Quotes About Impact

Still, for both policy and political reasons, I felt that progressives couldn't afford to ignore economics. Those of us who believed in the government's ability to solve big problems had an obligation to pay attention to the real-world impact of our decisions and not just trust in the goodness of our intentions.

It was as if my very presence in the White House had triggered a deep-seated panic, a sense that the natural order had been disrupted.

And although it was hard to match his excitement over washers and dryers, the results really were pretty amazing: By the time I left office, those new appliance standards were on track to remove another 210 million metric tons of greenhouse gases from the atmosphere annually.

Bobby Kennedy: no era tanto lo que hacía sino lo que te hacía sentir. Que todo era posible.

think people whose fathers aren't there—and whose mothers are feeling really bitter about their fathers' not being there—what they absorb is how terrible that guy was and you don't want to be like that guy. In

Rarely do your efforts bear fruit right away; the scale of most problems coming across your desk is too big for that, the factors at play too varied.

How'd it go?" he asked. I thought for a moment. "It went fine for us," I said. "But based on what I just saw, we better win this thing or the country is screwed.

That's why people become involved in organizing—because they think they'll get something out of it.

Every human interaction offers you the chance to make things better or to make things worse.

Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.

Your own Self-realization is the greatest service you can render the world.

Somehow human authority is never enough; we must have special effects.

En 2004, un estudio puso de manifiesto que el optimismo no aportaba beneficio alguno, en términos de supervivencia, a los que sufrían cáncer de pulmón

Memories do not always soften with time; some grow edges like knives.

I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved.

Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history. Even the child Ruth May touched history. Everyone is complicit. The okapi complied by living, and the spider by dying. It would have lived if it could. Listen: being dead is not worse than being alive. It is different, though. You could say the view is larger.

Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.

He was getting that look he gets, oh boy, like Here comes Moses tromping down off of Mount Syanide with ten fresh ways to wreck your life.

Be careful what you give children, for sooner or later you are sure to get it back.

The average food item on a U.S. grocery shelf has traveled farther than most families go on their annual vacations.

Culture is a slingshot moved by the force of its past

If you can't dress expensive, dress memorable.

Because nothing wondrous can come in this world unless it rests on the shoulders of kindness.

Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work--that goes on, and it adds up. It goes into the ground, into crops, into children's bellies and their bright eyes. Good things don't get lost.