Quotes About Impact

Television and movies were our biggest teachers. When we came to the United States, the Vietnam War was just ratcheting up. And so the Asian faces that I saw on the news, they were the face of the enemy. Asian men, particularly, were either small, ineffective, or they were evil. And those messages were deeply, deeply embedded in me for many years.

What is astonishing about the social history of the Vietnam war is not how many people avoided it, but how many could not and did not.

What they fear, I think rightly, is that traditional Vietnamese society cannot survive the American economic and cultural impact.

Everybody who went to Vietnam carries his or her own version of the war. Only 10 percent engaged in combat; the American elephant, pursuing the Vietnamese grasshopper, was extraordinarily heavy with logistical support.

I believe history will come to view 9/11 as an event on par with November 22, 1963, the date on which John F. Kennedy was murdered, cutting short a presidency that was growing ever more promising. Dreams died that day in Dallas; it is easy to imagine the 1960s turning out rather differently had President Kennedy lived.

The most influential thinker, in my life, has been the psychologist Richard Nisbett. He basically gave me my view of the world.

I'm a mom, and my view of public education begins and ends with the fundamental question: Is this good for children?

Ultimately, the appraisal of Grant's presidency rests upon posterity's view of Reconstruction.

My films are like drinking a good beer, but pleasure doesn't mean that it cannot change someone's point of view.

Everything changed after 'Love Shack.' We went 'mainstream.' 'Love Shack' set what people viewed us as, because a lot of people didn't realize we had a career before that.

Roivant does not view - and has never viewed - Axovant as simply a 'vehicle' for developing intepirdine, but instead as a platform for the development of high-impact drugs in dementia and the neuroscience field more generally.

I'm going to change the way martial arts is viewed. I'm going to change the game. I'm going to change the way people approach fighting.

He never knew what hit him, and that would have comforted me, except . . . just for one second, he would have had to know, wouldn't he? There must have been a blur, a sense of the world exploding, a flashpoint of receiving more damage than a human body could endure.

They still had the power to hurt their children from the grave.

Economic change is always accompanied by social change. No one can stop that.

You see, Eversby Priory is in good hands: yours. You've changed hundreds of lives for the better, including mine. Whatever the word is for a man who's done all that…it's not 'scapegrace.'" West paused. "My God, I can feel sincerity rising in my chest like a digestive disorder. I have to stop.

A sad statement of a man's life, that the world should have been so improved by his absence.

I didn't realize what an impact having a No. 1 single would have. It connects me with people of different ages, and I get to travel all over the world.

Sometimes it's not the truth itself but the surprise that feels like a blow.

Whatever it was had become essential to their lives. The pair had been inseparable since the day Owen stuck his fingers in Luna's mouth.

I now spend my time solely on those activities that only I can do, and even then only on those activities that have the highest return. These

it was not scientists, but a reporter—Carlos Byars of the Houston Chronicle—who first made the connection. After listening to Hildebrand present the Arizona group's research at a scientific meeting, Byars told him about Penfield's earlier discovery of a potential impact crater—helping the scientists bring the mystery of the missing crater to its remarkably satisfying conclusion.

In fact, essentially most of the great movie disaster scenarios (with the exception of a zombie apocalypse) follow in the wake of a sufficiently big impact.

If you look closely and objectively, it becomes clear that life is just one big revolving door of people: some who matter, some who don't. Some that matter until they don't.