Quotes About Impact

Westerners who've never traveled abroad don't realize the extent to which American movies and actors, and Hollywood imagery, dominate overseas cinemas and markets.

among the Arabs a gifted poet was like a multitude of men, for his verses were repeated from mouth to mouth. If good, he was a power for good; if evil, a power for evil

The hope of leadership lies in the capacity to deliver disturbing news and raise difficult questions in a way that people can absorb, prodding them to take up the message rather than ignore it or kill the messenger.

An adaptive change that is beneficial to the organization as a whole may clearly and tangibly hurt some of those who had benefited from the world being left behind.

It makes a difference whose ox is gored.

Pestis eram vivus ... moriens tua mors ero - "Living, I was your plague ... dying, I shall be your death.

When it comes to faith, what a living, creative, active, powerful thing it is. It cannot do other than good at all times. It never waits to ask whether there is some good work to do, rather, before the question is raised, it has done the deed, and keeps on doing it

My father and mother did not think they should have brought a superintendent into the world.

Thus although Nebuchadnezzar no longer remembered his dream, yet he could not forget the impression it made.

If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write.

Even if it falls your lot to be a street sweeper, go on out and sweep streets like Michelangelo painted pictures; sweep streets like Handel and Beethoven composed music; sweep streets like Shakespeare wrote poetry; sweep streets so well that all the host of heaven and earth will have to pause and say, "Here lived a great street sweeper who swept his job well."

Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society ... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.

Alcoolul este legat de istoria omenirii ÅŸi c? num?r? mai mulÅ£i adepÅ£i decît creÅŸtinismul, budismul ÅŸi islamismul la un loc.

The global village will have its village idiots and they'll have global range.

It seems to me that any sensible person must see that violence does not change the world and if it does, then only temporarily.

Future generations are not going to ask us what political party were you in. They are going to ask what did you do about it, when you knew the glaciers were melting.

I honestly do not know if civil disobedience has any effect on the government. I can promise you it has a great effect on the person who chooses to do it.

Some people never contribute anything positive to society, they may even drain our resources, but most of us try to do something better, to give back.

There were other ways of battering women too, ways that did not involve physical violence, and Kate sometimes thought that the mental battering was worse.

His soft voice was his trademark and he had a saying: You can do more with a soft voice than a big stick.

Once things were said out loud, they could never be taken back. They were out there for ever.

You can do more with a soft voice than a big stick?

They didn't mean that the sins a parent might commit would be visited on their offspring. The words actually meant that the mistakes a parent made while they were bringing up their children would be visited on the second, the third, even the fourth generation.