Quotes About Impact

And...what hurt can an unsaid word do? Can it be like an antibiotic withheld?

Yes, if you believed in words, if you lived by words, you had better be careful which words you say and how you say them. You had better be careful what you look up, which words, which names. Jane Clifford, in The Odd Woman

Our greatest responsibility is to be good ancestors."   (Jonas Salk)

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

words are merely loose gravel until glued together by the mortar of obscenity.

You fear that every effort has been meaningless, but it touches so many others that we can never calculate the impact of our lives, and that impossibility of calculation is a retort to finitude.

We can never do merely one thing.

It's funny that I got to do 'On the Road' because the thing that had the biggest impact on me growing up was reading books. I was very inspired by the book and this spirit of Dean Moriarty and how envious we all are of somebody who can be that carefree.

Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.

Nothing you do for children is ever wasted.

Nothing stuns others more than the quiet eruption of a normally quiet man.

People, if you pay attention to them, change the direction of one another's conversations constantly. It's like having a passenger in your car who suddenly grabs the steering wheel and turns you down a side street.

Can we not will ourselves to achieve the impossible? Can we not use the power of our life force to change something: one small thing, one insignificant moment, one breath, one gesture? Is there nothing we can do to change what is around us?

the result is what people live with, not the cause.

The Weather Channel is not about weather; it is about the world! It is about how weather affects us all, our entire global economy, health, happiness, spirit. The channel delves with great detail into weather phenomena of all different kinds—hurricanes, cyclones, tornadoes, monsoons, hail, rain, lightning storms—and they especially delight in the confluence of multiple phenomena.

For however much the Gateses might give away, their daily life remains, by and large, unaffected. They remain, in spite of this enormous donation, one of the wealthiest couples in the world. Mother Teresa, on the other hand, gave up everything to serve the poorest of the poor. Pinker

No matter who you meet in life, you take something from them, positive or negative.

I was growing up listening to Queen. Freddie Mercury threw those incredible melodies into his songs.

We carry our childhood with us.

No one ever comes back from Vietnam. Not really.

There is no Art made without power, and there is no reason for Art to be made except for power.

There are times...when we find ourselves in a position of great purpose. It may be that the apt word, spoken at the apt moment, leads to great good in the world—and most often, that is a word of kindness and encouragement.

child's life has greater and more lasting significance than

Movies are ultimately popular because they give people moments they remember and treasure.