Quotes About Impact

Growing up, I saw my dad do charity work for children with health issues. That had a profound effect on me.

I suppose for me as an artist it wasn't always just about expressing my work I really wanted, more than anything else, to contribute in some way to the culture that I was living in. It just seemed like a challenge to move it a little bit towards the way I thought it might be interesting to go.

Speak in extremes, it'll save you time.

I pray] that we might not outlive our usefulness.

It isn't how much time you spend somewhere that makes it memorable; it's how you spend the time.

The shock of public hostility served as a stimulant. It made them acutely conscious of how society functioned.

Polite conversationalists leave no mark save the scars upon the Earth that could have been prevented had they stood their ground.

With music, you often don't have to translate it. It just affects you, and you don't know why.

Real beauty knocks you a little bit off kilter.

The technology is useful and convenient, but it has, in the end, reduced its own value and increased the value of the things it has never been able to capture or reproduce.

what factors external to the music itself can make it resonate for us. Is there a bar near the stage? Can you put it in your pocket? Do girls like it? Is it affordable?

God never intended for an individual to solve all of life's problems. He intended for each one of us to use whatever resources and gifts He gave us to make a difference where we are.13

Every addict is formed in the crucible of the memory of that first hit.

Graphic design will save the world right after rock and roll does.

The modern era is the briefest but most turbulent of the three main eras of human history. Whereas the era of foragers lasted more than 200,000 years and the agrarian era about 10,000 years, the modern era has lasted just 250 years. Yet during this brief era change has been more rapid and more fundamental than ever before; indeed, populations have grown so fast that 20 percent of all humans may have lived during just these two and a half centuries.

the conquests of the Achaemenid and Hellenistic dynasties encouraged commercial and intellectual exchanges reaching from central Asia to India to the western Mediterranean. In the East, the expansion under the Han and Tang dynasties had similar catalytic impacts within China. The intellectual residue left by these exchanges shaped the cultural traditions of the Persian, Indian, Chinese, and Mediterranean worlds.

As I see it, my job is to maximize my talents and experiences in a way that will help make the world better—to carry my own weight in impacting the universal trajectory of mankind.

Stones are raw, they blunt my paw, but words will never hurt me.

But of all the animals, man holds the fate of the world in his hands.

Brown inherited a growing economy, low inflation and rising tax revenues. If he had just done nothing, or stayed in bed, or taken up Scottish country dancing full time, or gone on holiday for the rest of his life and not meddled with the economy, he would have gone down in history as one of Britain's greatest ever chancellors.

Everything changed after AIDS," Dr. Molnár had just explained to him. "From then on, blood was more dangerous than shit.

So indirectly you can say it was Miles Davis who got the Byrds started.

John Coltrane, still playing at top intensity and volume, totally into it. He blew me out so bad I slid down the wall. The guy was still playing his solo. He hadn't stopped. I don't think he ever knew that I was in that room. He never saw that little ofay kid in the corner, you know, but he totally turned my mind to Jell-O at that point and that was my John Coltrane experience.

It's a really, really scary thing to stand here, to put words in people's mouths to say to God. It's terrifying to me. You potentially could mess someone up for...I don't know, eternity.