Daveigh Chase Quotes

Get around people who have something of value to share with you. Their impact will continue to have a significant effect on your life long after they have departed.

I'm trying to have everything that I put into the world be something that makes a difference in the way I want to make a difference.

How did the Oscar change my life? What it did was that it gave me a new reality. And it let me know that an award wasn't going to change my life - that I had to be in control of changing my life.

My wife is wonderful. She's one of the people who has changed my life around... or has allowed ME to change my life around.

When, who, and what things happen to becomes meaningful, then what happens starts to matter, and play can evoke strong emotions, fierce and ongoing urges to succeed, and a desire to leave a mark, drive meaningful change, or build lasting institutions.

We only have two hours to change people's lives.

If I look what sport has done in my life, I don't think there's any doubt that sport can change lives.

You know what Oprah taught me? Unless you count as changing your life having a neighborhood dad say to you every morning at the school bus stop, 'You sure don't look as good as you did on 'Oprah!', being on 'Oprah' doesn't change your life.

I haven't done the profoundly impactful work many TED speakers have.

I don't think anything changes after marriage. Things change in a big way after becoming a mother.

My long-term ambition is to be an agent of change.

If you ask me, everything... every event that takes place changes your life.

It's pretty well documented that Coach Nelson has had a big impact on my life.

You and I aren't remembered for what we acquire but for what we contribute.

Perfection is not necessary to make a real and lasting difference to other people's lives.

I know that it is not enough to be remembered for books and theories. One does not make a difference unless it is a difference in people's lives.

Focus attention and energy on making a difference in the lives of others, and success might follow as a by-product.

It's about the journey--mine and yours--and the lives we can touch, the legacy we can leave, and the world we can change for the better.

I realize it's possible in ways both large or small to make a difference in someone's life.

You can change. And you can be an agent of change.

There are things that happen that change the course of people's lives, but it's a function of everybody's lives.

You must constantly ask yourself these questions: Who am I around? What are they doing to me? What have they got me reading? What have they got me saying? Where do they have me going? What do they have me thinking? And most important, what do they have me becoming? Then ask yourself the big question: Is that okay? Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.

You don't have to run away from life your whole life. You can really live. You can change. And you can be an agent of change.

Unless you change how you are, you will always have what you've got.