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Quotes About Impact

I don't care if people like my character. I just want them to think about the movie's message.
~ Ellen Page
I don't really care if people get upset. I think I'm doing my job if people get upset; I want them to think! We all want them to think, hopefully.
~ Emma Caulfield
Vanity metrics are the numbers you want to publish on TechCrunch to make your competitors feel bad.
~ Eric Ries
If I can make an impact, I want to help some kids and bridge the gap between soccer and celebrity in America.
~ Ethan Zohn
Honestly, I don't know if I'd want to be an educator. I find teachers to have more responsibility, in a way, than being a parent. You're molding hundreds of minds every year.
~ Eva Amurri
Help the world in any way that you want to. I have found that the more light you give and spread, the more you will evolve.
~ Frederick Lenz
Knowledge is not enough. It never is. It's the capacity to do something with that knowledge. To do it perfectly. Absolute timing. With devastating consequences.
~ Steven Erikson
Stones make no splash on a frozen lake.
~ Steven Erikson
An unfortunate side effect of education among the masses is lack of respect.
~ Steven Erikson
As with all things, layer settles upon layer, and in time the deepest, darkest ones become forgotten – yet they have shaped all that lies above.
~ Steven Erikson
Fuck one thing and it fucks everything else. The
~ Steven Erikson
There were looks that killed, and then there were looks that conducted torture.
~ Steven Erikson
It was as if a giant invisible hand had reached down to the Crown, closing to gather in every building, crushing them all while pushing down into the hill.
~ Steven Erikson
Light exploded behind Felisin's eyes as she sprawled sideways.
~ Steven Erikson
Memories and revelations settle in like poisons, never to be expunged.
~ Steven Erikson
am. Tehol possesses what Hull does not. Knowledge is not enough. It never is. It's the capacity to do something with that knowledge. To do it perfectly. Absolute timing. With devastating consequences. That's what Tehol has. Hull, Errant protect him, does not.
~ Steven Erikson
Wind slapped them against the cliff face, then yanked them outward in a biting swirl of airborne sand.
~ Steven Erikson
Like a wing sweeping them into its embrace, the storm closed around them.
~ Steven Erikson
But words were indeed ephemeral, able to sleet past all manner of defences, quick to cut, eager to draw blood.
~ Steven Erikson
Knowledge is not enough. It never is. It's the capacity to do something with that knowledge. To do it perfectly. Absolute timing. With devastating consequences.
~ Steven Erikson
Look, Tammy, it's part of our mandate. We barrel in, we fuck things up, and then we walk away feeling good about our selves.
~ Steven Erikson
It is the curse of leaders to believe they can truly change the world. A curse that has even afflicted me, it seems.
~ Steven Erikson
Soviet woman of child-bearing age had six to eight abortions. This translated into 10 million to 16 million abortions per year. (The comparable figures for the United States were 0.5 abortions per woman and roughly 1.5 million abortions per year.)
~ Steven F. Hayward
It screamed downward, splitting air and sky without effort. A target expanded in size, brought into focus by time and velocity. There was a moment before impact that was the last instant of things as they were. Then the visible world exploded.
~ Steven Galloway