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Quotes About Impact

I turned so many people on to The Smiths before they got huge.
~ Hope Sandoval
When TV came, it was a very strong medium. It reached out to so many people and it could have made difference but we got into mundaneness of it.
~ Supriya Pathak
We never thought our music would reach out to so many people around the world.
~ Jennie
So many people have done Coke Studio but my song broke all records. I think I was highlighted too much after CS.
~ Momina Mustehsan
Drawing from personal experience and also knowing that so many people, kids, are still living without sanitary water... makes you want to make it easier for them.
~ Nyjah Huston
Everybody tells me they don't know how I have so much energy, and I think people feed off that, which is great.
~ DeAndre Yedlin
Here's the thing - if you want to do good things in the world, there's just only so much time that one can spend being glass half empty.
~ Chamath Palihapitiya
I don't believe in work-life balance. I think it's more about work-life integration because, increasingly, so much time of ours is spent doing work, so I've always wanted to dedicate my work life to having a social impact.
~ Elaine Welteroth
My goal is to make the biggest difference possible in the world. I have only so many resources and so much time.
~ Jeffrey Skoll
Something happened when the memoirs of so-called ordinary people, like myself, suddenly hit the bestseller list.
~ Frank McCourt
Somos lo que comemos» es una obviedad difícil de discutir y, sin embargo, como sugiere una simple visita a un cebadero, resulta incompleta, porque también somos lo que come lo que comemos. Y lo que somos, o aquello en lo que nos hemos convertido, no es solo carne, sino también maíz n.º 2 y petróleo.
~ Michael Pollan
Smil] estimates that two of every five humans on Earth today would not be alive if not for Fritz Haber's invention of the Haber-Bosch process.
~ Michael Pollan
The food industry burns nearly a fifth of all the petroleum consumed in the United States (about as much as automobiles do). Today it takes between seven and ten calories of fossil fuel energy to deliver one calorie of food energy to an American plate.
~ Michael Pollan
How this peculiar grass, native to Central America and unknown to the Old World before 1492, came to colonize so much of our land and bodies is one of the plant world's greatest success stories. I say the plant world's success story because it is no longer clear that corn's triumph is such a boon to the rest of the world, and because we should give credit where credit is due.
~ Michael Pollan
even the weather itself is in some sense an artifact now, its temperatures and storms the reflection of our actions.
~ Michael Pollan
If you hadn't done what you did," he told Weil, "I would never have become Ram Dass.
~ Michael Pollan
think big about who you are and what you offer the world.
~ Michael Port
If you are not affected, if you are not hurt by what we do, then you will not do anything to stop it. The war will simply continue.
~ Michael Shaara
nuclear has saved more than two million lives to date by preventing the deadly air pollution that shortens the lives of seven million people per year.
~ Michael Shellenberger
the first dead body I had ever seen
~ Michael Shellenberger
Between 1980 and 2018, U.S. carbon monoxide levels decreased by 83 percent, lead by 99 percent, nitrogen dioxide by 61 percent, ozone by 31 percent, and sulfur dioxide by 91 percent.
~ Michael Shellenberger
unless we do very, very disruptive actions, people do not want to talk to us.
~ Michael Shellenberger
It's not enough that you move through the world - you must change it to suit your expectations.
~ Michael Stein
If you ever manage to become perfect, you have to die instantly before you ruin things for everyone else.
~ Michael Thomas Ford