Quotes About Impact

most of all, we wish that everyone we knew could be brightened simply by our looking at them...

Od vseh navad, ki jih ima sodobni ?lovek, je prebiranje dnevnega ?asopisa gotovo ena najslabših. Zjutraj, ko je glava najbolj odprta, se vanjo vsuje zlo, kar ga je prejšnji dan pridelal svet. V preteklosti je zadostovalo, da nisi bral ?asnikov, pa si bil rešen. Danes to ni ve? mogo?e; obstajajo mediji in dovolj je, da jih vklopiš za sekundo, pa te zlo že nasko?i in prodre vate.

The plays should have the half-life of plutonium.

Lo que dices importa, y la manera en que lo dices también.

This is the beginning of a new day. You have been given this day to use as you will. You can waste it or use it for good. What you do today is important because you are exchanging a day of your life for it. When tomorrow comes, this day will be gone forever. In its place is something you have left behind … let it be something good.

Surprises, I feel now, are primarily a form of violence.

Ironically, their shocking success also awakened the very forces that eventually would marginalize them within the empire they had created.

With each generation, the amount of environmental degradation increases, but each generation takes that amount as the norm.

You are 50 percent less likely to see a bumblebee than you were in 1974. Butterfly populations have decreased, according to one estimate, by 33 percent in the last twenty years. Three billion birds have disappeared from North American skies in the past five decades. Audubon's Birds and Climate Change Report warns that half of all birds on our continent are at risk

Sometimes incidents and events in our lives bring out the best in us, or the worst. Sometimes we recover from these events and sometimes we don't - but they always impact us. At other times how we act and react, or deal with a particular situation, reveals our true nature and tells us who we really are.

every single act we do has the potential of causing pain, and every single thing we do has consequences that echo way beyond what we can imagine. It doesn't mean we shouldn't act. It means we should act carefully. Everything matters [p. 41].

Reminds me of the red dress you wore the first time I had you. That was it for me, you know. You devastated me. There was no coming back from that.

heat hit me like a physical barrier.

The simple fact was, Gideon and I were the best and worst things that had ever happened to each other

Then I decided I would spend the summer writing a novel. That would fix a lot of people.

It was like the first time i saw a cadaver. For weeks afterward the cadavers head, or what was left of it - floated up behind my eggs and bacon at breakfast and in the face of Buddy Willard, who was responsible for my seeing it in the first place, and pretty soon I felt as though I were carrying that cadavers head around with me on a string, like some black, noseless balloon stinking of vinegar.

I reckon a good poem lasts a whole lot longer than a hundred of those people put together.

I am a part of all that I have met." To you, whether or not you know, having wandered into the tissue of my life, and out again, you have left a momentary part of you which I will work into something. There is nothing but that it will suffer a sea change into something rich and strange. Through me transmuted.

You leave the same impression of something beautiful, but annihilating. Both of you are great light borrowers.

The one man since I've lived who could blast Richard.

I am terrified even to have known him, he makes all others mere puny fragments.

Buckminster Fuller, um dos maiores inventores e filósofos da nossa época, disse: "O propósito da nossa vida é acrescentar valor à vida das pessoas desta geração e das gerações seguintes.

Allí donde se dirige la atención, fluye la energía y aparecen los resultados».

sí puedes cambiar los frutos del mañana. Pero