Quotes About Impact

I often think about her. One thing she said stayed with me, a dagger in my heart: "You know for me the most horrible thing of all is knowing that he will forget me." I lacked the presence of mind to tell her that it was impossible; she was simply unforgettable.

But the Indians gesture touched me. It was nothing, but it was everthing. It took so little to mane a difference.

Never play the Devil's Advocate. Your words could be the difference between success and failure in someone else.

Gli uomini empiono il tempo, e le grandi opere lo allargano.

But my parents believed that if you've been blessed, you have an obligation to make a positive impact on the world. Altruism must run in the family.

that will benefit hundreds of people. Maybe thousands.

There are several important lessons to be learned from Nanking, and one is that civilization itself is tissue-thin.

Taking a life diminishes the taker. - Kadar den Arnaud

If you believe that no one was ever corrupted by a book, you have also to believe that no one was ever improved by a book.

A good photograph is one that communicates a fact, touches the heart and leaves the viewer a changed person for having seen it. It is, in a word, effective.

There is no deeper wound than humiliation. The momentary glory we may feel in humiliating someone is short-lived compared to the damage we cause.

Isn't it sad that you can tell people that the ozone layer is being depleted, the forests are being cut down, the deserts are advancing steadily, that the greenhouse effect will raise the sea level 200 feet, that overpopulation is choking us, that pollution is killing us, that nuclear war may destroy us -- and they yawn and settle back for a comfortable nap. But tell them that the Martians are landing, and they scream and run.

A planet full of people meant nothing against the dictates of economic necessity!

Considering what human beings do and have done to human beings (and to other living things as well) ... I can never imagine what the devil people think computers can add to the horrors.

No steel can pierce the human heart so chillingly as a period at the right moment.

No iron can stab the heart with such force as a period put just at the right place.

No iron spike can pierce a human heart as icily as a period in the right place.

No iron can pierce the human heart as chillingly as a full stop placed at the right time.

Wherever he went he left footprints so firm that nobody could later efface or blur them, not even he himself, when on rare occasions he was tempted to do so.

I influence people, hopefully on the positive side.

in the end, the only thing that matters is what we do with the time that we have left.

To feel obligated to finish all of your food is to be living with a mindset of scarcity. It is the little things from our childhood that have the longest impact.

To focus on your legacy when you're alive, is to detract from the time you could spend building it.

Your personal brand when consciously built can be a force for good, or a force for destruction.