Quotes About Impact

At every word a reputation dies.

To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.

Where, one step broken, the great scale's destroyed: From Nature's chain whatever link you strike,  Tenth or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike. 

Your death and my death are mainly of importance to ourselves. The black plumes will be stripped off our hearses within the hour; tears will dry, hurt hearts close again, our graves grow level with the church-yard, and although we are away, the world wags on. It does not miss us; and those who are near us, when the first strangeness of vacancy wears off, will not miss us much either.

Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life.

If you are going to bore people, don't bore them with the Gospel. Bore them with calculus, bore them with earth science, bore them with world history. But it is a sin to bore people with the Gospel.

You can't rewind war. It spools on, and on, and on, looping and jumping, distorted and cracked with age, and the stories contract until only the nuggets of hatred remain and no one can even remember, or imagine, why the war was organized in the first place.

Bu özel giysili hizmetkar ve süslü araba dizisi Orazio'nun meslek ya?am?nda çok yararl? bir i? görmü? oluyordu. Bunun ad? prestijdi, zaferdi.

The reality is that being controversial generates attention for a little while, but it's usually not good for your career in the long term.

Not doing anything can be worse than doing the wrong thing.

What we do today, right now, will have an accumulated effect on all our tomorrows.

The thoughtful little things we do each day have an accumulated effect on all our tomorrows.

The correct word is like any small detail - it enhances life.

For those who protest that Mr. Obama will soon be out of office and irrelevant, read on and learn how his legacy of conscious control over every aspect of our lives will continue to function for generations to come. On

If I had the opportunity, I would make the proposal that no man should be killed except by somebody who knows him well enough for the act to have impact. No death should be like nose blowing. Death is important enough that it should affect the person who causes it.

It is not certain that the standardized habits of modern life lead to the optimum development of human beings. The present ways of living have been adopted because they are easy and pleasant. Indeed, they differ profoundly from those of our ancestors and of the human groups which have so far resisted industrial civilization. We do not know, as yet, whither they are better or worse.

Every flower and insect, every bird, and all the creatures that live upon the land and swim within the rivers and seas, are part of the Tree of Life. You are connected to the whole of life. Whatever happens to the myriad forms of life in the world around you, has a direct affect on you.

As it happens, most studies have found that unexpected rewards are much less destructive than the rewards people are told about beforehand and are deliberately trying to obtain. But

A person is not an originating agent; he is a locus, a point at which many genetic and environmental conditions come together in a joint effect.

The inevitable result of consistently employing power to control [your] kids when they are young is that [you] never learn how to influence." The more you rely on punishment, therefore, "the less real influence you'll have on their lives.

Just because a child's action may have a negative effect on you doesn't mean that was the child's intention.

As Thomas Gordon pointed out, 'The inevitable result of consistently employing power to control [your] kids when they are young is that [you] never learn how to influence.' The more you rely on punishment, therefore, 'the less real influence you'll have on their lives.

Of the Gymnasium class of 1939, half had died. Not one was yet 18.

The only worthwhile achievements of man are those which are socially useful.