Quotes About Impact

We shape our buildings and they shape us.

You will make all kinds of mistakes but as long as you are generous and true and fierce you cannot hurt the world, or even seriously distress her.

Strange sometimes how easy bitter words came, how hard the kind ones.

There were a million British casualties in the first three months of the war.)

by the end of the war American warplanes were dropping seventeen hundred tons of bombs a day on Japanese cities.

Stalin's opinion on the subject boiled down to this: "Education is a dangerous weapon, whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands, and at whom it is aimed.

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

When you choose a behavior , you choose the consequences .

Some people make your life better by walking into it while other people make your life better by simply walking out of it.

...if anything matters then everything matters. Because you are important, everything you do is important. Every time you forgive, the universe changes; every time you reach out and touch a heart or a life, the world changes; with every kindness and service, seen or unseen, my purposes are accomplished and nothing will be the same again.

The man dies in all those that keep silent.

A man dies ... only a few circles in the water prove that he was ever there. And even they quickly disappear. And when they're gone, he's forgotten, without a trace, as if he'd never even existed. And that's all.

Electronicization will do to the middle class what mechanization has done to the working class, and it will do it much faster

Don't forget to swing hard, in case you hit the ball.

It is like writing history with lightning. And my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.

You deal in the raw material of opinion, and, if my convictions have any validity, opinion ultimately governs the world.

No thoughtful man ever came to the end of his life, and had time and a little space of calm from which to look back upon it, who did not know and acknowledge that it was what he had done unselfishly and for others, and nothing else, that satisfied him in the retrospect, and made him feel that he had played the man.

You are not here merely to making a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement.

Movies are] like writing history with lightning.

You are here to enrich the world and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.

If my films make one more person miserable, I'll feel I have done my job.

Small actions can cause great harm, especially when those actions become habits. So just a little tiny change in the right place at the right time, everything will be much better.

What made me happiest was using what I'd learned to do something of value to society.

Anything that survives the artist's death is not life but belated drama.