Quotes About Impact

You come back a changed man. Samuel, you don't change him. He changes you. I can see the look of him in your face." "Have you thought of the two little boys, Liza?" he asked. "I've thought of your

Life cannot be cut off quickly. One cannot be dead until the things he changed are dead.

When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you've got two new people.

The direction of a big act will warp history, but probably all acts do the same in their degree, down to a stone stepped over in the path or a breath caught at sight of a pretty girl or a fingernail nicked in the garden soil.

The direction of a big act will warp history, but probably all acts do the same in their degree, down to a stone stepped over in the path or a breath caught at sight of a pretty girl or a fingernail nicked in the garden soil. Naturally

It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.

Sometimes I think a do-gooder is the most dangerous thing in the world.

Ever' time Pa seen writin', somebody took somepin away from 'im.

There is little difference between this tractor and a tank. The people are driven, intimidated, hurt by both.

Jim said, "It's something that grows out of a fight like this. Suddenly you feel the great forces at work that create little troubles like this strike of ours. And the sight of those forces does something to you, picks you up and makes you act. I guess that's where authority comes from.

Y es que, como es natural, los hombres sólo se interesan por ellos mismos. Si el oyente no tiene implicación en la historia, no prestará atención, de lo que se puede extraer que una historia grande y duradera tiene que comprometer a todos, o no perdurará

But it isn't silly, this preoccupation with small time units. One thing late or early can disrupt everything around it, and the disturbance tuns outward in bands like the waves from a dropped stone in a quiet pool.

But this tractor does two things—it turns the land and turns us off the land. There is little difference between this tractor and a tank.

Well, tell me. You see, there's a responsibility in being a person. It's more than just taking up space where air would be. What

A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.

As if pity is, as he has been taught, not a helpless outcry but a powerful tide that could redeem the world...

The impact of an attacking tiger can be compared to that of a piano falling on you from a second story window. But unlike the piano, the tiger is designed to do this, and the impact is only the beginning.

A war doesn't merely kill off a few thousand or a few hundred thousand young men. It kills off something in a people that can never be brought back. And if a people goes through enough wars, pretty soon all that's left is the brute, the creature that we—you and I and others like us—have brought up from the slime.

If you are thinking about making some adjustments in you life to allow you to help change the world, my heartfelt recommendation is not to spend too much time thinking about it. Just dive in.

Sometimes, it's really important to move with all deliberate speed. If there is something out there that you want to do to make the world a better place, don't focus on the obstacles. Don't ask for permission. Just dive in. Don't let the naysayers get you down.

literacy is as vital as food, security, limiting population growth, and control of the environment. Education, after all, is the one issue that affects every other one. I think of it in the same way as dropping a pebble into a pond and getting a ripple effect. Educated people make more money and are more likely to escape poverty. Educated parents raise healthier children. ...The list goes on, just as ripples in a body of water emanate outward.

It does not matter if we have material wealth. What really matters is—what do we do with it? I have attained financial success at a young age, but that was mostly luck. I just happened to join the right company at the right time. The fact that I have money does not make me a better person. What really matters is what I do with it.

Of the 850 million lacking basic literacy, the UN estimated that two-thirds were women. This had a terrible carryover effect, as it's typically the women who are rearing the family's children. If the mother is educated, it is much more likely that education will be passed on to the next generation.

Did my job really matter? A successful year would only help a rich company get richer.