Quotes About Impact

Hitler no doubt killed more people than Genghis, but he had twentieth-century technology at his disposal.

dinin gerçekten de kötü etkilerinden biri, anlamadan tatmin olman?n bize bir erdem olduÄŸunu öÄŸretmesidir.

How can we know whether the course of a life would have been changed by some particular alteration in its early history?

Books have a way of finding their way into our lives, usually, right when we need them the most.

We are seldom taught that the key to experiencing a meaningful life is to make a difference in the lives of others.

I simply would not accede to being forced into this, and would frequently be kept out of classes because of irreverent comments and mocking this religious stuff. Frankly, it stayed with me to this day. In fact, don't get me going. I'm almost as bad as Richard Dawkins on this issue.

Everything changed with the First World War. The Middle East was reorganized, redefined, and the seeds were planted for a century of bloodshed.

To be effective, demonstrators must pick the right square and make it the center of their activities.

But sometimes things are said and they're not just words. They are everything that one person thinks of another in a sentence. Just one sentence.

Maybe he doesn't really think it now. But sometimes things are said and they're not just words. They are everything that one person thinks of another in a sentence. Just one sentence.

As a meteorite strike long ago explains the large lake now, so Amy's absence shaped everything, even when—and sometimes most particularly when—he wasn't thinking of her.

It's hard to go through life without killing someone.

It was striking, the character of destruction. It was always diverse

Conversations with adults other than a person's parents had more of an outcome.

Houses can have this almost authorial power over us, seeming to ruin or make perfect our lives just by persisting in one place longer than we can. (In either case it's a power worth defeating.)

The first misconception is that it is possible to avoid influencing people's choices.

When you are famous it is hard to work on small problems. This is what did Shannon in. After information theory, what do you do for an encore? The great scientists often make this error. They fail to continue to plant the little acorns from which the mighty oak trees grow. They try to get the big thing right off. And that isn't the way things go. So that is another reason why you find that when you get early recognition it seems to sterilize you.

True greatness is when your name is like ampere , watt , and fourier —when it's spelled with a lower case letter.

If you don't work on important problems, it's not likely that you'll do important work.

Moral: to the extent you can choose, work on problems you think will be important.

climate change is the greatest and widest-ranging market failure ever seen

Third parties are like bees: once they have stung, they die.

The echo of the first shot, like the first sip of whiskey, burning...

Kültür, kirli hava gibidir. Fark?nda olmasan?z dahi etkilenirsiniz.