Quotes About Impact

I've learned that everyone can do their part to repair the world

Ein jüngerer, intelligent aussehender Mann mit langem Haar fragte mich, ob Filmen, bzw. Gefilmtwerden, Schaden anrichten könne, ob es eine Person vernichten könne. In meinem Herzen war die Antwort ja, aber ich sagte nein.

A man so easily influenced is to be treasured." "As

Funnily enough, Paul was in his work because he liked people. He'd seen the CIA take such incredible shit over the years and save so many damn lives. The Company could not defend herself, not without giving away secrets she was bound to keep. So she just took it. He'd seen the effects of all the Company bashing in his own life.

I would love to teach every kid to say fuck. Hang on, now, hang on, listen to why. The reason is because to me, that is a word that doesn't have any effect. But stupid and dummy? You can say it to someone who is six and you can say it to someone who is a hundred and six and they will hunch their shoulders and it will be like somebody kicked them in the stomach because they are harsh, ugly words.

People have the power we give them. Words have the power we give them.

a machine cannot be understood aside from its end-user and the cultural ambience in which it works. The role of the end-user is to insert that part of the iceberg of cultural knowledge that cannot be programmed. Progress

Kelimeler bizi yaralayacaklar? zaman devleÅŸir, bize hizmet edecekleri zamansa cüceleÅŸirler.

The past and present rose side by side, at that supreme moment — and the contrast shook me.

The answer almost unmanned me.

In the end, nothing is lost. Every event, for good or evil, has effects forever.

If we rated greatness by the influence of the great, we will say Muhammad is the greatest of the great in history

The past is not dead. Indeed, it is often not even past.

It is a mistake to think that the past is dead. Nothing that has ever happened is quite without influence at this moment. The present is merely the past rolled up and concentrated in this second of time.As quoted in The Gentle Philosopher Will Durant

privately he composed—in French—a poem expressing his pleasure at having given the French a kick in the cul, which Carlyle delicately translated as "the seat of honor.

When Germany defeated Napoleon it was a disastrous to culture as when Luther defeated the Church.

When a man is interested in the past he writes history; when he is interested in the future he makes it.

Many simple peoples feared the exceptional individual as a disintegrating force; there is a Chinese proverb that "the great man is a public misfortune.

There is, again, a "Multiplication of Effects": one cause may produce a vast variety of results, and help to differentiate the world; a word amiss, like Marie Antoinette's, or an altered telegram at Ems, or a wind at Salamis, may play an endless rôle in history.

When sakura fall from the branch, the shock waves can shatter entire cities.

He who desires but acts not, breeds pestilence.

We all possess, like it or not, the people we know, and are possessed by them in turn.

You know that feeling, when you can almost see the two or several directions your life might take ahead of you, a moment when you know that the next choice you are about to make is going to be crucial and possibly final, that there is no going back, and that nothing will ever be the same again?

It is dangerous to leave written that which is badly written. A chance word, upon paper, may destroy the world. Watch carefully and erase, while the power is still yours, I say to myself, for all that is put down, once it escapes, may rot its way into a thousand minds, the corn become a black smut, and all libraries, of necessity, be burned to the ground as a consequence. Only one answer: write carelessly so that nothing that is not green will survive.