Apart from values and ethics which I have tried to live by, the legacy I would like to leave behind is a very simple one - that I have always stood up for what I consider to be the right thing, and I have tried to be as fair and equitable as I could be.
I feel like there are messages. I feel like there are angels. I feel that there is a legacy and an energy. And I feel that it's possible to tap into that.
I don't want The Cure to fizzle out doing 45-minute shows of greatest hits. That would be awful for our legacy.
Our lives are shaped as much by those who leave us as they are by those who stay. Loss is our legacy. Insight is our gift. Memory is our guide
I can't go back and change the hands of time but what I can do is create a new legacy.
In my view the tablet and the PC are different. You can do things with the tablet if you are not encumbered by the legacy of the PC.
The endless legacy of the past to the present is the secret source of human genius.
Aristotelian logic is massive and marmoreal, but every monument accumulates graffiti.
I never think of the word legacy. It doesn't mean anything. You do the right thing, in my judgment, and things will work out. That's what drives me. I'm not looking for legacy or history books or whatever. I know what we've done here has saved a significant number of lives. The burden is not on me. It's on the politicians who made the decisions to limit what we're doing. They're the ones who are going to pay a price, in my judgment, if crime significantly increases.
I am not taking away the historical legacy, but it should not become a burden.
When I'm asked about legacy, I say it's too early to talk about legacy.
When I stepped into this world, I saw that we were all burdened by a certain kind of indifference to the plight of poor people. We were burdened by an insensitivity to a legacy of racial bias. We were tolerating unfairness and unreliability in a way that burdened me and provoked me.
The Muslims have got Islam as a legacy, hence they fail to recognize its value
The world today is a very different one. Social media, which I use as a way of connecting with people, is something that my father never got to use. I'm not worried about defending my father's legacy. I'm very much worried about what the future holds.
I think people in the future will come up to me and say, "Everything that you are and everything that you have is because of that butler [film]. " Of course, that's Oprah's line from the movie, but I think it will resonate with my legacy with the movie.
While I made my living as a coach, I have lived my life to be a mentor-and to be mentored!-constantly. Everything in the world has been passed down. Every piece of knowledge is something that has been shared by someone else. If you understand it as I do, mentoring becomes your true legacy. It is the greatest inheritance you can give to others. It is why you get up every day-to teach and be taught.
When I leave the NBA, I don't want my legacy to be, 'He won a championship ring. ' I want my legacy to say: 'He played for the people. He gave everybody in the world hope that they can be just like him. '
The good that men do lives after them.
I find that many people have a hard time, at first, in painting a compelling image of an achievable future; to envision their legacy, that is. Often this is because they're afraid to commit for fear of failure.
I think in this phase, after the Negro emerges in and from the desegregated society, then a great deal of time must be spent in improving standards which lag behind to a large extent because of segregation,discrimination, and the legacy of slavery.