Quotes About Impact

Whom one is speaking to - or which aspect of their character - fundamentally determines the meaning and consequences of an exhortation. 'Indulge Your Desires' comes across very differently on a billboard advertising SUVs than it does spray-painted across the broken windows of an SUV dealer. It follows that what you say is not nearly as important as how and when you say it.

I resent the hell out of the politicians and generals who force events on us that structure our lives, that dictate the memories we'll have when we're old.

No one here wants to admit it, but the United States is part of México's problem. The United States is feeding the beast, man. I thought maybe if I came here, I could make a difference.

And then there are a lot of people who come here because they actually want to try to do something good in this country. In my case, I was working at a newspaper in Sinaloa for years, trying to report on the drug war, trying to make people there aware of what was happening in their own backyard, but my bosses only had an appetite for the macabre. They kept sending me out to take photos of crime scenes that they'd plaster

Go make your mark on the world. Be a world changer! Live bold for Christ no matter the cost.

The true measure of your worth includes all the benefits others have gained from your success.

Eighty percent of all cultures are the same, it is the 20% that make a culture unique and slam dunks the brand promise to the customer.

I've helped create over 400 jobs in the worst economy of my lifetime. That's cool.

One thing about the greenhouse effect that makes it so difficult for some of us to take seriously is that it's invisible.

The idea that a sizable fraction of our carbon dioxide could stick around for hundreds of thousands of years hasn't reached mainstream consciousness yet,

the environmental consequences of our actions today are so large, powerful, and long-lived that they cannot be fully understood from a mere century-scale point of view.

Every creative force has an equal power to destroy.

Every journey starts with a small step, every wave a ripple.

Call it fate, call it synchronicity: you never know what your actions are going to lead to, or the possibilities they can cause. There is a ripple effect to every action you take, intended or not.

All my emotions and only my emotions are fueling my contribution to the world

Was it a thing, Flora wondered, that just happened to charismatic men—or maybe all men—how the world around them seemed to bend to their wants and needs?

Most descriptions of Mimi that have appeared in print were based on interviews with her – she outlived John by eleven years. She loved to fuel the image of the stern but loving aunt who provided the secure backdrop to John's success. But that wasn't the Mimi I knew. She battered away at John's self-confidence and left him angry and hurt.

It's a powerful thing to rescue something. It changes both of you.

Looking at the poster, I thought, Maybe we can't solve every big problem, but we can try to solve the ones we can.

If we blow into the narrow end of the shofar, we will be heard far. But if we choose to be Mankind rather than Jewish and blow into the wider part, we will not be heard at all; for us America will have been in vain.

She thought: How hard it is to change one's life. And again she thought: How terrifyingly simple to change the lives of others.

During the 350 years of the Atlantic slave trade, Muslim slave traders took an estimated 2.1 million enslaved Africans from the east coast to Arabian and Indian ports. Overall, the Muslim slave trade lasted twelve centuries and shipped approximately 14 to 15 million people. Possibly as many people were enslaved within Africa as were shipped west and east.

Man [as Bill often said] is a virus in shoes.

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once.