Quotes About Impact

And that my Soul embraces you this hour, and we affect each other without ever seeing each other, and never perhaps to see each other, is every bit as wonderful.

Why are there men and women that while they are nigh me the sunlight expands my blood? Why when they leave me do my pennants of joy sink flat and lank?

Like a stone dropped into a pond, an article of that sort may spread out its concentric circles of consequences.

he can make every word he speaks draw blood

The powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.

The greater the reform needed, the greater the personality you need to accomplish it.

I and mine do not convince by arguments, similes, rhymes, We convince by our presence.)

America's civilization perturbs the trajectories of all other civilizations just by existing.

What, in the end, makes advertisements superior to criticism? Not what the moving red neon says—but the fiery pool reflecting it in the asphalt.

Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.

And it always seems to me,' he went on ruminatingly, 'that, after all, we are nothing better than interlopers on the earth, disfiguring and staining wherever we go.

Violence was just as much about WHAT was happening as it was how it happened.

I mean, if you think about doing things to people like that, if you think about it too much, it gets all up in you and you can't control it after a while. Then they really got you.

Steve has a reality distortion field." When Hertzfeld looked puzzled, Tribble elaborated. "In his presence, reality is malleable. He can convince anyone of practically anything. It wears off when he's not around, but it makes it hard to have realistic schedules.

Steve's head dropped and stared at his feet. After a weighty, uncomfortable pause, he issued a challenge that would haunt me for days. Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water, or do you want a chance to change the world? Sculley felt as if he had been punched in the stomach. There was no response possible other than to acquiesce. He had a uncanny ability to always get what he wanted, to size up a person and know exactly what to say to reach a person, Sculley recalled.

When the sales guys run the company, the product guys don't matter so much, and a lot of them just turn off.

Greg Calhoun, who became close to Jobs right after college, saw another effect.

The computer and the Internet are among the most important inventions of our era, but few people know who created them.

He emphasized that you should never start a company with the goal of getting rich. Your goal should be making something you believe in and making a company that will last.

I want to make this a revolution, not an effort to squeeze out profits.

Public awareness is an important component of innovation.

The computer will never be as important to society as the copier."73

I cried in my office as he was showing me the idea, and I still cry when I think about it.

Alex Haley once said that the best way to begin a speech is "Let me tell you a story." Nobody is eager for a lecture, but everybody loves a story.