Quotes About Impact

Revolution? You're an idiot. You don't even know what that word means. Forget your precious Mao and Che and Fidel. If they've appeared on a T-shirt, they haven't changed shit. You want revolution, look at Alexander Fleming. Penicillin transformed the world in ways Lenin and Washington only dreamt of.

You want to change the world? Forget politics. Learn to code.

No matter how smoothly you tossed a stone into water, there were always ripples. Alongside

Because artists are more dangerous than murderers. The most prolific serial killer might have dozens of victims, but poets can lay low entire generations.

No matter how smoothly you tossed a stone into water, there were always ripples.

But one of the things I have learned during the time I have spent in the United States is an old African American saying: Each one, teach one. I want to believe that I am here to teach one and, more, that there is one here who is meant to teach me. And if we each one teach one, we will make a difference.

I'm OK with firing people when they fuck up, but canning them when they've done nothing wrong - that's painful. [on the layoffs needed after 9/11 hit the business]

Each one, teach one. I want to believe that I am here to teach one and, more, that there is one here who is meant to teach me. And if we each one teach one, we will make a difference.

If what we make comes back to haunt us , to define us and alter us, well, then, hadn't we better be very careful what we create?

That is how the dead survive: they live in our memories, and some of the times that is a good thing and beautiful, and other times it is not good, and then the dead are like a virus in the blood, an infection of the mind. Then,

That is how the dead survive: they live in our memories, and some of the times that is a good thing and beautiful, and other times it is not good, and then the dead are like a virus in the blood, an infection of the mind.

But some of our choices are bigger, not massive, but bigger, and they have an impact on the people around us: shall I help that old lady with her shopping, or not? Shall I say something kind to you when I meet you? Shall I laugh at your ideas, shall I walk through the world gently, or shall I push everyone aside?

The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.

The life of the dead is placed on the memories of the living. The love you gave in life keeps people alive beyond their time. Anyone who was given love will always live on in another's heart.

Look at you—instead of being dressed for success, you're dressed to depress.

Pour qui est né après la seconde guerre mondiale, ces événements vieux d'un demi-siècle sont comme des histoires de loups-garous. Cependant le message par lequel s'achève le compte-rendu de ces événements, et qui ne devait être que symbolique, est devenu d'actualité. (postface, 1993)

Most of us will never do great things. But we can do small things in a great way.

Better never means better for everyone... It always means worse, for some.

Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results.

The power of visibility can never be underestimated.

Some people are that - more than a parent, more than a role model, more than anything less than a religion.

Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else's life forever.

Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone's life forever.

Appreciation can make a day - even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary. -- Margaret Cousins