Quotes About Impact

The I.B.M. machine has no ethic of its own; what it does is enable one or two people to do the computing work that formerly required many more people. If people often use it stupidly, it's their stupidity, not the machine's, and a return to the abacus would not exorcise the failing. People can be treated as drudges just as effectively without modern machines.

A good teacher must be content to be a sower rather than a reaper," he said. "Teachers must not expect to see immediate, specific, concrete results of their efforts. If they have any effect upon their students, it will show up later in life, long after their students have left them." The same can be said of the pastoral ministry.

We have to face the reality of climate change. It is arguably the biggest threat we are facing today.

No man is truly great who is great only in his own lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.

We may give more offense by our silence than even by impertinence.

Grace in women has more effect than beauty.

One has no notion of him [William Cobbett] as making use of a fine pen, but a great mutton-fist; his style stuns readers…. He is too much for any single newspaper antagonist; "lays waste" a city orator or Member of Parliament, and bears hard upon the government itself. He is a kind of fourth estate in the politics of the country.

To impress the idea of power on others, they must be made in some way to feel it.

It is said that to this day that educational establishment still bears the scars of their activities.

We live in a stage of politics, where legislators seem to regard the passage of laws as much more important than the results of their enforcement.

A man never knows exactly how the child of his brain will strike other people.

There is no end to the good you can do if you don't care who gets credit for it.

Psychologist Richard Gerrig defines a narrative as a device that temporarily mentally transports the listener or reader away from their immediate surroundings; when it ends, they return to their surroundings "somewhat changed by the journey.

The incense trade catalyzed the birth of Islam, whose military, spiritual, and commercial impacts transformed medieval Asia, Europe, and Africa. Riding on a rising tide of global trade along the land and sea routes of Asia, Islam came to dominate that continent's spiritual as well as its commercial life.

In one of history's most bizarre chains of causation, the brutal, efficient newcomers were driven by a hunger for, of all things, culinary ingredients that today lie largely unused in most Western kitchens.

There is but one unconditional commandment, which is that we should seek incessantly, with fear and trembling, so to vote and to act as to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.

The great use of life is to spend it for something that outlasts it.

To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.

We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never to be undone. Every smallest stroke of virtue or of vice leaves its never so little scar…. Nothing we ever do is, in strict scientific literalness, wiped out.

Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.

The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.

I am done with great things and big things, great institutions and big success, and I am for those tiny, invisible molecular moral forces that work from individual to individual, creeping through the crannies of the world like so many rootlets, or like the capillary oozing of water, yet which if you give them time, will rend the hardest monuments of man's pride.

The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.

My place in history will depend on what I can do for the people and not on what the people can do for me.