Quotes About Impact

We have destroyed something by our presence," said Bernard, "a world perhaps.

I should implore you to remember your responsibilities, to be higher, more spiritual; I should remind you how much depends on you, and what an influence you can exert upon the future.

The early train from the north is hurled at her like a missile. We draw a curtain as we pass. Blank expectant faces stare at us as we rattle and flash through stations. Men clutch their newspapers a little tighter, as our wind sweeps them, envisaging death. But we roar on. We are about to explode in the flanks of the city like a shell in the side of some ponderous, maternal, majestic animal.

Thus, when one takes a sentence of Mr B into the mind it falls plump to the ground— dead; but when one takes a sentence of Coleridge into the mind, it explodes and gives birth to all kinds of other ideas, and that is the only sort of writing of which one can say that it has the secret of perpetual life.

If Shakespeare had never existed, he asked, would the world have differed much from what it is today?

As a plant on the river-bed feels the shock of a passing oar and shivers: so she rocked: so she shivered.

I was a daisy fresh girl and look what you've done to me.

The bowl that emerged was one of those gifts whose first impact produces in the recipient's mind a colored image, a blazoned blur, reflecting with such emblematic force the sweet nature of the donor that the tangible attributes of the thing are dissolved, as it were, in this pure inner blaze, but suddenly and forever leap into brilliant being when praised by an outsider to whom the true glory of the object is unknown.

But then what does it matter whence comes the gentle nudge that jars the soul into motion and sets it rolling, doomed never again to stop?

Let at least one word of my writings impregnate the reader's heart.

Él me destrozó el corazón. Tú apenas me destruiste la vida

He broke my heart. You merely broke my life

A bowling ball rolled through his head, diagonally from nape to temple; it paused and started back

El delicioso hecho íntimo ocurrido anoche había sido la causa de que todo el caleidoscopio de su vida variara, y había evocado el pasado de un modo avasallador.

If I broke her heart, her image of me would break too

Messages communicated through numbers seldom stick with people

Few products and services are used in a vacuum. In most cases, other products and services affect their value

The key to tipping point leadership is concentration, not diffusion

What trends have a high probability of impacting your industry, are irreversible, and are evolving in a clear trajectory? How will these trends impact your industry? Given this, how can you open up unprecedented customer utility?

the lot in life of any particular sheep depended on the type of man who owned it.

Looks like what drives me crazy Don't have no effect on you-- But I'm gonna keep on at it Till it drives you crazy, too.

The most important thing about a technology is how it changes people.

Anonymous blog comments, vapid video pranks and lightweight mash-ups may seem trivial and harmless, but as a whole, this widespread practice of fragmentary, impersonal communication has demeaned personal interaction.

Great acts are made up of small deeds.