Clay Shirky Quotes

You can have an impact anywhere you are.

There are so many causes that you care about, but one can't change or take on the world, so one has to really focus on where you feel you can - to use a very overworked phrase - truly try to do something to make a difference.

I like my social media space to be somewhere very positive... I like to just be able to just share any images they see, or a piece of art or an item of clothing, and get to share that with the world.

I started using YouTube when I really wanted to reach out to the world, and I found a group of people who had the same interests as me.

There're been sort of a sea change in my work in general, in that the more personal, the universal it's become.

Your art is the act of taking personal responsibility, challenging the status quo, and changing people.

If I'm not doing anything to make a change, then I'm responsible.

I am human. I am messy. I'm not trying to be an example. I am not trying to be perfect. I am not trying to say I have all the answers. I am not trying to say I'm right. I am just trying - trying to support what I believe in, trying to do some good in this world, trying to make some noise with my writing while also being myself.

Genius is in the idea. Impact, however, comes from action!

Somehow don't be bored, but if you must, use it in action. Use its destructive potential.

We are not powerless. We have tremendous potential for good or ill. How we choose to use that power is up to us; but first we must choose to use it. We're told every day, You can't change the world. But the world is changing every day. Only question is who's doing it? You or somebody else?

I finally reached the point where I knew I had to become involved or shut up.

To know is to care, to care is to act, to act is to make a difference.

It's better to create something that others criticise than to create nothing and criticise others. Go create, have fun!!

Writing is one of the ways I participate in transformation.

You don't need to go to a therapist, you don't need to do all kinds of things. If you want to write, you physically have to do it.

I like how blogging emulates fandom because it's so completist and spontaneous. It really mirrors the way people listen to music, and I like that fluidity with online content.

To wish for change will change nothing; To make the decision to take action right now will change everything.

You can't sit around and wait for somebody to say who you are. You need to write it and paint it and do it

Either you vegetate and look out a window, or activate and try to effect change.

Fashion has a right to exist, because it permits the people to define themselves over and over again.

Hope rarely enters into it. 'Tis action moves the world.

It doesn't matter how strong your opinions are. If you don't use your power for positive change, you are, indeed, part of the problem.

God didnt put you on earth just to read about what others do. He made you TO DO some things others will want to read about!