Quotes About Impact

Plastic bags are bad and for the most part unnecessary.

I have mothers with small children come to me and say, 'You found that I had early breast cancer - because of you, I don't have cancer.' You've just prevented that person from dying early, and to prevent an early, unnecessary death is incredibly meaningful.

We do take seriously our obligation to assess whether our reforms are achieving their desired effects without imposing unnecessary burden.

I think what we forget is that everybody loses when we keep unnecessary privilege. The cost to society overall is much greater.

I look at the way that my kids interact with technology, and it becomes a mirror to the ways in which I myself interact with technology. I can see the ways in which that addiction and compulsion starts to settle in on them, and it's much more unnerving to see it in them than it is to experience it myself.

I tried not to let all the criticism affect me, but it obviously does not go unnoticed.

One of the demonetization benefits, in some markets like used cars, is that organized, transparent businesses are gaining at the cost of unorganized players.

When women are expected to bear the burden of unpaid work, everyone loses.

Teachers are unparalleled in the role they play in children's lives.

Television has an unparalleled reach.

If someone says something unpleasant, I can't say it doesn't smart a bit. It always does. Someone can take a really nasty swipe if they want because it kind of feels powerful for a person to write in a paper and get that thing out there.

The only possible effect one can have on the world is through unpopular ideas.

When Reagan left office, he was the most unpopular living president, apart from Nixon, even below Carter. If you look at his years in office, he was not particularly popular. He was more or less average. He severely harmed the American economy.

Dr. King was unpopular while he was alive - he's only popular now because he's dead and not a threat to anyone.

I am not concerned about getting reelected. I can make the unpopular but necessary decision. Your focus from day one is on your legacy rather than political considerations.

It's hard to name a person who is unpopular who has influence.

The Russian revolution was to an unprecedented degree the cause of the proletariat of the whole world becoming more revolutionary.

If we hit the debt ceiling, that's... essentially defaulting on our obligations, which is totally unprecedented in American history. The impact on the economy would be catastrophic.

During these last ten thousand years, we have made massive, unprecedented changes to the environment, creating problems for ourselves that we may not be able to solve.

The outbreak of COVID-19 has created an unprecedented situation around the world.

American power confers benefits on most inhabitants of the planet, even on many who dislike it and some who actively oppose it, because the United States plays a major, constructive, and historically unprecedented role in the world.

Word of mouth now has a unprecedented influence because it spreads so far and so fast.

I believe that social change has almost reached critical mass. So many people have undergone personal transformation that their effect on society is having a geometric - not arithmetic - impact. This coalescence of energies brings about meeting, networking, and a sophistication in communications that is unprecedented in history.

I can confidently say that I significantly contributed in making unprecedented history at TFC.