Quotes About Impact

When the dust raised by the great events of modern history settles, the mediocrity of the protagonists leaves the historian dumbfounded.

The West withers every non-Western soul that touches it.

Phrases are pebbles that the writer tosses into the reader's soul. The diameter of the concentric waves they displace depends on the dimensions of the pond.

Praising an honest person who doesn't deserve it, always wounds them.

I care about the connection with the audience. Film is such a powerful medium. Movies can change the way people think.

I may be alone in this, but I do sense the power of film, in that movies have the ability to literally change people's minds. That's pretty powerful stuff when you consider that.

I want to make all kinds of movies. I do want to make big movies that are a lot of fun to go to, but I also want to make movies that are going to stimulate some thought and maybe raise some awareness.

Economists are surgeons who operate beautifully on the dead and torment the living.

What's the point of doing something good if nobody's watching?

We cannot hope for change, without action.

It s easier to impress someone than to give them pleasure.

Bombs do not choose. They will hit everything.

Do something about it, or shut up.

Ian Gittings : The Los Angeles earthquake of October 1,1987 measured 5.9 on the Richter scale. It killed eight people, injured scores more, and left 2,200 people homeless and more than 10,000 buildings badly damaged. However, Nikki Sixx was by far the most infamous Los Angeleno to react to the quake by running out of his house butt-naked and waving a crack pipe.

We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.

A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.

Certain persons in the world exist, not as personalities in themselves, but as spots or specks on the personalities of others. Always they are to be seen sitting in the same place, and holding their heads at exactly the same angle, so that one comes within an ace of mistaking them for furniture, and thinks to oneself that never since the day of their birth can they have spoken a single word.

You can do anything and smash anything in the world with a kopeck.

Not all companies have a Purpose—but enduringly successful ones do. Purpose

Harm could be wrought by inaction as much as action. And

If there are more and more environmental refugees, they are going to end up on your doorstep too.

It was the moment I realized what music can do to people, how it can make you hurt and feel so good all at once.

I know that if you spend enough on each person person in a village, you will change their lives. If you put in enough resources-enough mzungu,foreigners, technical assistance, and money-lives change. I know that....The problem is, when you walk, what happens? -Simon Bland

My birth was just an incident but my death will not go unnoticed