Quotes About Impact

Weigh words, don't count 'em.

Hate is like water in a dry gulch. The longer it runs, the deeper it digs.

The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.

Do something that will last and be beautiful. It doesn't have to be a bridge-or a symphony or book or a business. It could be the look in the eye of a child you raise or a simple garden you tend. Do something that will last and be beautiful.

blew out 5 million acres of fields, and in the space of a day carried off twice as much dirt as had been excavated by the United States in the decade it took to dig the Panama Canal.

A baby was like a revolution, Grigori thought: you could start one, but you could not control how it would turn out.

what people contribute to the world around them has everything to do with how they engage with the world within them.

If you want to change the world," he said, "who do you begin with, yourself or others? I believe if we begin with ourselves and do the things that we need to do and become the best person we can be, we have a much better chance of changing the world for the better.

All technologies are neutral. What counts is who uses them and what they use them for. Any material, any tool in the hands of an artist, can result in a work of art.

Una buena educación depende de una buena enseñanza».

Revolutions are defined not only by the ideas that drive them but by the scale of their impact.

The effect of education on a person's life depends on the sort of school they go to and the teachers they have.

Vivimos en una época de profundos «ruidos» y distracciones. El mundo es cada vez más turbulento. Es difícil sobreponerse al impacto que las tecnologías digitales ejercen sobre nuestra manera de pensar, vivir y trabajar. Sus beneficios son extraordinarios, pero también hay desventajas.

What you do for yourself dies with you when you leave this world, what you do for others lives on forever.

To see the past from the vantage point of the present is to be able to judge the effect of the past on the present.

The writer cannot be a mere storyteller; he cannot be a mere teacher; he cannot merely X-ray society's weaknesses, its ills, its perils. He or she must be actively involved shaping its present and its future.

The impact on future jurors has been documented by studies confirming that negative publicity contributes to negative results.

Words matter, words have import.

All families function as a system in which one person's actions affect another and vice versa.

That's our job as Christians—to perpetually bring renewal and supply everywhere we go. When things get out of hand and situations on earth start to go wild (whether it's the economy, or politics, or natural disasters) we're not supposed to jump into the flow of negativity with everyone else and start talking about how bad things are. We're supposed to change them! We're

Mothers and Dads: Your home atmosphere is the product of WORDS. Children fail because wrong WORDS were spoken. The right WORDS were not spoken.

What we decided in this room, more than a million of our fellow-citizens would read three months from now, and what they read they would accept as final.

There are only 266 words in the Gettysburg Address. The shortest sentence in the New Testament may be the most moving: "Jesus wept.

Bad writing slows things down; good writing speeds them up.