Quotes About Impact

If you can write a song that makes people have emotions and show their feelings, that's a powerful thing and a beautiful thing.

The difference between a beautifully made failure and a beautifully made hit is who you've got playing the leads.

The Bee Gees no longer exist.

I think a great piece, whenever it was written, gets under our skin, makes us feel something. That's what Beethoven was trying to do.

When did we begin to lose faith in our ability to effect change?

Friends have a big influence over how you feel, think, and behave.

People can save the world by the way they think and by the way they behave and what they hold to be important.

There are absolutely ways to manipulate behavior, because our behavior is endlessly being manipulated by the world around us.

You are what you leave behind.

I love watching Marty Scorsese's films, but they always make me feel terrible about being a man.

We are taught these days that being famous is more important than actually doing something.

The country has been shaken up by me. I am just being myself.

The effect of the mass media is not to elicit belief but to maintain the apparatus of addiction.

In terms of my belief that one individual can make a difference - that belief comes from my parents.

America believes what's good for us is good for the world. It's very difficult to understand that that's not necessarily true.

My father believes that we create stars, and then others cast those stars.

There's some bells you can't unring.

Many decisions are made in our lifetime, Most relatively insignificant while others life altering

If you get killed," she argued with a mix of despair and anger, "it's not just you who'll pay the price. I'll have to pay, too, you know, for the rest of my life. Doesn't that matter to you?

When McCandless came into his world, however, the boy undermined the old man's meticulously constructed defenses. Franz relished being with McCandless, but their burgeoning friendship also reminded him how lonely he'd been. The boy unmasked the gaping void in Franz's life even as he helped fill it. When McCandless departed as suddenly as he'd arrived, Franz found himself deeply and unexpectedly hurt.

Whatever motivated him, Lopsang's decision to tow a client didn't seem like a particularly serious mistake at the time. But it would end up being one of many little things—a slow accrual, compounding steadily and imperceptibly toward critical mass.

When you are explaining, you're losing...

T]his is a bad thing that's going on," she told Moore, "and we all need to do something to try to fix it." On

I wonder how many ways there are for a mother to produce that wreckage in her own daughter, and my muscles tense as I think of them.