Quotes About Impact

Sabías que lo que ganan la mayoría de las personas no varía más allá de un 20% de la media de los ingresos de sus amigos más íntimos? Por eso sería mejor que vigilases con quién te relacionas y eligieses con cuidado con quién pasas tu tiempo.

Diz respeito também a contribuir para a vida dos outros. Diz respeito a ser fiel à nossa missão e à nossa razão de estarmos neste mundo neste momento. Diz respeito a acrescentarmos a nossa peça ao quebra-cabeça do planeta.

La finalidad de nuestra vida es añadir valor a la gente de esta generación y de las siguientes».

Parte de tu misión en la vida debe ser, pues, compartir tus dones y tu valía con la máxima gente posible. Eso

The by-product is that the more people you help, the "richer" you become, mentally, emotionally, spiritually, and definitely financially.

Que juegues a ser pequeño no sirve al mundo. Nada

A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance.

The big gorilla of homeowner tax breaks is the deduction for mortgage interest, which reduces income tax revenues by about $100 billion each year. That is, this one tax deduction costs more than the budgets of the departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Energy, the Interior, and the Treasury combined.

Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm; but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.

Half the harm that is done in this world Is due to people who want to feel important.

We must remember that what a writer does to people is not necessarily what he intends to do. It may be only what people are capable of having done to them.

It is certain that a book is not harmless merely because no one is consciously offended by it.

It is just the literature that we read for 'amusement' or 'purely for pleasure' that may have the greatest, least suspected, earliest influence on us.

Yes, that is what a claustrophobic world can cause: infections spread faster in confined space.

When it falls on your head, then you are knowing it is a rock.

Cuando te cae en la cabeza, entonces te das cuenta de que es una piedra. Binabik

Once in a very long time you come across a book that is far, far more than the ink, the glue and the paper, a book that seeps into your blood.

As I see the world, there's one element that's even more corrosive than missionaries: tourists. It's not that I feel above them in any way, but that the very places they patronize are destroyed by their affection.

In Morocco, said Osman, word spreads like a fire tearing through the depths of Hell.

Once in a very long time you come across a book that is far, far more than the ink, the glue and the paper, a book that seeps into your blood. With such a book the impact isn't necessarily obvious at first...but the more you read it and re-read it, and live with it, and travel with it, the more it speaks to you, and the more you realize that you cannot live without that book. It's then that the wisdom hidden inside, the seed, is passed on.

The last thing we wanted was for the Machiguenga to be sad again. Sadness appeared to bring out their violence.

I heard, when I was in Delhi, that the men of the West are studying the construction of the atom, and have guessed at the force imprisoned in it. Wait until they have learned how to explode the atom, and then see what they will do to one another.

Every family has its secrets, and those secrets can run deep—deeper than lies, deeper than death. And they impact every member of that family in ways we can't know.

If there was one thing from which people never recovered, it was childhood. If there was one tie that could never truly be broken, for good or for ill, it was to family.