Better Place Quotes - Page 15

• Do anything that might make the
  world a better place for someone

  Walter Payton

  World, Might

  Walter Payton (2001). “Never Die Easy: The Autobiography of Walter Payton”, Random House Incorporated

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• America has to make America become a better place for all Americans, and that`s all of us participating.

  Al Sharpton

  America, Participating

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Utilitarianism condones killing of innocent human beings, even murder, if it makes the world a better place.

  Torbjorn Tannsjo

  World, Murder, Killing

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I was supposed to be in the NBA. I was supposed to travel the world and make the world a better place.

  Dwight Howard

  Nba, World, Supposed To Be

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I think if we live with more compassion globally, I think we would be in a better place. We've had more then we have had as human beings technology wise.

  Frank Grillo

  Wise, Technology, Thinking

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• I like to hide behind my intellect. But the truth is, unless all of us start getting honest about what the reality is, things aren't going to change. If we all keep pretending that we know stuff and if everyone else would do what we knew and everything would be a better place, then nothing is going to change.

  Danny Boyle

  Reality, Stuff, Would Be

  Source: www.elle.com

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• At the end of my life, I want to say that I made the world a better place because I raised good children, loved my wife, and empowered entrepreneurs. If I do these things, then I can rest knowing that I made the world a better place.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Children, Knowing, Wife

  Source: www.sonshi.com

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• Quebec's distinct character makes Canada an even better country, and vice versa: being in Canada makes Quebec a better place too.

  Philippe Couillard

  Country, Character, Canada

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I've always believed the world would be a better place if more people everywhere have a chance to shape their own future and realize their full potential. I think that is what life is about.

  Thomas Friedman

  Thinking, People, Full Potential

  Source: theislamicmonthly.com

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• The people who are getting rich can't imagine that the world is not a better place.

  Arundhati Roy

  People, World, Imagine

  Source: progressive.org

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• America's security and prosperity didn't work unless other nations were also secure, and prosperous. There had to be something in it for them, so we weren't looking simply to grab territory, or widen our sphere of influence, or anything like that. We wanted to make the world a better place, and get very rich in the process.

  Daniel Fried

  America, World, Sphere Of Influence

  Source: www.politico.com

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• I'm not trying to make the world a better place.

  Mary Harron

  Trying, World

  Interview with Anisse Gross, believermag.com. March 2014.

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• I can't sit and compare my trouble to Brian Wilson but I came from a blue-collar family of fishermen. Music was an escape and a way for me to dream of better things and a better place to be. Let's just say I was an insecure, scared kid.

  Michael Buble

  Dream, Kids, Insecure

  "Michael Bublé leaves his comfort zone". Interview with Elio Iannacci, www.macleans.ca. October 6, 2016.

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• What a designer does is he makes things possible that you didn't imagine could exist before, and it makes the world a better place. You know, it's a great thing to be doing. A fine artist does that, too, but they make the expression for themselves, not for others' use.

  Paula Scher

  Artist, Expression, Doe

  Source: es.scribd.com

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• Surely the world will be a better place, at least marginally, if people have a better understanding of Kant and Hegel, if Marx's thought its studied and appreciated, if people gain a better understanding of Fichte, whose philosophy is far more important than people realize.

  Allen W. Wood

  Philosophy, People, Understanding

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• There are so many great moments in Yankee Stadium. There is nothing better or no better place better to compete when you are good and the Yankees are good and you are playing a big series in September in Yankee Stadium, four game series, there is no greater excitement anywhere than the Yankee Stadium.

  Cal Ripken, Jr.

  Yankees, Games, Yankee Stadium

  Interview with Chris Yandek, www.cyinterview.com. February 16, 2007.

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• I think what we need to do is we need to seek some other way in which to do what is potentially good work by Google. Google has made the world a better place in some ways.

  Jonathon Keats

  Thinking, Google, Way

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I would argue that search has made the world a better place. It has done so for reasons that arbitrarily could completely change that - not arbitrarily at all but to completely change how that plays out based upon the needs of profitability. So it's totally unreliable and it has many layers nested underneath that of many ulterior motives nested underneath it.

  Jonathon Keats

  Play, World, Layers

  Source: therumpus.net

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• What we need to do is we need to say, how can - how can we operate independently in terms of putting together these various technologies in order to be able to make the world a better place?

  Jonathon Keats

  Technology, Order, Together

  Source: therumpus.net

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• In documentary films, being able to be a storytelling and embrace film as an art form - while being very clearly connected in trying to help make the world a better place - is really important to me.

  James Redford

  Art, Important, Trying

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• I think everyone should have a personal mission to leave the Earth a better place for them having lived in it and let Earth then take it from there.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Thinking, Should Have, Earth

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Right now it is illegal for a service provider to censor or block a site because they don't like it or to privilege someone who pays them extra money. So it's basically a level playing field. I think it was a great victory. It doesn't solve all the problems of our time, but I think we've gotten a much better place.

  Tim Wu

  Block, Thinking, Victory

  Source: www.npr.org

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• This generation I'm a member of, we're sort of infected by this idea that you had to make the world a better place.

  Carol Ross Barney

  Ideas, This Generation, Generations

  "Riverwalk architect sees revival in city". Interview with Ally Marotti, digitaledition.chicagotribune.com.

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• It gives me such hope that each one of us can contribute to make this world a better place.

  Agapi Stassinopoulos

  Giving, World, Give Me

  Interview with Gina Murdock, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• You can't work on the biceps and ignore the rest of the body, and you can't just say one issue is important when you are looking at how to make the world a better place.

  Sophia Bush

  Issues, Important, Biceps

  "Sophia Bush of NBC’s Chicago PD: On Curiosity, Collaboration, and Clean Water". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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