Quotes About Impact

Yeah, but just think if we spent that money on early childhood education and nutrition.

he had fired the shot that had killed one male adult and one female child. With

There is a kind of white that is more than white, and this was that kind of white. There is a kind of white that repels everything that is inferior to it, and that is almost everything. This was that kind of white. There is a kind of white that is not created by bleach but that itself is bleach. This was that kind of white. This white was aggressively white. It did its work on everything around it, and nothing escaped.

vaporised thousands of people in the centre of Hiroshima, leaving their shadows scorched into the walls behind them

Every time humans discovered a new resource, or technique for using mass and energy, one side effect has always been pollution. Why should the information age be any different from those of coal, petroleum, or the atom?

Where is it written that one should only care about big things?

By one way of reckoning, we transformed several hundred cubic kilometers of fossil fuels into two cubic kilometers of human beings.

And yet we've flashed from caveman to world wrecker in just three hundred generations.

I suppose, all told, I've done more good than evil in my life, but that's incidental, a product of happenstance and the bizarre caprices of the world.

The point of being a teacher is to do more than impart facts, it's to shape the way students perceive the world, to help a student absorb the rules of a discipline. The teachers who do that get remembered.

no philanthropist has done more than Soros to soften America's drug laws. Soros got behind that cause in the mid-1990s, funding a new drug policy think tank and bankrolling the push for medicinal marijuana, widely seen as a bridge to legalization. Today, two decades after Soros began his push—and many tens of millions of dollars later—several states have legalized pot, and more are likely to follow.

There's something heroic about wealthy crusaders who aim to spend down their fortunes to improve society—that is, assuming you like what they're doing. If you don't, that sense of urgency can be unnerving. How many liberals, for example, would be thrilled if the Koch brothers announced that they intended to give away their vast fortune as quickly as possible to make "America a better place"?

My Dad used to say that if every man just took care of his own family, the world would be a much better place.

Just as you're pushing for more efficiency throughout the organization via process change, you can also keep your organization increasingly slender and nimble as you grow by maintaining a leadership corps that is relatively small and stable but that punches far above its weight.

It did not eliminate the tumor, but it did restore her missing self-esteem, and that made all the difference in the way she felt.

Knowing the truth is fairly useless; feeling it is profound; living it makes all the difference.

A short period of time with a father who is absolutely present, full in love, undivided inside, and sure of his mission in life, will affect your children much more positively than if they spend lots of time with a father who is ambiguous in his intent and has lost touch with his deepest purpose, no matter how much he loves his children.

the world might be better off if more people accepted responsibility and dealt with consequences. — Dave Drake david-drake.com

Isn't it odd how the little things can change a man's entire life?

Centuries pass when nothing happens, and then in a few short years events of such tremendous importance take place that the world is never the same again.

But Tom, said the moon, the swinging of your pendulums! Everyone's a pendulum swinging, to and fro, and always you're getting hit by someone else's swinging pendulum. You're minding your own business, but someone else'e pendulum is swinging around, and pow! you get it in the head.

Whatever your favorite genre is, you can probably trace your love for it back to one single book that really moved you.

Writers change the world one heart, one mind, at a time. That should be enough to keep us going.

Readers often become fans of a genre after discovering one defining work in that genre.