Risa Lavizzo-Mourey Quotes

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

Hundreds and thousands of young people around the world can break through and can make this a better world for all living things. Once young people know the problems and are empowered to act, they have great power to impact the world.

Selfishly, working with kids gives me joy - it makes me feel like my life has a purpose. And I thought, Imagine what we can do in the White House, particularly with the kids in the D.C. area, many of whom have never set foot on the White House lawn.

The point of my work is to make it clear that all youth can make 'big miracles' happen.

When the youth of America gets together, amazing things happen.

I love children, and most of my involvement now has to do with children or youth programs.

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

How do you think we build a future? I think we build it by investing in our kids and investing in education.

I think young people can make such an extraordinarily important difference in making this world a better place.

Doing and making positive programming for young people is so important to me, and I will keep doing it.

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

I've been an activist since my late teens. I take this very seriously and try to use the gift that's been given to me - access to the media - as positively as I can.

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

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

I don't believe it's too far-fetched to think that we as college football players can make a significant, positive difference in the youth culture of America simply by embracing the responsibilities that accompany this place of privilege.

Most organizations see young people as problems to be solved. We see young people as problem-solvers.

By joining Common Goal, I hope I can encourage the younger generation of players to think about social responsibility in their lives.

Good on all the youths that are trying to do something different and do something positive.

I realized doing this work, identifying either issues or challenges or thinking about opportunities to actually impact people's lives, I could actually make things better, and bringing people around the table for solutions was something I liked doing and was actually something I was able to do fairly well.

I created a foundation for poor children called Sinfonia por el Peru, where they play in orchestras and choirs, learn values and get away from the bad life, become better citizens in every aspect.

I love anything to do with kids, anything to better our youth and put a smile on anybody's face is really what I do it for.

I want gaming to be something that everybody does, because they understand that games can be a real solution to problems and a real source of happiness. I want games to be something everybody learns how to design and develop, because they understand that games are a real platform for change and getting things done. And I want families, schools, companies, industries, cities, countries, and the whole world to come together to play them, because we’re finally making games that tackle real dilemmas and improve real lives.

If you can intervene early in the lives of girls here and in other parts of the world, you can begin to change the prospects for the future.

I'm always struck by how innately curious kids are about the world around us and how engaged and sensitive they are to what is happening .. and how many kids do want to be engaged and do what to make a difference.

What I can do is to go out and talk about the problems and solutions, make people aware of the scope of the problems, get them to become advocates for a turnaround, and convince them to develop an action plan, targeted to their community, to deal with young people. [They need to] find out what the kids want to do - dances, midnight-basketball leagues.