change people's lives?
Music can change the world because it can change people.
News reports don't change the world. Only facts change it, and those have already happened when we get the news.
I view music as entertainment. When I'm on stage, I don't look at that as a platform for sharing ideology. Otherwise I'd be a zealot myself. That's why, when people ask me, 'Do you think you can change the world through your music?' I say, 'I doubt it.'
In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first.
As China is about adaptation, not transformation, it is unlikely to change the world dramatically should it ever assume the global driver's seat. But this does not mean that China won't exploit that world for its own purposes.
Our people, our shareholders, me, Bill Gates, we expect to change the world in every way, to succeed wildly at everything we touch, to have the broadest impact of any company in the world.
The main objective - our soul is our people. And our job is to enrich their lives, change the world. And so I think that's the bigger pressure you put on yourself.
I do not believe you have to be an elected official to help 'change the world.' In fact, maybe it is easier from the outside.
Things don't have to change the world to be important.
My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world.
You're going to change the world? Well, go ahead and try. You'll give it up at a certain point and change yourself instead.
The historian of science may be tempted to exclaim that when paradigms change, the world itself changes with them.
I wanted to create a multibillion dollar company that lets me go out and let us go out and change the world and create a Skin Cancer Awareness Center that costs a quarter a billion dollars.
I didn't change the world.
I'm not going to change the world. You're not going to change the world. But we can help - we can all help.
I'm from the '60s, but no one has ever accused me of being a hippie. I never had much interest in the Woodstock crowd, which partied to change the world, while real people were starving to death in Africa.
Choose your corner, pick away at it carefully, intensely and to the best of your ability and that way you might change the world.
Music can't change the world.
You weren't going to the theater to change the world, but you had a chance to affect the world, the thinking and the feelings of the world.
I laugh at stuff like Snapchat thinking it can change the world.
Many new technologies come with a promise to change the world, but the world refuses to cooperate.
I think we can be the very best place to start a business, to grow a business, to invent a new technology, to change the world, to change the country. But we've got a lot of work to deliver a new California to the people of California.
Politics, in general, when you're trying to change the world for the better in any kind of way, no matter how small or how big, it's inches.
You can't change the world without a certain amount of healthy willingness to break the rules.
I know sport can change the world, and that matters to me.
When I was 18, I lived in Greenwich Village, New York, for nine months. At that time, I wanted to change the world, not through architecture, but through painting. I lived the artist's life, mingling with poets and writers, and working as a waiter. I was intrigued by the aliveness of the city.
Art is not meant to change the world, but when you see people interacting, when you see an impact on their lives, then I guess in a smaller way, this is changing the world. So, that's what I believe in. That's why I'm into creating more and more interactions.