Susan Collins Quotes

The need is great and so are the opportunities to make a difference.

What I love to do is take on business challenges in a way that really can have an impact on peoples' lives.

I really do believe that mayors have the political position to really change people's lives.

I want to spark ideas and conversations and inspire people to take active roles in their communities, relationships and their well-being.

Our intention is that people use MakerBots to have a positive impact on the world.

Michael Jordan changed so much in basketball, he took his power to make a difference. It's so much going on in music right now and somebody has to make a difference.

I've always enjoyed doing work that intrudes, or helps people.

Make the world better

But for those who really want to make the world a better place, can we start looking at Bill Gates's path instead of Steve Jobs? I like my iPad, but Gates is one of the greatest heroes of our time. For me, that has nothing to do with Microsoft and everything to do with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

When you're someone who cares about making a difference in the world, and you have resources to do that, you have literally hundreds of choices you could make about how to do that.

I want to inflict some change on people.

We're often accused of trying to manipulate opinion or that we're trying to elevate society. I think that the greatest thing we can do is to give you a vacation.

We've built six schools in Colombia and do work in South Africa and Haiti. We teach 5,000 students.

Over the years, we have gone beyond our businesses to take up philanthropic projects in diverse areas - from education to health care to skilling.

I've been given an opportunity to make a difference.

I plan with the BBC African Player of the Year award to become an agent of hope and positive change in the lives of the millions of African youths who have lost hope and are deprived.

I just want to do roles that are going to change one person's life.

Midwives not only save lives. They are also actors of social change.

Teaching is a respectful job. Teachers lay the foundation for society.

I care about how many people's lives I've positively impacted. That's the unit of measurement I measure myself by.

You see how powerful some of the things you say and you do can be on people, especially young people.

I wanted to develop a career where I could use my engineering background to have a positive effect on society.

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 wasn't sure how it would unfold once I got to the NBA, but I knew if I got to the NBA, I could then have the platform and have the resources and the connections and the people around me that had more connections and more resources to help me really impact a lot of people's lives.

I want to help make the world a better place.