David L. Wolper Quotes

Success is not about how much money we have in the bank, but it's about how many peoples' lives we have impacted through it. Success is experienced when we do things which are never done before.

For most of the millions of people who watch TED videos at the office, it's a middlebrow diversion and a source of factoids to use on your friends. Except TED thinks it's changing the world, like if 'This American Life' suddenly mistook itself for Doctors Without Borders.

What is important, I think, is to reach as many people as you can and do it as well as you can. Reach them and inspire them or amuse them, or maybe in some odd moments help them to discover something they hadn't thought of before.

Because of all the various people who've come in and out and brought along ideas, I've been on a learning curve throughout all these years. Of course, everyone that's been involved has influenced me as well. And I'm grateful for that.

I want to write books that can truly become a legacy and bring benefits to people.

History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people, because they created.

What have you given the world it never possessed before you came?

If we can teach a teacher we can reach more people.

My job is to teach someone something they never knew, but it should not be like you're in a prisoner-of-war camp. I'm supposed to be teaching you but also entertaining you. You're giving me an hour of your time. It should be lively. We're on a hunt, it's a mystery, and it's amazing.

It's not important to me to found a school; it's not important to me to have disciples.

Science and fun cannot be separated.

Entertainment that is fact-based is, I think, where people really learn the most, because they're leaning in, their curiosity is stimulated and they're being entertained.

I can possibly say I have entertained and educated more people than anyone else in the world.

If you call making people smile with 'The Pink Panther,' then I made a contribution.

I use humor to educate.

We couldn't be happier that the show has encouraged kids to have an interest in science and math, but we don't try to do that. We just have fun, which is its own bold statement.

Learning and entertaining can go hand-in-hand.

Share your knowledge and you become immortal.

If you just do something, then you're a five-year wonder and, goodbye, you're gone. But if people feel it's worthwhile, not only do they copy but they want to learn how to do it To me, that's what it's all about. If someone were to ask me, 'What's the number one thing, in essence, that you left behind?' It was the teaching of others so that they could take my work and take it further.

They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up learning a ton even when you don't know it

I'll leave it to other people to evaluate the legacy of my book, but I'm very moved when musicians tell me that they've been inspired by my book.

You don't know how many people come up to me and say, 'This child was conceived listening to you.'

It's going to be years and years before most people realize how greatly he contributed to American music.

My illusion is to have something to transmit. If I can't change the world, at least I want to change the way people look at it.

If somebody can act out one of the books as a play, if they can see a play, film, or television show that's related, that can be so stimulating for them. Anything that makes children engage and think - and love what the story is about - can only bring the most enormous rewards.