Quotes About Impact

Events," wrote George Ball, paraphrasing Emerson "are in the saddle, and ride mankind.

He was ever conscious of his obligation to play well. Late in his career, when his legs were bothering him and the Yankees had a comfortable lead in a pennant race, a friend of his, columnist Jimmy Cannon, asked him why he played so hard—the games, after all, no longer meant so much. "Because there might be somebody out there who's never seen me play before," he answered.

Newspapers might have as much to do in shaping the course of public events as politicians

encouraging applicants to reflect on why they wanted to join the police and why it mattered to their community – boosted the pass rate of minority group applicants by 50 per cent, while leaving white applicants unaffected.

The thing is, if you're an ugly goon when you're 15, you're an ugly goon for the rest of your life — until the day you die. You're always a goon, even if lots of years go by, even if you get married and have a kid, even if you're more successful than you ever thought you'd be in your wildest dreams. You're still that same goon who everybody laughed at. It never changes.

Celebrity means that I can affect people in a positive way.

Lincoln's Gettysburg Address was 272 words and he delivered it under three minutes. He labored on it for days. The "featured speaker," Edward Everett, rambled on for two hours. Most people don't even remember his name, never mind what he said.

Everything is connected to everything else, and nothing is without consequence

The Crusades - the most signal and most durable monument of human folly that has yet appeared in any age or nation.

the Church acts immediately.

Success should be judged on how few people are homeless, not by how much more it costs every year to buy a house.

Never settle for the lesser ambition. The job, the title, the conventional loyalties and rewards. Stay focused on the larger ambition, which is making a difference in the world.

this minority will be the one that makes history, because the majority will always follow where there's a tough minority to lead the way. In

Mass action by everyday black people was just as powerful a tool for social change as the lawsuit, and maybe more so. If

Gay liberation was not part of the Comparative Politics course, but Goldyn drew "a good-sized crowd" one evening during that term when he spoke on gay activism, and a column he wrote for the student newspaper ended by declaring that "the point of liberation, sexual or otherwise, is to rewrite the rules." Goldyn made a huge impact on Barry Obama.

When a particular measure is used as an indicator of the performance of a system, people may choose to target that measure, improving its value but at the cost of other aspects of the system.

It's not that your most important work is meaningless; it's that your most trivial movements are also significant.

Periodic revivals of Plato's and Aristotle's ideas made a great impact on the church and pagan societies in the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, and on much of today's culture. These ideas have been mass marketed. Many have eaten of these men's fruit, not realizing the roots of what they were taught. The ideas of these men have insidiously clouded the clear understanding of the Bible for many, setting us up to view women as an inferior, subordinate "other".

Why did I write this? " Although I desire that all kinds of readers enjoy my novel, my deepest wish is that it finds those readers that really need it. In a way like when I re-read The Outsiders countless times during reading time in the fourth grade or when I read Kerouac's book is in high school.

Do it because it needs to be done. Do it to make your world better…just a little at a time.

and that dumbass deer—sorry, that beautiful creature of God—that thing's character was drawn within the limitations of a non-sentient brain. It stood there, unmoving, as the car closed the last fifty feet on it; it just hunched there, watching Death come hurtling at it, staring at the car like, well, like exactly what it was, there's a goddamn good reason for that cliché, so maybe it was fitting that the first thing that hit the deer was the headlight.

Death, becoming obsolete, and trying to make a mark before leaving the world were all themes he returned to repeatedly

It's really cool to know that you've put something together that isn't for a particular audience. It's so often that a TV show can really only speak to one sect of the population, and this really is something that appeals to a worldwide fan base. People who are into the pursuit of knowledge. Their reaction has meant the world to us.

He was little more than a hammer with which to beat people over the head, an instrument for