Quotes About Impact

If the stone falls hard enough the ripples last a lifetime.

I feel a swell of pride. This. This right here is why I wanted to become a teacher. To know that it is possible to change the world for the better, in however small a way.

A handful of people, working at a handful of technology companies, through their choices will steer what a billion people are thinking today . . . I don't know a more urgent problem than this . . . It's changing our democracy, and it's changing our ability to have the conversations and relationships that we want with each other.' —Tristan Harris, former Google employee

Don't think your work matters more than it does.

Love at first sight might or might not be a thing, but love in a single moment is.

It seems impossible to live without hurting people.

When you watch the news and see members of your species in turmoil, do not think there is nothing you can do. But know it is not done by watching news.

Laughter, I realized, was the reverberating sound of a truth hitting a lie.

You see, doing one thing differently is very often the same as doing everything differently. Actions can't be reversed within a lifetime, however much we try . . .

Never understimate the big importance of small things.

It is strange how close the past is, even when you imagine it to be so far away. Strange how it can just jump out of a sentence and hit you.

Sometimes things are a change for the better and the worse at the same time, like the internet.

A quiet that had a presence, that was a force in the air.

It was strange, the significance of that moment for me and the insignificance of it for her. But then I reminded myself that when galaxies collide they pass right through.

inventions of things which they had no idea how to handle (the atomic bomb, the Internet, the semicolon)

You see, doing one thing differently is very often the same as doing everything differently. Actions can't be reversed within a lifetime, however much we try .

Happiness is not good for the economy.

That was the remarkable thing about humans—their ability to shape the path of other species, to change their fundamental nature.

You have the power to do good, and you know it.

Is happiness the aim?' 'I don't know. I suppose I want my life to mean something. I want to do something good.

I suppose I want my life to mean something. I want to do something good.

killing is not a stone you throw away, it is a boomerang that comes back and gets you on the head.

Robots and computers are taking people's jobs. Employers are taking people's weekends. Employment is becoming a dehumanizing process, as if humans existed to serve work, rather than work to serve humans.

Legacy. What a meaningless thing. All that work for a future in which they don't appear.