Quotes About Impact

Social media is great, I guess, but it feels like technology is the sapper of innocence.

Sometimes I don't think I've done anything to leave my mark in this world. I'm the kind of person the world leaves a mark on.

Success is causing the world around you to aspire to your inspiration.

You are not a success until you start changing other lives permanently.

You can be many miles away and press a button on a keyboard, and it can cause devastation.

Who you allow into the circle of your life will make the difference in the quality of your life.

School shootings were invented by blacks... and stolen by the white man.

You can only offend me if you mean something to me.

So much lies in our communications with one another--even the most fleeting and careless of insults can wound us, so you can imagine that if you feel a physical response to a passing curse from a stranger on the highway, pronouncements of failure and worthlessness from a parent or loved one will strike sharply deep within you.

If you didn't cry in season four's episode 'The Constant,' something is wrong with you; you were either distracted or, worse, it is possible you have no soul.

No one ever really dies as long as they took the time to leave us with fond memories.

These were conquests that were never reversed, and they affected the whole geopolitics of Europe and Asia ever after.7

I touch the future. I teach.

If I can get some student interested in science, if I can show members of the general public what's going on up there in the space program, then my job's been done.

I ask myself what gives a person, what gave that woman, the right to confront us with decisions that we are not equal to making, decisions that tear us apart and leave us feeling inferior, incompetent, guilty.

In any case, he made me think the unheard-of: The world could go on after our destruction.

My dad was the biggest influence on my life because he was never boring.

It's the actors who are prepared to make fools of themselves who are usually the ones who come to mean something to the audience.

In the last analysis, it all boils down to a population problem. Most of the ills covered in chapter 12 flow, directly or indirectly, from the fact that there are too many of us now on Earth

The activity of the young is like that of railcars in motion--they tear along with noise and turmoil, and leave peace behind them. The quietest nooks, invaded by them, lose their quietude as they pass, and recover it only on their departure.

The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts.

If I say "yes" won't this change the order of the world?

In order to effect great change, we need to look at how we can help those in our own communities as well as globally.

people who matter in our lives stay with us, haunting our most ordinary moments. They're with us in the grocery store, as we turn a corner, chat with a friend. They rise up through the pavement; we absorb them through our soles.