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"I'm incredibly impressed by people who organize to achieve a goal, and believe that they can make a difference and then go ahead and do just that. I think it's incredible"

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Apple’s admiration lands on the least glamorous part of change: the paperwork, the meetings, the slow grind of people deciding to be effective together. Coming from a musician long associated with solitary intensity and personal truth-telling, the line reads like a small but meaningful pivot away from the myth that impact is mainly about having the “right” feelings. She’s not praising charisma or genius; she’s praising logistics. That’s a cultural tell.

The phrasing does a lot of work. “Organize to achieve a goal” is almost aggressively plain, a kind of anti-slogan that resists the aestheticized version of activism we’re fed online. The middle clause - “believe that they can make a difference” - acknowledges the psychological hurdle: collective action starts as an act of imagination, a refusal to accept that the system is too big or you are too small. Then Apple’s favorite move: a hard cut to the verb. “And then go ahead and do just that.” No romance, no martyrdom, just follow-through.

The repetition of “incredible” is telling, too. It’s not rhetorical polish; it’s genuine astonishment, like she’s describing a superpower she both envies and reveres. In a culture that rewards hot takes and personal branding, Apple is pointing at something quietly radical: coordinated effort that doesn’t need to be performed as identity. The subtext is respect for discipline, for community, for impact measured not in vibes but in outcomes - the kind of praise that feels almost countercultural coming from pop.

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Apple, Fiona. (2026, January 15). I'm incredibly impressed by people who organize to achieve a goal, and believe that they can make a difference and then go ahead and do just that. I think it's incredible. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/im-incredibly-impressed-by-people-who-organize-to-154304/

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Apple, Fiona. "I'm incredibly impressed by people who organize to achieve a goal, and believe that they can make a difference and then go ahead and do just that. I think it's incredible." FixQuotes. January 15, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/im-incredibly-impressed-by-people-who-organize-to-154304/.

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"I'm incredibly impressed by people who organize to achieve a goal, and believe that they can make a difference and then go ahead and do just that. I think it's incredible." FixQuotes, 15 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/im-incredibly-impressed-by-people-who-organize-to-154304/. Accessed 18 Feb. 2026.

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Fiona Apple (born September 13, 1977) is a Musician from USA.

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