Quotes About Impact

We just wanted to have fun. Mia wanted us to change the world.

and without taking along a Cadet who will change the way I breathe for the rest of my life

Necesito sentirlo todo desesperadamente, de modo que cuando suceda algo maravilloso, el contraste sea tan enorme que guardaré el impacto como un tesoro durante el resto de mi vida.

How can you just forget a person completely until the moment you see his face again?

This happens...people coming in from South Auckland get to Mount Albert right?...and the thing it's like, hopefully, we could divert some of that traffic and criminals away from Mount Albert...

You don't know what someone's going to walk away from a movie with, but you hope it's something positive, but if nothing, you want them most basically to be entertained and engaged. That's your job. But you also hope to give them something to chew on or maybe some insight into the human existence, you hope a little bit. Not to sound too lofty.

Jesus, you are hereby officially welcomed into me. Now only action will reveal your effect on me.

The sword the body wounds, sharp words the mind.

a principle called the unreasonable effectiveness of data.

The past lies beneath the surface, intransigent truth. Remembered or not, what we say and do remains, always.

I'll tell you this, though. It's not true, that saying about sticks and stones; it's words that break your bones.

Whether the melon falls on the knife or the knife falls on the melon, it's the melon that suffers." And so it would appear to me

Sweet like syrup of ipecac, she leaves my system with my guts in her hands.

What counts is what you do with your money, not where it came from.

Silence is golden when it's called for. Silence can be deadly when it's not called for

A política é desses incêndios que se acendem na casa do outro e quem arde é a nossa casa.

A guerra cria um outro ciclo no tempo. Já não são os anos, as estações que marcam as nossas vidas. Já não são as colheitas, as fomes, as inundações. A guerra instala o ciclo do sangue. Passamos a dizer: "antes da guerra, depois da guerra". A guerra engole os mortos e devora os sobreviventes.

A guerra cria um outro ciclo no tempo. Já não são os anos, as estações que marcam as nossas vidas. Já não são as colheitas, as fomes, as inundações. A guerra instala o ciclo do sangue. Passamos a dizer: "antes da guerra, depois da guerra". A guerra engole os mortos e devora os sobreviventes.

Meu pai era um homem que enchia o mundo, o pé dele entrava em casa e sentíamos o balanço do seu peso como se, de repente, estivéssemos num pequeno barco". My father was a men that filled the world, his foot entered homeand we felt the the swing of its weight, like, suddenly, we were in a little boat.

Nor did I grasp the capacity of love's absence to destroy, that my lack of love for myself made my own life unbearable. You take someone whose life experiences have taught them they're worthless, string them out on drugs, and you have one miserable person. How could I have given what I didn't have? It's hard to value another life when you view your own as dispensable, hard to understand how you can have so great an effect on someone else when you don't think you matter.

You don't just want to beat a team. You want to leave a lasting impression in their minds so they never want to see your face again.

Yet his experiments led him to a contradictory conclusion. Programming did not teach people how to think—he realized he knew too many narrow-minded programmers for that to be so, now that he considered the question in depth. The truth was the converse: Every individual's ingrained way of thinking affected how he or she programmed.

Kay remained preoccupied with a lesson he had assimilated from Marshall McLuhan: Once humans shape their tools, they turn around and "reshape us.

Thank you with everything that is in me for changing my life, for impacting me for eternity.