Quotes About Impact

There is no force in the world better able to alter anything from its course than love.

Power is not to be dropped from a plane

Entertainment is all right, but entertainment with an idea behind it is much more important.

How would you react if you learned that a sad and beautiful poem that touched you deeply had been written by a computer?

The only thing that rock & roll did not get from country and blues was a sense of consequences," the writer Bill Flanagan said to Neil Young in 1986.

Good art is always dangerous, always open-ended. Once you put it out in the world you lose control of it; people will fit it into their minds in all sorts of different ways.

The retreat and disappearance of glaciers—there are only 160,000 left—means we're burning libraries and damaging the planet, possibly beyond repair. Bit by bit, glacier by glacier, rib by rib, we're living the Fall.

It's exhausting, tiptoeing around someone who barges into your life with good intentions.

Today osteoporosis affects more than 75 million people in the United States, Europe and Japan and causes more than 2.3 million fractures in the USA and Europe alone.

Before I speak, I have something important to say.

This isn't a particularly novel observation, but the world is full of people who think they can manipulate the lives of others merely by getting a law passed.

Groucho Marx "This is not a book that should be set aside lightly - it should be flung with great force.

We don't need to be perfect to do good deeds in the world, but we need to be sincere in our efforts.

It cannot be denied that as institutions, churches do good work. They operate schools and hospitals. Their charity outreaches, which take care of the homeless, sick, and hungry, have real impacts on communities. And while there are certainly hellfire-and-brimstone preachers around, there is counterweight in Presbyterian and Methodist ministers, who are grounded in a modicum of rationality, using Biblical stories as fables to teach psychological and ethical principles.

In essence, oversimplification tends to take a partial truth and make it all powerful.

Il suffit d'un instant. Un regard. Une rencontre. Pour bouleverser une existence. La bonne personne, le bon moment. Le caprice complice du hasard.

Un peu de toi est entré en moi pour toujours et m'a contaminé comme un poison.

All it takes is an instant. To overturn your entire existence.

Jedino što je izvesno: iz jednog ovakvog putovanja ne izlazi se netaknut. Ne izlazi se bolji. Ne izlazi se ja?i.

Dengan semua TV, konsol permainan, komputer, dan ponsel di masa kini, layar dan jejaring menyerbu kehidupan kita sejak usia dini–dan membuat kita menjadi lebih buruk daripada lebih baik. [P. 199]

Una columna en el periódico, o un titular de portada, a veces influye más en el estado de ánimo de los jugadores que mi propia opinión. Así que tengo que ver qué titulares han sido publicados acerca de un jugador, y si tengo dos estrellas y hay tres titulares sobre uno de ellos, tendré que hablar con el jugador al que no le han dedicado ninguno.

Matar a alguien no deja indiferente a nadie. A nadie. No se mata a sangre fría, como piensan los que no han matado. Se mata a sangre caliente. Un avispero recorre las venas de quien asesina. Se siente en el dedo que va a jalar el gatillo. Un aguijoneo que provoca un golpe de sangre en el cerebro.

En la obra de un escritor con talento puedes hallar una frase, una sola, que te cambie la vida. En un escritor mediocre lo más que podrás encontrar es corrección gramatical.» En

Frases cuya construcción puede ser olvidada, pero no su efecto. Frases que nadie cita, pero que todos recuerdan. Frases que parecen escritas sin mayor esfuerzo, pero que pesan, gravitan.