Quotes About Impact

Power is the ability to direct or prevent the current or future actions of other groups and individuals. Or, put differently, power is what we exercise over others that leads them to behave in ways they would not otherwise have behaved.

Tous les discours n'avancent point les choses; il faut faire et non dire, et les effets décident mieux que les paroles.

Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.

What you do today and tomorow has an effect on the rest of your life

Losing my mom at such a young age had a profound effect on my life.

People are like a pack of dogs sometimes. All right one by one, but together... together they do awful things they don't mean to do.

I wished there had been obvious signs of destruction on all of us kids: bruises or burn marks, something that indicated how violent our house was, but words and neglect don't leave visible marks. And that confuses even the person who knows better. (169)

Your sister strikes me as the type of driver who raises the rates for everybody else." "Good one, Ona

I read with a kind of curious terror, learning that words can pin their readers to place, confer permanence on the ethereal, make the unimaginable true.

He wrote that it would have been better for me to hear it all in person. What he meant was that paper was not strong enough to bear the weight of what he had to say but that he would have to test its strength anyway.

It is quite possible for a work of literature to operate as a war machine upon its epoch.

Author A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting generations to come.

My attitude towards peace does not depend on which war we are discussing. I think that words should do the work of bombs.

Of course America is responsible for the total body count. We started it, we own it, we sow, we reap, but we are also disconnected from the responsibility of our won dirty acts of war.

When they tote up our contribution," Luke once said, "all that can be claimed for us is that we took 'fuck' out of the oral tradition and wrote it plain.

People need to start to think about the messages that they send in the movies.

A good expository paper will benefit far more people than most research papers. A good text is worth a thousand of the usual trifles that appear in research journals.

I have no confidence issues with the impact or the quality of the music. No one in hip-hop, before this point and to this point, with all due respect, has done this.

Each person should see himself as though the entire world is on a delicate balance, and with one deed, he or she can tip the scales.

Each jubilating hand hand the potential to vivisect, each hailing mouth had the power to condemn someone to death.

I never look at the masses as my responsibility; I look at the individual. I can only love one person at a time - just one, one, one. So you begin. I began - I picked up one person. Maybe if I didn't pick up that one person, I wouldn't have picked up forty-two thousand....The same thing goes for you, the same thing in your family, the same thing in your church, your community. Just begin - one, one, one.

We cannot do great things on this Earth, only small things with great love.

Each of us is merely a small instrument; all of us, after accomplishing our mission, will disappear.

I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.