Quotes About Impact

One encounter in particular stayed in my memory

Most people come to Africa to see large or outlandish animals in the wild, while some others — "the new gang — the gang of virtue" — make the visit to tell Africans how to improve their lives. And many people do both — animal watching in the early morning, busybodying in the afternoon.

If you didn't want drugs in your country, we wouldn't have cartels in ours.

Education in Mexico turns people into activists.

the horrendous gash of its mine-works

An old Japanese friend recently confided to me: ' I can't forgive to americans for the fact that Hiroshima wasn't an act of war, but an experiment'.

Il faut penser à ce qui arrive - nous sommes les producteurs de l'avenir.

Bombe atomique hier, bombe informatique aujourd'hui et, demain, bombe génétique?

All TV is educational. The question is, 'What are we teaching?

I too have lost audience members. Six million have left the theater.

but now the news of the world aged him more than time itself.

It would stay with him always as everything you ever did stayed with you, every horse you ever saddled, every morning he awoke with Maria Luisa beside him, and every slap of the paten on fresh paper, every time he had thrown open the shutters in the Betancort house, and his captain dying under his hands, always there like a tangle of telegraph wires in the brain where no dispatch was ever lost, what an odd thing, an odd thing.

Story of O is one of those books which marks the reader, which leaves him not quite, or not at all, the same as he was before he read it.

In the long run what people think about shepherds and bakers becomes more important for them than their own destinies.

In the beginning there was only a small amount of injustice abroad in the world, but everyone who came afterwards added their portion, always thinking it was very small and unimportant, and look where we have ended up today.

The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion.

of all the weapons of destruction that man could invent, the most terrible-and the most powerful-was the word. Daggers and spears left traces of blood; arrows could be seen at a distance. Poisons were detected in the end and avoided. But the word managed to destroy without leaving clues.

When we both experienced the love that consumes, we shared in the Absolute. The Absolute shows each of us who we really are; it is an enormous web of cause and effect, where every small gesture made by one person affects the life of someone else. This morning, that slice of the Absolute was still very much alive in my soul. I was seeing not only you but everything there is in the world, unlimited by space or time.

If you're a nobody, if your work has no impact, then it deserves to be praised. If, however, you climb out of that state of mediocrity and are a success, then your defying 'the law' and deserve to be punished.

The young all have the same dream: to save the world. Some quickly forget this dream, convinced that there are more important things to do, like having a family, earning money, traveling, and learning a foreign language. Others, though, decide that it really is possible to make a difference in society and to shape the world we will hand on to future generations.

Our task is not to leave a record of what happened on this date for those who will inherit the Earth; history will take care of that.

It isn't what you did in the past that will affect the present. It's what you do in the present that will redeem the past and thereby change the future.

What is a Gift? A Gift is your way of serving the world.

everything you do in life will leave a mark