Quotes About Impact

Actors are agents of change. A film, a piece of theater, a piece of music, or a book can make a difference. It can change the world.

Just before the tunnel's entrance, the Peugeot smashed the Citroën's left taillight, shattering glass.

smashing into the wreck, mere inches separating him from the accident.

I must admit, maybe I am a piece of history after all.

I was neither glad nor unhappy to see her, but maybe that's what shock does, because I was surprised, that I will say.

Infine vorrei avanzare qualche congettura sulle ripercussioni che le macchine calcolatrici elettroniche digitali avranno sulla matematica. Ho già accennato al fatto che l'ACE svolgerà il lavoro di circa diecimila calcolatori umani; c'è da aspettarsi dunque che il calcolo manuale su larga scala scomparirà.

In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way.

With our passing, might some lost contribution of ours leave the planet a bit more impoverished? It is possible that, instead of heaving a huge biological sigh of relief, the world without us would miss us?

He knew the terrible tales of sea otters choking on polyethylene rings from beer six-packs; of swans and gulls strangled by nylon nets and fishing lines; of a green sea turtle in Hawaii dead with a pocket comb, a foot of nylon rope, and a toy truck wheel lodged in its gut. His personal worst

None of us—not you, not me—is here to stick a toe in the water. We're here to make waves.

only measure that matters is

Objectives are business outcomes and results that have substantial impact on the products, services, and relationships of the enterprise, and which can be measured. They may be new opportunities reached or problems solved.

I've decided that I can also touch the hearts of many - dead people, but the living, too. (Cameryn Mahoney)

it's a sad world we live in when a human being leaves so little of a mark that no one even realizes it when he's gone.

Let's be outspoken, let's be ridiculous, let's solve the world's problems.

Half of all the great art and literature in existence went unrecognised during the lifetimes of its creators.

our deeds have no higher meaning than the context of the moment in which they occur.

Diamond Dallas Page didn't have that larger-than-life persona, but he had a different connection with the audience.

The persona of 'The Wonder Years' is something that's going to be with me forever. And I'm happy for that. It's nothing that I'd ever shy away from, and it makes me feel so good that it's something people still remember and talk about it and think of it so fondly.

I started off with making personal donations and eventually set up my own foundation, VTCY Foundation, now known as Better Malaysia Foundation. My contributions are also made through companies that I own.

As CEO of Unilever, my personal mission is to galvanize our company to be an effective force for good.

Racial bias does exist, and until we can all admit its existence and become introspective as to whether our own personal biases are impacting how we deal with others, there will be no change.

In many ways, my decision to come out changed the course not only of my personal life but of my professional one as well.

I want my work to make news and not my personal life.