Quotes About Impact

once you can express yourself, you can tell the world what you want from it... all the changes, good or evil, were first brought about by words.

If you bungle raising children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.

If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do well matters very much." — Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis

Changing my own actions may not change the world, but it's a start.

The Doctor gave a modest shrug. "Well, I must admit that I made heads turn wherever I go. It's a burden that I just have to live with.

After the first death there is no other.' - Elizabeth Barrett Browning The first death changes everything, and all deaths afterward bring us back to the first death.

This is what kindness does, Ms.Albert said. Each little thing we do goes out, like a ripple, into the world.

In your life, if you're lucky enough, you are born during a moment in time when the world is ready for the change you're bringing.

I want to write this down, that the revolution is like a merry-go-round, history always being made somewhere. And maybe for a short time, we're a part of that history. And then the ride stops and our turn is over.

know now that what is tragic isn't the moment. It is the memory.

what I'm remembering now is her smile, the way she turned it on people and seemed to make them stutter. I was nineteen and had zero idea what this meant—this power, this deep confidence

One drop of water can cause ripples for miles!

I am smart enough to realize that people are the most trying creatures on earth and we drain energy from one another in wasteful useless ways and that would make those who need that energy from you pay a price.

Trace might have wondered why Magnus had aspired to such a high administrative position when it was clear he wanted to mold the youth of their species more than anything, except he knew his father had a driving need to control those gifts from a level where he would make the most powerful impact. It wasn't about making himself happy.

In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.

The computer is an enigma. Not in its making or its usage, but because man appears incapable of foreseeing anything about the computer's influence on society and humanity. We have most likely never dealt with such an ambiguous apparatus, an instrument that seems to contain the best and the worst, and, above all, a device whose true potentials we are unable to scrutinize.

Technique can leave nothing untouched in a civilization. Everything is its concern.

Armadas con todos los poderes, disfrutando de todas las riquezas que deben a la Ciencia, nuestras sociedades intentan aún vivir y enseñar sistemas de valores arruinados ya, en su raíz, por esta misma ciencia.

An event is never just what it is in itself and nothing more. It's what goes on around it, at the same time, that makes it — potentially — a tragic situation. You have to have been exposed to this, at least once, to understand it.

Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.

The road to the future leads us smack into the wall. We simply ricochet off the alternatives that destiny offers. Our survival is no more than a question of 25, 50 or perhaps 100 years.

You know, what 'New Girl' is doing is they're bringing in really cool people. These are home-run people who aren't your typical guest-star-type people.

When a rat pokes his head up from the sewer, he needs to be hit on the head with a shovel immediately. You cannot just sit back and think, 'Well, it's just one rat' or 'That's somebody else's problem.' Because it's never just one rat, and it eventually becomes your problem.

When people say you're charming you're in deep trouble.