Quotes About Impact

Albert King calculated that vehicle safety improvements that have come about as a result of cadaver research have saved an estimated 8,500 lives each year since 1987. For every cadaver that rode the crash sleds to test three-point seat belts, 61 lives per year have been saved. For every cadaver that took an air bag in the face, 147 people per year survive otherwise fatal head-ons. For every corpse whose head has hammered a windshield, 68 lives per year are saved.

Heroism doesn't always happen in a burst of glory. Sometimes small triumphs and large hearts change the course of history. Sometimes a chicken can save a man's life. ___________

Because people like me want to have their hamburgers. Only once or twice a year, I want to say. But I know that's a lame defense. It's not the quantity that matters, it's the statement you make or don't make. When you tell people you don't eat beef — or would never use a glue trap — you make the alternative a little less comfortable for them. You keep it from being a thing they give no thought to.

Heroism doesn't always happen in a burst of glory. Sometimes small triumphs and large hearts change the course of history.

a man may shout the eternal virtues and be unheard forever, but if he babble nonsense in a wilderness it will travel around the world.

The labours of men of genius, however erroneously directed, scarcely ever fail in ultimately turning to the solid advantage of mankind.

I can hardly describe to you the effect of these books. They produced in me an infinity of new images and feelings that sometimes raised me to ecstasy, but more frequently sunk me into the lowest dejection.

No puedo dejar de señalar aquí cuántas veces los maestros tienen la ocasión de dirigir los gustos de sus alumnos hacia conocimientos útiles y cuántas veces lo desaprovechan inconscientemente.

vous ne pouvez contester l'inestimable bénéfice que j'apporterai à l'humanité jusqu'à la dernière génération

If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear

Still, it haunted me.

intended to reason. This passion is detrimental to me; for you do not reflect that you are the cause of its excess.

new species would bless me as its creator and source, many happy and excellent natures would owe their being to me.

Los acontecimientos que influyen decisivamente en nuestros destinos a menudo tienen su origen en sucesos triviales

and once his words had even power over my heart;

Un solo acontecimiento puede alterar bruscamente el aspecto de un lugar, pero también un cúmulo de pequeñas circunstancias puede variarlo gradualmente y sin que sea posible apercibirse de ello a simple vista.

This passion is detrimental to me; for you do not reflect that you are the cause of its excess.

There was no denying the fact that the death of sugarcane was sounding the knell for something else in the country. What can we call it?

Art is an explosion.

Never underestimate the big importance of small things

The stories can push people to want to go see Africa, for example, or can totally scare them and steer them away from getting anywhere near Africa. It depends on what kind of an impact you want your stories to have on the listener.

NOT to compliment people on their physical features (unless you are completely genuine) because people will often see it as though you just want something from them–and it is often interpreted as you either want to sell them something or have sex with them.

When Jesus was roaming the earth, he used powerful stories to inspire disciples to follow him and, in turn, impacted millions of lives for centuries. How

events are shaped by history rather than vice versa.