Quotes About Impact

The daily work—that goes on, it adds up. It goes into the ground, into crops, into children's bellies and their bright eyes. Good things don't get lost.

Alive, nobody matters much in the long run. But dead, some men matter more than others.

The ridiculously earnest are known to travel in groups. And they are known to change the world.

Here, if any terrorists came flying over, they'd look down on trashed-out mine craters and blown-up mountains and say, "Keep going. This place already got taken out." It was hard to see how September 11 was my fight. As far as doing good for my fellow man, my better option was football.

History is not good news or bad news, it's just one big story unreeling. There are no small parts, only small actors.

It's the radio, you see. The radio makes everyone feel the same thing at the same time. Instead of millions of various thoughts, one big psychological fixation. The radio commands our gut response.

Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot.

some of the best were people that taught school.

Love changes everything. I never suspected it would be so. Requited love, I should say ...

I read what Hallie said about not wanting to save the world, that you didn't choose your road for the reward at the end, but for the way it felt as you went along.

Her mark on history: the female acquaintance.

We can control so much in our own lives … except what other people say and do. And their actions and their words affect us tremendously.

I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing, therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to my fellow creature, let me do it now; let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again. —Proverbial saying

Urewera Rain, it doesn't fall in drops like ordinary rain; it starts like a bucketful of marbles being tipped out on the roof and then it's a continuous stream of white lines, hissing and splashing into the bush, beating everything flat and keeping it there, bouncing spray off every surface.

That was the dirty little secret of 9/11

In the scope of the universe, and the arc of justice, my life is of little consequence.

interesting how much insight you could have into your own pathologies, and how little impact the insight would have on your underlying needs. Or on your behavior.

the emotional health of a village depended upon having a man whom everyone hated.

Nothing on the face of this earth - and I do mean nothing - is half so dangerous as a children's story that happens to be real...

Is it any wonder that our greatest men have lurched rather than walked across the landscape as they hiccupped their way into history?" "Sir, that's the best autobiography I ever heard!" I said enthusiastically.

A clearcut is not the outward sign of a healthy economy but of an indifference to life.

meteoroid had hit with such force it melted the ground around it, making it look like foundry slag. The heat turned quartz intrusions in the bedrock into chunks of colored glass. The Dry Valleys We went on like this for hours, as though there was no being done with the astonishment landscapes might offer us, or to the potential for any seemingly inconsequential thing out there to startle and inform, or

A loud voice cannot compete with a clear voice, even if it's a whisper.

Some studies have estimated that losses have more than twice the psychological impact as equivalent gains. The fact is, we all hate to lose, which Kahneman and Tversky refer to as loss aversion.