Quotes About Impact

He was big, that Sid. He was a force, a character, and I wondered fleetingly if Sally and I would ever seem as big to our offspring as Sid had seemed to us.

Change must begin with the parent. In Deuteronomy 6:6, God tells parents, "these words that I command you today shall be on your heart." Our children need to see in our own lives daily what we want to see in theirs.

Albert Einstein once said, "The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.

after twenty-five years of treating trauma survivors, I have learned that getting hit is actually one of the more bearable ways a person can be assaulted.

Humans touch stuff all the time, I wish they wouldn't.

Fucking up a planet, even part of a planet, for no reason was kind of a big deal, and I was surprised they had gotten away with it. Okay, no, I wasn't surprised.

I tuned down my pain sensors and the impact sites faded from explosions down to embers. (I know that's actually not a permanent solution and pretending bad things aren't happening is not a great survival strategy in the long run, but there was nothing I could do about it now.)

It was like she could see me through my visor, which was a terrifying enough thought that my performance reliability dropped 3 percent.

intentions in the world, cannot fix what is wrong

Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression. —Haim Ginott

Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun.

Has it ever happened to you...? The color of the day suddenly changes to shadow. And you know you're going to remember that moment for the rest of your life.

The children of the nuclear age, I think, were weakened in their capacity to love. Hard to love, when you're bracing yourself for impact. Hard to love, when the loved one, and the lover, might at any instant become blood and flames, along with everybody else.

Too many engineers are wrapped up in what they call technology and the gadgets, the hardware, and they forget that the whole purpose of technology is to make peoples' lives better. People forget that, and I have to keep reminding them. We are trying to improve the human experience. That's what technology is all about.

Because normal human activity is worse for nature than the greatest nuclear accident in history.

deeds," Stanley remembered later.

If I don't practice for two weeks, my audience notices. If I don't practice for a day I notice.

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

from a small one. That's because, if you are looking at the original, its impact is physiological. In the same way, standing next to a big tree feels quite unlike being next to a sapling.

A machine has value only as it produces more than it consumes — so check your value to the community.

Hitler destroyed the German university with design; we destroyed ours without.

Social reform aims to improve the condition of the poor by worsening the condition of the rich.

When people cry, it creates a "bookmark" in their brains—it is a moment, or experience, they are unlikely to forget.

Indian children are more likely to be malnourished than children from Zimbabwe, Somalia and the Democratic Republic of Congo, Africa's three poorest countries,1 and in Delhi, nearly 5 million school-aged children have irreversible lung damage from that city's air quality, which is twice as bad as Beijing's.2