Quotes About Impact

If you really want to communicate something, even if it's just an emotion or an attitude, let alone an idea, the least effective and least enjoyable way is directly. It only goes in about an inch. But if you can get people to the point where they have to think a moment what it is you're getting at, and then discover it, the thrill of discovery goes right through the heart.

The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale.

Psycho did fix my image, for better or worse. For years afterward, many young ladies refused to take showers with me.

Few individuals significantly alter the course of history. Fewer still modify the map of the world. Hardly anyone can be credited with creating a nation-state. Mohammad Ali Jinnah did all three.

There were two books that really had a significant impact on me on the issue of drugs: One was Andrew Weil's book, The Natural Mind. The

How you coach them is how they're going to play.

Psychology of small things rules.

We behave morally when we improve the lives of all we can affect.

It is never until one realizes that one means something to others that one feels there is any point or purpose in one's own existence.

But you wouldn't believe what a dead finger does to a living hand.

NI PARÍS, NI NUEVA YORK, sino Viena era el centro del mundo en los dos primeros decenios del siglo XX. Fue en la ciudad del Danubio donde se fraguaron, más que en ningún otro lugar, muchos de los esplendores y los horrores que estaban aún por llegar y que, a la postre, acabarían rotulando nuestro mundo actual y nuestras propias vidas.

He was sure of one thing only, and on this single security he built up the whole of his teaching: a living man, through his mere presence and through his personal influence, may do more to cure the sick than can any other remedy in the world. "Of all bodies in nature, none is so potent in its influence upon man as is the body of man himself.

What a man has taken into his bloodstream in childhood from the air of that time stays with him.

it's always good to know that one has saved at least one person, kept faith with one person, made a good job of one thing.

Obedeciendo a una ley irrevocable, la historia niega a los contemporáneos la posibilidad de conocer en sus inicios los grandes movimientos que determinan su época

Çocuklar?nki gibi duyarl? bünyelerde her tutku balmumuna bas?lm?? gibi iz b?rak?r.

There was a magic in the words. I suppose their power lay in their utter futility.

The beliefs I was raised with - to respect animals and to be aware of nature, to understand that we share this planet with other creatures - have had a huge impact on me.

A good book is an event in my life.

Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.

The intensity of it simply enters your heart and brain and tears every nerve to pieces.

In the U.S. there are 45,000 shopping malls employing 10.7 million people. The average American family of four metabolizes four million pounds of material every year to support their lifestyle. That's 11,000 lbs. a day, 7.5 lbs. a minute.

My brand of persuasion doesn't work well at a distance.

I feel guilty about most things, though it's usually to do with actions that would impact on other people.