Quotes About Impact

The Earth Organization will also create a definitive guide of what can be done in our personal lives to make a difference.

People don't get to change things. Things change people once in a while, but people don't change things.

People don't get to change things. Things change people once in a while, but people don't change things.

The heaviest impact of the work of art is in the guts. Art does not reason. It manhandles you and changes you...

We have to raise the consciousness the only way poets can change the world is to raise the consciousness of the general populace.

Cuando se podía establecer una conexión inmediata entre el jefe del Estado y el sargento más novato de la línea del frente, las decisiones meditadas de toda la cadena de mando podían evaporarse por unas cuantas frases imprudentes y torpes.

El impacto de la mejor historia siempre se rebaja cuando el narrador carece de credibilidad.

Greatness lies in persuading others to work for good.

Little things are big.

When someone witnesses something amazing, what matters most is not 'out there' . . . but deep within, at the vital emotional center of witness.

Kurt and I weren't the closest of friends, but I knew him well enough to be devastated by his death. For such a quiet person, he was so excited about having a child.

Naught is too small and soft to turn and sting.

You know, I don't think a lot about why one book connects with its readers and another doesn't. Probably because I don't want to start thinking, "Am I popular?" I spent way too much time thinking about that in high school.

Every now and then, I have blissful moments of thanking God for all the amazing things that are happening. When I leave the White House after just meeting Obama or when I see my face on the cover of 'Rolling Stone' or when I meet someone who tells me that their daughter is inspired by me, those are moments that are incredibly joyful.

I have always found that the only kind of statement worth making is an overstatement. A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries further.

You are what you share.

The occasion's enormity: The birth of a friendship being no less momentous than the instant of falling in love.

Compare Facebook posts to Gutenberg's Bible, and civilization seems to be going down the drain. But compare tweets to indulgences, and it's much of a muchness.

Why do people let me speak to them so rudely? If they'd let me get away with less, I might think what I said mattered more.

Steve kept impressing on us that the design was integral to what would make us great,' said Schiller.

a person should not have to choose between doing good and doing well

Jobs had been famously stingy when it came to charities, arguing that the most charitable thing he could do was increase Apple's value so that shareholders had more money to give away to the causes of their choice

Coding gives people the ability to change the world and from my perspective, it's the most important second language and the only language that is global

leave the world a better place than we found it