Quotes About Impact

Eres como Dios cuando fabricas productos para enriquecer las vidas de los demás, no para obtener un beneficio. El benefició vendrá, pero debe ser el Efecto y no la Causa de tu trabajo.

Every drop in the ocean counts.

You change the world by being yourself.

Writers are engineers of human souls.

I found that the Russians had destroyed much of their country trying to keep up with the United States in their arms race.

If you read a newspaper on any given day, you will see that most of the gains we are making as a society are still being done by activist citizens' organizations.

viewer has to be hit on the head with the same ad seven or eight times before it begins to register.

I couldn't imagine her leaving this world without ripping its fabric.

There's never any knowing—how am I to put it?—which of our actions, which of our idlenesses won't have things hanging on it for ever. —E. M. Forster, Where Angels Fear to Tread

software is not neutral. Different software embeds different philosophies, and these philosophies, as they become ubiquitous, become invisible.

All I write is, to me, sentimental. A book which doesn't leave people either happier or better than it found them, which doesn't add some permanent treasure to the world, isn't worth doing… This is my "theory", and I maintain it's sentimental - at all events it isn't Flaubert's. How can he fag himself to write "Un Coeur Simple"?

The Noted Activist

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certainly don't write as a public service. But I am aware, at least as a reader, that remarkable acts of art-making—bold, perverse, unbeholden, free—have had the side effect of changing the weather in a country, in a people, at a certain historical moment, and finally in me, conferring freedoms for which I am now very grateful.

And before there was Clara and Archie there was Clara and Ryan. And there is no getting away from Ryan Topps. Just as a good historian need recognize Hitler's Napoleonic ambitions in the east in order to comprehend his reluctance to invade the British in the west, so Ryan Topps is essential to any understanding of why Clara did what she did. Ryan is indispensable.

Make today worth remembering.

You never know when a moment and a few sincere words can have an impact on a life.

The sea was walking the earth with a heavy heel.

Something fell off the shelf inside her

He had a bow-down command in his face, and every step he took made the thing more tangible.

More people have read Hurston's works since 1975 than did between that date and the publication of her first novel

A message you abhor has to be trumped with a more powerful one.

Politics is too big a game to feel the absence of a Kamal Haasan.

I know that the absence of my father in my life had its cost.