Influencing Change Quotes

I view having celebrity as having capital, and I don't know a better way to spend that capital other then helping people.

The future's so random, and so mobile, there's no way you're going to get to your vision of what you want your community to be just by chance alone. I really believe you have to let people know, to use your voice, to say, 'this is what I like about my place, I want to keep it this way, this is what I think can be improved, this is what I disapprove of.' That's the only way you can have a part in shaping the future.

You don't have to make the headlines to make a difference.

Use your voice on the local level where it has the potential to be more widely heard.

Britain has always been a nation with a strong global focus. We have influenced change and built strong ties all round the world.

The only people in the world who can change things are those who can sell ideas.

To lead others is to help them change their thoughts, beliefs and actions for the better.

I think that the drama of people rising up demanding their own freedom is one that resonates very deeply with America. I think that President Barack Obama has tried and would like to find a way to relate to the Arab Spring, but I think he also wants to be, rightly, very careful that we don't take it over. It is very important that they own this. He is trying to influence it this way but without, "We're so never going to go to the extreme of Iraq and putting boots on the ground again."

It's important to think about the bigger picture, especially if we are given these platforms. We can make a difference.

A leader can't move a country that's not ready. You can't make the waves, but when you see them coming, you can help direct them.

The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.

The responsibility of the writer as a moral agent is to try to bring the truth about matters of human significance to an audience that can do something about them.

Though leadership may be hard to define, the one characteristic common to all leaders is the ability to make things happen.

I don't enjoy doing the daily stuff... but I would love to do something like the series that I did on 'Change India.' That was not just news. The programme was based in public policy, so that kind of influences change.

I want my work to influence public conversation, to turn heads, and to bear witness to this problem that's raging in our cities. If journalism helps me with that, I'll draw on journalism... and I'm not going to worry too much if academics get troubled over that distinction.

I hope I'm better looking than Yoda, but - I'm really interested in people who have something to say, a change they want to make and can't figure out why they can't make it spread.