Quotes About Impact

I feel connected to the Second World War because my father lost his father in that war. So, through my dad and the effect it had on him of losing his father young, I always felt connected to the war. It goes back years, but it still feels to me as if we're completely living in it.

When I was growing up my mother would say, 'Your dad may have to learn about being a father because he lost his own and that would have affected him'.

A word can change a mind, a sentence can change a life and a book can change the world.

I used to think that to make something happen in a corporation or in the army, you had to be at the higher ranks, to be a general. But you just need to start a movement.

At its core, creative confidence is about believing in your ability to create change in the world around you.

Everything in modern society is the result of a collection of decisions made by someone. Why shouldn't that someone be you?

kinetic energy goes up at the square of impact velocity,

Zeg nooit: ik heb gisteren een goed toneelstuk gezien. Zeg: ik was gisteren getuige van een relevante toneelervaring.

Life is like a sewer... what you get out of it depends on what you put into it.

If after hearing my songs just one human being is inspired to say something nasty to a friend or perhaps to strike a loved one it will all have been worth the while.

I don't think this kind of thing [satire] has an impact on the unconverted, frankly. It's not even preaching to the converted; it's titillating the converted. I think the people who say we need satire often mean, 'We need satire of them, not of us.' I'm fond of quoting Peter Cook, who talked about the satirical Berlin cabarets of the '30s, which did so much to stop the rise of Hitler and prevent the Second World War.

Guns aren't just history's props and agents: they're history itself, spinning alternate futures in their chamber, hurling the present from their barrel, casting aside the empty shells of past

She was surprised at how deflating his presence was.

Well, it is true. Sometimes avoiding something can give it more and more meaning rather than less and less.

There is no point in poverty if it does not make a rich man, observing it, feel better.

We find our vocational sweet spot when our creativity is most unleashed, our passions most engaged, and our work makes the greatest contribution to advancing the mission of the organization or the business where we serve.

We all basically live in a world that we define by the people who have disappeared.

Leaders don't create followers, they create more leaders.

The whole secret to our success is being able to con ourselves into believing that we're going to change the world because statistically we are unlikely to do it.

Statistically and emotionally, I believe that the way I can be of help to society is by doing what I know and what I've been good at.

fifty years later, part of the film's continued appeal lies in the fact that the mere mention of the title conjures up audience members' memories of watching the film for the first time. It's not just the film itself that is remembered, but the remembrance of watching it as a child.

No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world.

Technology is not good, it's neutral.

The man who said the pen was mightier than the sword ought to have tried reading "The Mill on the Floss" to Motor Mechanics.