Quotes About Impact

Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.

All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

Be it true or false, what is said about men often has as much influence on their lives, and especially on their destinies, as what they do.

The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.

There is one thing stronger than all the armies of the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.

Woorden kunnen nietige stukjes arsenicum zijn: ze worden ongemerkt ingeslikt en lijken geen uitwerking te hebben, maar na enige tijd is de gifwerking er toch.

I believe the pogroms of November '38 made less impression on the nation than cutting the bar of chocolate for Christmas.

to make him pay you for your product, you must make it pay him to read about it.

The only important thing about design is how it relates to people.

There are professions more harmful than industrial design, but only a very few of them.

You are responsible for what you put into the world.

SAP with its sharp fangs was biting everyone in the behind, for our good, we are told

I appreciate many wonderful and brilliant discoveries made by humanity during the years of the Industrial Revolution. Yet, the radical transformation of the human diet was rather destructive.

Attitudes are contagious. Mine might kill you.

I know that by what I write cannot change the wrong world, but I can change the wrong attitude of the world toward me.

Words can be said but it's the attitude that defines their value. Attitude is the anchor of every word we say or everything we do.

You don't have to save the world, but you can be in the world-that's where the beauty comes from

The point is that it doesn't matter if you look like a beast before or after the hit, as long as you look like a beauty at the moment of impact.

Grace in women has more effect than beauty.

Everything you do either adds to the beauty of the world or takes away from it.

Beauty magazines make my girlfriend feel ugly.

I want to change the world, and do something valuable and beautiful. I want people to remember me before I'm dead, and then more afterwards.

I like to dedicate myself wholeheartedly to a cause so that I have more impact. My goal is to shed light on the beauty of the ocean and how important it is for our planet.

[On vanity:] The nose of Cleopatra: if it had been shorter, the face of the earth would have changed.