Quotes About Impact

Men destroy countries; Women destroy universes.

We have no reason to think that climate change is harmful if you look at the world as a whole. Most places, in fact, are better off being warmer than being colder. And historically, the really bad times for the environment and for people have been the cold periods rather than the warm periods.

Write injuries in sand, kindnesses in marble.

Der Inhalt der Physik geht die Physiker an, die Auswirkung alle Menschen.

Meldungen stürzen die Welt nie um. Das tun die Tatsachen, die wir nun einmal nicht ändern können, da sie schon geschehen sind, wenn die Meldungen eintreffen. Die Meldungen regen die Welt nur auf, man gewöhne sie sich deshalb so weit als möglich ab.

News reports don't change the world. Only facts change it, and those have already happened when we get the news.

The future influences the present just as much as the past.

Wherever Germany extends her sway, she ruins culture.

My time has not yet come either; some are born posthumously.

The Earth has a skin and that skin has diseases, one of those diseases is man.

On a beau accuser l'Occident de répandre ses erreurs dans le monde entier, encore faut-il quelqu'un qui les accepte.

When New York passed its Internet sales-tax law, Amazon's sales in New York State dropped 10 percent over the next quarter, according to a person familiar with Amazon's finances at the time.

Just as Clayton Christensen had predicted in The Innovator's Dilemma, technological innovation caused wrenching pain to the company and the broader industry

Each group was required to propose its own "fitness function"—a linear equation that it could use to measure its own impact without ambiguity. For example, a two-pizza team in charge of sending advertising e-mails to customers might choose for its fitness function the rate at which these messages were opened multiplied by the average order size those e-mails generated.

the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and John F. Kennedy, the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Final Solution, "9-11." We might even be able to rattle off the dates of these awful events—but the lesson, we haven't yet absorbed. And until we really learn it, kids will keep getting new dates to memorize for history class.

Don't waste any time during the day. What you do right now becomes the seeds for raising up the next crop of wise people. Putting everyone at ease by doing your job well is how you transform yourself and everybody else.

Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you're there.

God, how we get our fingers in each other's clay. That's friendship, each playing the potter to see what shapes we can make of each other.

To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world.

Art is changing lives and motivating the world around us.

Set yourself on fire and the world will come to see you burn

The monuments of Man are worthless if no one is left to carry their meaning.

What matters is, I will remember you, Cole. It can be hard to know how you impact people. Somewhere there might be entire kingdoms that will never forget you, where people young and old speak of you with awe and consider your birthday an important holiday.

I don't have nightmares," Muriel said. "I give them to other people.