Quotes About Impact

Imagine the tragedy; then try to imagine it another million times. That's a quarter of the number of children who did not die last year alone who would have died had they been born fifteen years earlier.

Anyone who is equipped to hunt, harvest crops, chop firewood, or prepare salad has the means to damage a lot of human flesh.

It makes little sense to make tens of millions of poor Americans pay more for clothing to save tens of thousands of jobs in the apparel industry.

when things change without a human agent directing the change, they are likely to change for the worse.

The pattern remains—globalization helped the lower and middle classes of poor countries, and the upper class of rich countries, much more than it helped the lower middle class of rich countries—but the differences are less extreme.

What's good for humanity is not always good for social science, and it may be impossible to unsnarl the bundle of correlations among all the ways that life has improved and trace the causal arrows with certainty.

The average would have been longer still were it not for the calamity of AIDS, which caused the terrible trough in the 1990s before antiretroviral drugs started to bring it under control.

aggregate statistics like GDP per capita and its derivatives such as factor productivity . . . were designed for a steel-and-wheat economy, not one in which information and data are the most dynamic sector. Many of the new goods and services are expensive to design, but once they work, they can be copied at very low or zero costs. That means they tend to contribute little to measured output even if their impact on consumer welfare is very large.

people esteem others according to how much time or money they forfeit in their altruistic acts rather than by how much good they accomplish.

In 1909 Carl Bosch perfected a process invented by Fritz Haber which used methane and steam to pull nitrogen out of the air and turn it into fertilizer on an industrial scale, replacing the massive quantities of bird poop that had previously been needed to return nitrogen to depleted soils. Those two chemists top the list of the 20th-century scientists who saved the greatest number of lives in history, with 2.7 billion.

Half of the world's homicides are committed in just twenty-three countries containing about a tenth of humanity, and

I would love for people to be able to think of me as a guy who stood up for what he believed in and helped make a difference for the vets.

Love without action is meaningless and action without love is irrelevant.

Build something 100 people love, not something 1 million people kind of like.

Making those we love happy sounds innocent as a dove, but it can be as destructive as a lion.

I think that with any emotion - fear, love, nervousness - if the actor's feeling it, then the audience feels it.

To live; to love; to learn; and to leave a legacy.

You know, I think everything I do cinematically for the rest of my life will probably have some direct route back to Jonathan. But I love him to death. He's like my best friend and my big brother.

I like to say there's certain things you can't take back: One of them is 'I love you,' and one of them is bullets.

Goodness in other people and what they contribute inspire me. I love it when someone is gifted and shares it in some way so that it has a trickle-down effect.

When you lose your hair, it has an impact on confidence and your overall self-esteem whether it affects your career or your love life.

By building respect and inspiring love business can move the world.

For me, places have a tremendous impact. I fall in love with places. All of life seems different in different places.

My songs will pass and be forgotten. What counts, however, is that I sang them.