Quotes About Impact

If television is a quick detour to mass stupidity, then video games are the express lane.

I have learned that we can live with a bad decision, but we are certain to be hurt by no decision.

On September 11th, America changed. Yes. It got much stupider.

As Robespierre once said of Marat, 'The man was dangerous: he believed in what he said.

so even an assassin can make the flowers grow. -variations on the death of Trotsky

the Mayflower landed not in a virgin land but a widowed land. Epidemic disease had already nearly emptied a long stretch of coastline that once thronged with people.

Say what you want about Hitler, but he trained killers. You train kids in their early years and you can do anything you want with that child. —Sparky Anderson, manager of the Detroit Tigers,        trying to explain why he prefers younger ballplayers

The answer is that we don't finish our work when we die. It lives on after us. What we have done on earth, if it amounts to anything, continues after we die physically. How could there be rewards and judgments when our earthly life is over? Our influence upon friends, family, the people we knew during our lifetimes, does not cease when our obituaries appear in the local paper.

If you do not influence them, someone else will. If you are not shaping their values, others will do it for you. The issue is not, Will my child be influenced? The issue is, Who will be that influence? Most parents I know prefer to wield the greatest influence in the lives of their children. They wisely want to make the major investment in their children's lives so that the values of their offspring largely reflect their own. That's the most basic rationale for investing

As the rudder controls a ship, so the tongue controls a person.

Howard Schultz, CEO of Starbucks, believed the most powerful brands are built from the heart.

Saya percaya jika sebuah buku tidak berdampak pada penulisnya, buku tersebut tidak akan berdampak pada orang lain.

Sometimes when you hit send, you can imagine the message going straight into the person's heart. But other times, like this time, it feels like the words are merely falling into a well.

The important people in our lives leave imprints. They may stay or go in the physical realm, but they are always there in your heart, because they helped form your heart. There's not getting over that.

If this continues, if this goes on, then when I die, your memories of me will be my greatest accomplishment. You memories will be my most lasting impressions.

I wonder if it's possible to start a new relationship without hurting someone else.

I am jealous of anyone who can make other people care so much.

Every two people cause and intersection. Every person alters the world.

The words that matter always stay.

Once you experience enormity, it lingers everywhere you look, and want to be every word you say.

I am not dangerous. Only the stories are dangerous. Only the fictions we create, especially when they become expectations.

She is no longer a person in his life; instead, she is a person that other people will remind him of.

I couldn't remember ordinary moments, only the ones that had made an impression. Ordinary moments were the ones that fell away first.

What i want is for what i want to actually matter.