Quotes About Impact

There's a genetic memory that stays on your bones. What you experience when you're young, I think it stays with you.

The first sexual experience is a significant imprinting of attention.

Regardless of whether you believe in the Singularity, you will most likely experience the benefits of it. But we don't really know.

I think my experience is going to make a difference, but I also think that my speed and power are going to make a bigger difference.

History was an incredibly damaging experience, and now it's over . . . in a sense.

I don't usually experience that because there are few people who intimidate me, but Woody was one of them.

In my experience, sometimes a movie just hits at the wrong time, gets the wrong press, or gets the wrong representation, and it gets misunderstood.

The Soviet experience was much worse than experts in the West had thought. That discovery had a tremendous impact both on the intellectual community and on the public at large.

When I experience something or feel something, that's kind of transferred to the audience. There's a lot of great breakthrough moments that come out of that.

My entire youth was spent with an incredibly ill parent... I don't think you can grow up that way and not be marked by that experience.

I'm not afraid of failure; I'm afraid of succeeding at things that don't matter.

If we achieve our sustainability targets and no one else follows, we will have failed.

If we do not get No Child Left Behind right for Limited English Proficient students, the law will be a failure for most schools in the 15th Congressional District, and for many across the nation.

I'd rather be partly great than entirely useless.

It doesn't matter what your probability of failure is. If there's a 90% chance of failure, there's a 10% chance of changing the world.

I have little doubt that the single greatest obstacle to the impact of the gospel has not been its inability to provide answers, but the failure on our part to live it out.

An effective speaker knows that the success or failure of his talk is not for him to decide - it will be decided in the minds and hearts of his hearers.

THE ONLY REAL FAILURE IS TO FAIL OTHERS.

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

It does not matter how frequently something succeeds if failure is too costly to bear.

It does not matter what you know about anything if you cannot communicate to your people. In that event you are not even a failure. You're just not there.

We must not fail, individually, for if we fail, we fail twice - for ourselves and for those who could have been helped, if we had done our duty.

The failure of The Cable Guy impacted my career. I had to start writing and acting again.

I think the company's [HP's] success will be my legacy. The company's failure will be my failure, with all the predictable consequences of that.