Andy Pettitte Quotes

Whenever someone has the ability to impact people's lives, I think that's one of the greatest things that God gives us as individuals.

Andy Pettitte

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• I believe that entrepreneurs play an unmatched role and the accelerating pace of innovation is transforming the face of global challenges. You must think about the solution differently when you're trying to impact 1 billion people rather than affecting 1 million people.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • People
  • Believe
  • Trying

• It is the ability to choose which makes us human.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Human
  • Ability
  • Choose

• Years ago, we all talked about recycling and not dumping things down your drain and all of that, but talking doesn't help much. Basically, it's going to have to be legislation because the impact is so huge and diversified.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Help
  • Down
  • Impact

• Voter ID laws have a disproportionate impact on groups that lean democratic - including blacks, hispanics and students.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Students
  • Laws
  • Impact

• Love is what we aspire to most in our lives.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Love
  • For Her
  • For Him

• You can express your generosity in ways that are virtually limitless. This was what I wanted to convey in 'Giving 2.0' - that whether you have $10 or $10 million to give, if you identify the right opportunities and make the most of your resources, your impact can be tremendous.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • Giving
  • Impact
  • Generosity

• I learned that fighting on the chess board could also have an impact on the political climate in the country.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Country
  • Political
  • Fighting

• I think that there's no doubt that as I see friends, families, children of gay couples who are thriving, you know, that has an impact on how I think about these issues.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Children
  • Friends
  • Doubt

• Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Work
  • Ability
  • Somebody

• MTV made a huge impact. Heavy rotation took you from selling 1m albums to 20m albums, and that meant a lot of dough.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • You
  • Impact
  • Selling

• If the gentleman has ability, he is magnanimous, generous, tolerant, and straightforward, through which he opens the way to instruct others.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Way
  • Ability
  • Gentleman

• I think the real problem is that nobody buys albums anymore, so you don't get the depth of the artists that are out today. What you get is whatever they felt is politically correct to get on there and actually make some impact. I think that's where you're losing your depth. You're only getting the very top of everything. It really bothers me.

  

  Gary Allan
  • Real
  • Today
  • Problem

• If you are a good writer - and I think I am - you are able to handle any kind of group and imagine their lives.

  

  Earl Hamner, Jr.
  • Kind
  • Writer
  • Lives

• No damn man kills me and lives.

  

  Nathan Bedford Forrest
  • Man
  • Lives
  • Damn

• The bowlers I respected or feared or rated were not the ones who gave me lip or stared at me or abused me. More the ones who, at any stage of the game, when had they had the ball in hand, they were going to be at me, and they were going to have the skill and the fitness and the ability to be aggressive.

  

  Rahul Dravid
  • Ability
  • Aggressive
  • Respected

• Fame is easy to acquire; impact is much more difficult.

  

  Hans Rosling
  • Easy
  • Fame
  • Impact

• Pluripotent cells have the ability to grow into any cell in the body.

  

  Nathan Deal
  • Body
  • Ability
  • Grow

• He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Age
  • Present
  • Knows

• One of the big myths about philanthropy is that it's all about donating funds for a cause. I like to look at it quite differently. Philanthropy is about 'giving' - not just in monetary terms but also in non-monetary aspects, like time, ideas, or being a volunteer. Donating money is just a small part of philanthropy.

  

  Pankaj Patel
  • Time
  • Money
  • Giving

• But the best problem I ever found, I found in my local public library.

  

  Andrew Wiles
  • Problem
  • Library
  • Found

• I must admit that we have yet to understand how [Donald Trump] will develop his idea, his pledge to make America great again, but I hope this will not hinder the development of our cooperation.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • America
  • Cooperation
  • Pledge

• The Princess Borghese, Bonaparte's sister, who was no saint, sat to Canova as a reclining Venus, and being asked if she did not feel a little uncomfortable, replied, "No. There was a fire in the room."

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Princess
  • Saint
  • Uncomfortable

• Most Korean parents saw themselves as coaches, while American parents tended to act more like cheerleaders.

  

  Amanda Ripley
  • Parents
  • Coaches
  • Cheerleaders

• Whenever someone has the ability to impact people's lives, I think that's one of the greatest things that God gives us as individuals.

  

  Andy Pettitte
  • Ability
  • Lives
  • Impact