Quotes About Impact

Agressive music can only shock you once. Afterwards its impact declines. It's inevitable.

The first Velvet Underground album only sold 10,000 copies, but everyone who bought it formed a band

The Gulf Stream is part of a vast global conveyor belt of moving water that has the power to change climate and alter human lives.... The Atlantic conveyor system has power equivalent to one hundred Amazon Rivers and is one of the great drivers of global climate.

Today, our ecological sits seem to have overtaken our spiritual transgressions as the cause of climatic change.

The war keeps taking pieces of me anyway. Makes the rest of me harder to hit.

Once you saw someone die, you were never the same. A body always left its mark. Katie

My characterization influences your brain.

What chances are you willing to take to get what you want? What dangers do your choices create for other people?

Hearts and souls are moved by story and he who controls the cultural narrative controls the people.

How will I be remembered by my children? This is the true measure of a man.

I've never subscribed to the "words can never hurt me" point of view. Because if words can't hurt, then neither can they help or heal or inspire. Yes, words can brutalize. They can shame and scar. But people must be free to say them anyway. We protect free speech not because words are harmless, but because they are powerful.

When I was young," wrote Jim, "my ambition was to be one of the people who makes a difference in this world. My hope still is to leave this world a little bit better for my being here." And he did.

UNLESS someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.

There is no advertisement as powerful as a positive reputation traveling fast.

A constantly criticized child can loose as much confidence and self-esteem as one who remembers being humiliated on one particular, horrifying day. A child whose family is impoverished and has very little food available on a day-to-day basis might eventually suffer from the same psychological problems as a child who experienced one major episode of accidental near-starvation.

The experience is necessary to add emotional belief to intellectual understanding. But the impact of experience always fades to some degree.

I really believe that's one of the many reasons that God had put me right in the middle of the Backstreet Boys. There are so many stars today that don't realize the impact they have on young people. Being a superstar is great, as long as you can be a positive role model.

Reality poisons the spring of fantasy, whereas fantasy, when it erupts into the real world, brings destruction in its wake.

I looked at a photo of Martyn Duffey today and it shocked me seeing him so lifelike in that photo and dead, gone, destroyed by me, I can't stop thinking about it.

The primary human need, he decided—stronger than the need for food or sex or love—is the need for recognition, the need to make a mark in the world.

A man lives for as long as we carry him inside us

18Reckless words are like the thrusts of a sword, cutting remarks meant to stab and to hurt. But the words of the wise soothe and heal. 19Truthful words will stand the test of time, but one day every lie will be seen for what it is.

The battle for the gospel in the opening years of the twenty-first century is being fought not primarily in the lecture rooms of North American seminaries but in the shanty towns, urban slums and villages of Africa, Asia and Latin America.

Bus factor (noun): the number of people that need to get hit by a bus before your project is completely doomed.