Quotes About Impact

Great ideas are not polite. They never say they're sorry. They don't try to fit in. On the contrary, they force the world around them to make changes in self-defense.

The truth is, most people love change until it affects them.

The ability to subtract features is the rare gift of the true communicator.

Imagine what it would be like if TV actually were good. It would be the end of everything we know.

Each day we make dozens and dozens of small decisions. Each individual decision seems trivial and inconsequential. But together they add up to a habitual pattern that is either life-giving or life-quenching.

She thought how sharp words could sting when they held the truth.

There is no small act of kindness. Every compassionate act makes large the world.

it is (often) the quiet gesture which carries the most significance - the one which suddenly directs the symphony.

the empire created the emperors – not the other way round.

We have to be more reflective about what power is, what it is for

The more power flaunts itself in your face, the more it risks undermining its claims to be taken seriously. Ancient viewers were not all naïve consumers of any message that was thrown at them. Even if some would have looked on these statues in awe and wonderment, it is a fair guess that others would have walked by and laughed, or even spat. In the end, images of power are only as powerful as those who view them allow them to be.

We can take no credit for our gifts. It's what we do with them that matters.

If she thought the bad thought silently, but said the good thought out loud, then that was the one that would count in the end.

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

The gifts of an honorable, well-lived life are in those who will miss you once you're gone.

It stirs up envy, fame does. People...feel fame gives them some kind of privilege to walk up to you and say anything to you--and it won't hurt your feelings--like it's happening to your clothing.

A poor surgeon hurts 1 person at a time. A poor teacher hurts 130.

Gee, I never thought I had an effect on people until I was in Korea.

What happens if a big asteroid hits Earth ? Judging from realistic simulations involving a sledge hammer and a common laboratory frog, we can assume it will be pretty bad.

You can't leave footprints in the sands of time if you're sitting on your butt. And who wants to leave buttprints in the sands of time?

The man is a success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much; who has gained the respect of intelligent men and the love of children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who leaves the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who never lacked appreciation of earth's beauty or failed to express it; who looked for the best in others and gave the best he had.

Indifference is the strongest force in the universe. It makes everything it touches meaningless. Love and hate don't stand a chance against it.

One of the things which danger does to you after a time is -, well, to kill emotion. I don't think I shall ever feel anything again except fear. None of us can hate anymore - or love.