Quotes About Impact

Taken as a whole, maltreatment and neglect demonstrate a powerful capacity to create enduring dysfunction in multiple domains. The earlier in a child's life maltreatment occurs, the greater the risk of enduring and pervasive problems into adulthood (Perry, 2005, 2008).

her feelings were unusual creatures. Sensitive as a coral reef to any personal criticism, but entirely oblivious to any hurt she inflicted on anyone else.

In 1945, two fumbling mid-ranking American officers who knew nothing about the country used a National Geographic map as reference to arbitrarily cut a border to make North and South Korea, a division that eventually separated millions of families, including my own grandmother from her family.

Helen made you think like the world would end without your art.

these quotidian moments that as a whole were more life-changing than losing your virginity or having your heart broken.

After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.

After I am dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.

I remember arguing that moral greatness had little meaning without action to effect the moral end.

Save the Children, an organization whose research has proved repeatedly that money in women's hands benefits families much more than money flowing to men.

Women, it says, "manufacture men and play a great role in guiding and educating the [new] generation. The

A canoe paddle is animate, because it causes something else to move. Even a humble onion has, in their view, a soul, since it causes action—pulling tears from the eyes.

I need, I suppose, to account for my life, and for my part in Caleb's crossing from his world into mine, and what flowed on from it.

bigger numbers make better headlines.

The main thing history can teach us is that human actions have consequences, and that certain choices, once made, cannot be undone. They foreclose the possibility of making other choices and thus they determine future events.

I can't let important policy decisions hinge on the fact that an election is coming up every 90 days.

One does evil enough when one does nothing good.

Never underestimate the power of an unsolicited candy bar or Starbucks drink.

Use simple words, words that _create pictures_ and _action_ and that _generate feeling._

Words that do not create images should be discarded. Words that have no intrinsic emotional or visual content ought to be avoided. Words that are directed to the sterile intellectual head-place should be abandoned. Use simple words, words that create pictures and action and that generate feeling.

Very likely education does not make very much difference.

Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.

Silent gratitude isn't very much use to anyone.

Obra de tal modo que cada uno de tus actos sea digno de convertirse en un recuerdo

Just as the ripples of a stone thrown into a pond will spread further and further away from the source, so the ripples of the disaster in 1948 hit my parents first and then spread to us and to our children long afterwards. Seeing only the ripples, it was easy to confuse the original cause with its effects.