Quotes About Impact

Wars might come and go, but the seven o'clock news lives forever.

No, I'm talking about you, Nathan. What right did you have to storm into my life and mess everything up?

Art is meant to provoke emotions, Avery. Its sole purpose is to arouse our senses, even if it disturbs. Even if it's ugly. Even if it fucking scares the living shit out of you.

He wasn't prepared for how deeply this female was impacting his life. He didn't have room for the trouble she was bringing into his solitary world. And he sure as hell wasn't prepared to deal with all of the feelings she'd been stoking inside him from the moment their eyes first met.

Jesus, could he take up any more space?

Remember that when he's slaughtering you. It's important that the guy strangling the life out of you is drop-dead gorgeous.

Good to see nearly dying hasn't affected the fact that you're an asshole.

Thus the greater impact occurs with strategies that focus on the primary prevention of diseases at the policy and environmental-change

In other words, risk-focused studies do not generally give us research-based answers or prevention

Eventually it became clear that our emotions, attitudes, and thoughts profoundly affect our bodies, sometimes to the degree of life or death. Soon mind-body effects were recognized to have positive as well as negative impacts on the body. This realization came largely from research on the placebo effect—the beneficial results of suggestion, expectation, and positive thinking.

Ever notice how the words I'm sorry always seem the lamest when you want them to mean the most?

Religion has caused more harm than any other idea since the beginning of time. There's nothing good I can say about it. People use it as a crutch.

One does not have humor. It has you.

Every election is determined by the people who show up.

The Talmud stresses that a group's behavior comes from the top: "The acts of the leader are the acts of the nation. If the leader is just, the nation is just; if the leader is unjust, that nation is also unjust and will be punished for the sins of the leader."' The term nation applies to any group of people, including companies.

Fortunately, there's a way to lessen the impact of spiritual amnesia. It's found in practicing the discipline of gratitude, the habit of regularly giving thanks for all God has done. It's such a powerful preventive that God actually commands us to give thanks in every circumstance.4 It's not that God needs the praise. It's that we need the reminder.

When I first entered the ministry, I dreamed of communicating God's Word so powerfully that people would mull it over and discuss it during the week. I envisioned impassioned discussions of the deep theological truth I'd presented in the sermon. I must have been smoking something.

Once people get a taste of frontline ministry, they don't let it go easily. Once the church has been let loose, it's hard to put it back in the box.

Serial innovators don't fall into the tinkering trap. They don't try to fix everything that's broken or improve things that aren't running perfectly. Instead, they focus on fixing the things that will make the biggest difference.

If you're changing the world, you're working on important things. You're excited to get up in the morning.

Life isn't like a box of chocolates. It's more like a jar of jalapenos. What you do today, might burn your butt tomorrow.

If there was no Black Sabbath, I could still possibly be a morning newspaper delivery boy. No fun.

The truth can both lift up and knock down.

It seems the misfortune of one can plow a deeper furrow in the heart than the misfortune of millions.