Juan Diego Florez Quotes

You've got a bunch of kids out here that might not want to be athletes, but they want to learn how to make a difference in their community, and I'm trying to as best I can show an example of that.

One of the pre - requisites for children becoming proactive and responsible citizens is the availability of enough role models inside and outside the school.

In fact, I have the privilege of traveling around our country and meeting people all over the country who are making a huge difference in the lives of their neighbors and themselves. That's what I'm really fortunate to be able to do.

I don't want young people to think they can't make a difference because they don't have money.

I think there are a lot of things that soccer does in the communities that transcend the soccer field.

I think that my peers deserve more than products to buy wrapped up in advertising. We need ideas to share and causes to believe in - opportunities to lead and teach.

Giving teenagers some inspiration, a single role model and an opportunity to be part of something bigger at a critical point in their lives can be the difference between being a productive or being a destructive member of society.

Empowerment is not about doing the same thing the same way in the same environment. It's about building the man and the woman and doing so with a view to creating better citizens and, by extension, better patriots in this society of ours.

The kind of national goal we ought to be thinking about is way beyond national product - it is how do we as a nation help our children be the best kinds of people they could possibly be?

Trying to learn from communities and engage with policy makers and community organizers all across the country is really important to me.

Getting in the community, working with the kids, was a way that I felt like I could get out and make a change.

My theory is this: Rather than having commentaries from the cheap seats, get involved and see what you can do. What can you do around your own community, within your own family, to try to improve race relations in our country? I think this is a responsibility that we all have as citizens.

I really believe in sharing my story to improve social behaviors in the nation.

As Culture Secretary, I realised how you can use sport to do so many other good things for society.

I wanted to show the community you can build something here without having to raid taxpayers' dollars. What better way to show the community what we're all about, as a welcome to come to the Institute of Contemporary Art and be a part of what we're doing here?

If we all act together - business, governments, NGOs and citizens and, especially, the young - just imagine the good we could create.

The Kind Foundation was created to scale our social impact and be able to deepen our focus on fostering empathy and developing kinder communities.

I'm on a mission partly to make a difference in the world for the better, starting with the kids. They are the future.

The vision that Islamabad United have for social issues, particularly with their Empowerment Programs is something that I feel strongly about, and look forward to contributing to.

I think we're always doing something for teenagers and youngsters because BTS originally performed itself as a socially conscious band. We always wanted to sell our performances like we did with our debut.

In the past, young, talented architects worked together to form a strong social agenda and communicate with a larger audience. That's what today's architecture community should be.

It's amazing what the power of sport does for children and communities.

Music changes kids, and kids change the world.

I'm about creating positive change in the communities that I come from.

I decided to use my social media to inspire changes in the younger population.