Lucy Walker Quotes

I don't like to think about being an influence. It's embarrassing.

I'm responsible for what I say, but I'm not responsible about how people interpret my situation.

I resent the idea that people would blame the messenger for the message, rather than looking at the content of the message itself.

I try to be real positive because I know I'm being listened to, and I have a responsibility.

A lot of people think that they are leaders just because they have been placed in charge of something - and you're not.

I believe one's responsibility as a role model begins and ends with their perception of what a good role model is.

I am aware of my own position and my responsibilities to youngsters watching us. You are a role model.

For too long, I equated leadership with a position. I thought leaders were presidents or politicians or celebrities or four-star generals with a horse and sword.

No man can see his own prejudices.

Yet the stupid believe they are awake, busily and brightly assuming they understand things, calling this man ruler, that one herdsman – how dense! Confucius and you are both dreaming! And when I say you are dreaming, I am dreaming, too. Words like these will be labeled the Supreme Swindle.

The word 'self' is as great a mystery as the word 'other'. It's just a polarity between two mysteries.

To achieve accurate knowledge of others, if such a thing were possible, we could only ever arrive at it through the slow and unsure recognition of our own initial optical inaccuracies. However, such knowledge is not possible: for, while our vision of others is being adjusted, they, who are not made of mere brute matter, are also changing; we think we have managed to see them more clearly, but they shift; and when we believe we have them fully in focus, it is merely our older images of them that we have clarified, but which are themselves already out of date.

It's overwhelming ... to know there are hundreds of kids out there that look up to me. I know that's a big responsibility. I am also very confident to say that it is wonderful and I'll do my best that I can do to be the best role model I can be.

The light was only just visible - except of course that there was no one to see, no witnesses, not this time, but it was nevertheless a light.

Influencing people is dangerous. Their acts and thoughts become your illegitimate children. You can't get away from them and Heaven knows what they mayn't grow up into.

If you've got the platform and the ability to make a difference, then this goes beyond 'should' and reaches the level of 'must.' You must make a difference or you squander the opportunity. Wasting the opportunity both degrades your own ability to contribute and, more urgently, takes something away from the rest of us.

We see only that which we are.

Ofttimes a very small man can cast a very large shadow.

In our own case we accept excuses too easily; in other people's, we do not accept them easily enough.

Facts are simple and facts are straight. Facts are lazy and facts are late. Facts all come with points of view. Facts don't do what I want them to. Facts just twist the truth around. Facts are living turned inside out.

You have to feel fortunate to be one of the people whom parents don't mind their children looking up to. The older I get, the more I think about the amount of influence I have on these young girls, and it's scary sometimes. But I also understand how lucky I am to have that.

The world you see is less of an indication about the world and more of an indication about your seeing.

Some people seek to understand, and some people seek to portray what they want to portray.

Accidents are just from where you're looking; to the ego, it looks like it's miracles and accidents.