Quotes About Impact

Bush asked whether killing bin Laden would end the problem. Pavitt and Tenet replied that it would make an impact but not end the peril.

yet here he was watching an American-led version of "what the Soviets did in Afghanistan.

The real cause of the beginning of the Great Depression was the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act. This shocking and totally unprecedented legislation ended up imposing an average 60 percent tax on more than 3,000 import items. It was the equivalent of exploding a bomb that devastated the global trading system.

No patience. No skill. No intelligence. Just brute strength. They have to break something. It's the only way they know.

Success is not just about your ability to achieve, but also your ability to serve through sharing. True success lives in our legacies

According to Green Cross Switzerland, 9 trillion gallons of water are used annually in textile production around the world. Most of it is dumped untreated.3

The thing I can't wrap my head around with artificial intelligence is its effect of doing away with the value you bring to the table in terms of labor. The ability to contribute is diminishing. There are fewer and fewer jobs where people can go home satisfied in the evening and say I did something amazing today.

and I have stopped eating tuna until the tuna nets cease killing tens of thousands of dolphins every single year.

For example, as you're reading this paragraph, our whales and dolphins are still dying painful lingering deaths.

I want to put a ding in the universe.

Everyone here has the sense that right now is one of those moments when we are influencing the future.

Things don't have to change the world to be important.

I think it's brought the world a lot closer together, and will continue to do that. There are downsides to everything there are unintended consequences to everything. The most corrosive piece of technology that I've ever seen is called television - but then, again, television, at its best, is magnificent.

The Japanese have hit the shores like dead fish. They're just like dead fish washing up on the shores.

And not just the right thing; it's profoundly the right thing to do, because the one argument for accessibility that doesn't get made nearly often enough is how extraordinarily better it makes some people's lives. How many opportunities do we have to dramatically improve people's lives just by doing our job a little better?

It is possible to cause seemingly biochemical changes through human emotional involvement. You literally have changed his chemistry by being his friend.

Without a mission and a sense of whom you write for, you aren't worth reading.

You're only as good or bad as your latest attempt to make some connection with the world...

It only takes a split second to smile and forget, yet to someone that needed it, it can last a lifetime.

Never question the power of one! Throughout history it has been the actions of only one person who has inspired the movement of change."

The value of a moment is immeasurable. The power of just ONE moment can propel you to success and happiness or chain you to failure and misery."

Everything is fraught with danger. I love technology and I love science. It's just always all in the way you use it. So there's no - you can't really blame anything on the technology. It's just the way people use it, and it always has been.

it is not the big events that hurt the most but rather the smallest questionable shift in tone at the end of a spoken word that can plow most deeply into the heart.

the way we perceive God affects everything else in our lives.