Quotes About Impact

Trauma is any stressor that occurs in a sudden and forceful way and is experienced as overwhelming.

The short story can be hot and sweet or hot and fierce. You get it in one sitting or you don't get it. It's like a shore break. It happens quickly, and is right there in front of you, menacing you. First you're looking at the shore break, and then if you don't back up, it's on you. The novel is the long, low wave that you ride south from the Arctic Circle. It's powerful, but its power accumulates over a very long time as it rolls towards the reef.

There is little more powerful than when truth joins action.

A legacy is not about what you did while you were there it is what happens when you are gone

The fear of making a decision is the result of fearing to make a mistake - the truth is, the fear of mistakes has a greater impact on you than making the mistakes.

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

One handles truths like dynamite.

There is at least one thing more brutal than the truth, and that is the consequence of saying less than the truth.

The best ideas are the honest ones. Ones born out of personal experience. Ones that originated to help a few but ended up helping many.

Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.

Preaching is truth set on fire.

I make no manner of doubt that you threw a very diamond of truth at me, though you see it hit me so directly in the face that it wasn't exactly appreciated, at first.

A compelling story, even if factually inaccurate, can be more emotionally compelling than a dry recitation of the truth.

Screw the truth into men's minds.

that as long as we are being remembered, we remain alive.

One voice speaking truth is a greater force than fleets and armies.

... the constructive power of an image is not measured in terms of its truth, but of the love it inspires.

It matters enormously if I alienate anyone from the truth.

One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history.

The truth of the matter is: you can create a great legacy, and inspire others, by giving it to philanthropic organizations.

It's amazing how much distance one truth can create between two people.

Once exposed, a secret loses all its power.

the mode of delivering a truth makes, for the most part, as much impression on the mind of the listener as the truth itself.

The truth is, if what we choose to do with our lives won't make a story meaningful, it won't make a life meaningful either.