Quotes About Impact

Michael Jackson had a stable vision. He had a strong message, not only pop. People just fainted at his concert.

Uncle Brett had a definite vision that he was after, I don't think having a famous father affected him much.

The short-term vision is: I research on something which I can use tomorrow, and for some politicians it is even better if it's today. But if you do this, you can only do targeted research. If you only do targeted research, you lose the side-routes.

The most important thing you will do is yet to be seen. For me, I found my important thing to do when I learned to do surgery on the eye, when I learned to restore a person's vision.

If someone was having some surgery that was going to put them out for three months, it's something you should consider, with a man or a woman. What is the impact of having the C.E.O. or visionary out for three months?

Today, people idolize athletes and celebrities - and yes, highly successful and visionary business people like Bill Gates or Steve Jobs, but not the innovators who perhaps have not seen such high-flying levels of success. Can anyone name the inventors of GPS, which has such a huge impact on our lives today?

Crumb was such an influence on me. He's such a visionary, such a great artist, that he so shaped my artistic sensibilities on a certain level that I do owe everything to him. The way I see the world is largely changed by him.

General Sheryl Gordon is a trailblazer and visionary leader.

I'm trying to transmit the visions of creativity and build institutions that are incredibly catalytic to their fields.

how our histories affect the ways we think, feel, and behave and how at some point in our lives, we have to let go of the fantasy of creating a better past.

Relationships in life don't really end, even if you never see the person again. Every person you've been close to lives on somewhere inside you. Your past lovers, your parents, your friends, people both alive and dead (symbolically or literally) - all of them evoke memories, conscious or not. Often they inform how you relate to yourself and others. Sometimes you have conversations with them in your head; sometimes they speak to you in your sleep.

People don't always remember events or conversations clearly, but they do remember with great accuracy how an experience made them feel.

Before you speak, ask yourself, What is this going to feel like to the person I'm speaking to?

leaving the world a better place than she found it.

Words have power," Isaac answered. Words begin and end wars. They create and destroy families. They break hearts. They heal them. If you have the right words, there's nothin on earth you can't do." - Crave the Moon

We read to learn about the world. We write to change the world.

There will be sway.

Funny how you can measure time by pets that were not even your own.

Whiplash chatter. That was his Zoey.

A lesson learned at the muzzle has the virtue of never being forgotten.

What do you want want to be remembered for?" she asked tartly. He slowly shook his head. "I just want to be remembered.

words on paper are not the same as blood on hands.

sometimes, silence can be very loud

Miss Carson, you need to step outside and slap me again. The side you hit is mostly dead. You need to hit the other side of my face so I can feel it like I should.