Quotes About Impact

In my own work, I've tried to anticipate what's coming over the horizon, to hasten its arrival, and to apply it to people's lives in a meaningful way.

The more strikingly visual your presentation is, the more people will remember it.

Every one in a crowd has the power to throw dirt nine out of ten have the inclination.

To leave the world a little better than you found it. That's the best a man can ever do.

Raymond Chandler invented a new way of talking about America, and America has never looked the same to us since.

He has been marked by the past, and once that happens, nothing can be done about it. Something happens, Blue thinks, and then it goes on happening forever. It can never be changed, can never be otherwise.

A book is a mysterious object," I said, "and once it floats out into the world, anything can happen. All kinds of mischief can be caused, and there's not a damned thing you can do about it. For better or for worse, it's completely out of your control.

He did not seem to be a man occupying space, but rather a block of impenetrable space in the forum of a man. The world bounced off him, shattered against him, at times adhered to him - but it never got through.

When he talks about the world, then, he is referring to his world, to the small, circumscribed sphere of his own life, and not to the world-at-large, which is too large and too broken for him to have any effect on it.

That's all I've ever dreamed of, Mr. Bones. To make the world a better place. To bring some beauty to the drab, humdrum corners of the soul. You can do it with a toaster, you can do it with a poem, you can do it by reaching out your hand to a stranger. It doesn't matter what form it takes. To leave the world a little better than you found it. That's the best a man can ever do.

a book is a mysterious object, i said, and once it floats out into the world, anything can happen. all kind of mischief can be caused, and there's not a damned thing you can do about it. for better or worse, it's completely out of control.

Whatever you see has the potential to wound you, to make you less than you are, as if merely by seeing a thing some part of yourself were taken away from you.

According to them, when you think a dark or pessimistic thought, it produces a cloud in the sky. If enough people are thinking gloomy thoughts at once, then rain will begin to fall. That

But it does matter, Archie. Everything matters.

and cut down many trees. When the Humans

I was the best thing that could have happened to him, it was the worst thing that could have happened to him.

The January 2017 publication of Ayelet Waldman's, A Really Good Day: How Microdosing Made a Mega Difference in My Mood, My Marriage, and My Life further

That's the problem with history, we like to think it's a book—that we can turn the page and move the fuck on. But history isn't the paper it's printed on. It's memory, and memory is time, emotions, and song. History is the things that stay with you.

Too often, Democrats appeal to the head, not the heart. We focus on policy, not feelings. Position papers will not defeat Trump. Nor will trying to match him hate for hate. We need to tell folks how we feel, not what we think. Any Democratic message must begin by asking how we want people to feel.

Novel technologies and ideas that impinge on human biology and their perceived impact on human values have renewed strains in the relationship between science and society.

I am only one, but I am one. I can't do everything, but I can do something. And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something I can do." I was confused again.

Like most analyses, my conception of a meaningful activity is centered around significance and impact.

A meaningful life, at least to some extent, has to do with what one does and how one affects people.

As usual in psychology, the negative is more powerful than the positive.