Quotes About Impact

This is the true joy in life: being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap, being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish, little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. —GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

The right dose of expectations can be as powerful as one of the strongest painkillers.

Studies of teenage behavior shows that the terrible teens is not a biological necessity, as a number of cultures don't experience this phenomenon. A study of teenagers in Western cultures found that these teenagers have fewer choices than a felon in prison. Food for thought. Finding a way to make a choice, however small, seems to have a measurable impact on the brain, shifting you from an away response to a toward response.

As children we recognized that we belonged to an unusual, even exceptional, family, but the effect was different on each of us.

No one responds or even looks at him. It's as if he didn't say it. If an accountant says words in a kitchen and no one listens, did he make a sound?

We leave a mark wherever we go, whatever we do, and whatever we say.

It's a fact of life: every move we make, every word we utter, has an effect on the world. Sometimes it's minor, sometimes it's of great significance.

Americans are accustomed to seeing the subversive impact of popular music. Blues, jazz, rock, punk, rap, and so on—popular music has been like the prow of an icebreaker, bursting through the frozen sea of convention.

We have to ask ourselves one single question, according to Koch: "What will give us better result for less energy?" or, in a more common phrase: "How do we get the most bang for our buck?" If

If the 80/20 principle says that 80% of your results come from 20% of your efforts,

To be perfectly honest, I feel I have a duty to use my celebrity status in a positive way.

I haven't the slightest idea how to change people, but still I keep a long list of prospective candidates just in case I should ever figure it out.

After a few months in my parents' basement, I took an apartment near the state university, where I discovered both crystal methamphetamine and conceptual art. Either one of these things are dangerous, but in combination they have the potential to destroy entire civilizations.

I'm the most important person in the lives of almost everyone I know and a good number of the people I've never even met.

Language is power. Words shape the way we interact with the world.

It's an incontrovertible fact that many--more than half of all children--will try [drugs]. For some of those, drugs will have no major negative impact on their lives. For others, however, the outcome will be catastrophic.

Citing the University of Pittsburgh study, the New York Times noted, "The average adolescent is exposed to approximately 84 references to illicit substance use per day and 591 references per week, or 30,732 references per year. . . . Studies have long shown that media messages have a pronounced impact on childhood risk behaviors." A study of sixteen thousand teenagers in six European countries found that the more drinking kids saw in movies, the more likely they were to binge drink.

On average, a teenager is exposed to approximately eighty-four references to drug use every day and almost six hundred references every week—that's more than thirty thousand a year.

Make no mistake, to a significant degree we are all victims of religion because we all have fewer rights because of it.

According to Professor Ryan Cragun, churches cost America about $71 billion per year in nonprofit property-tax exemptions alone. That's enough for twenty-eight missions to Mars per year,10 or 1.5 million teachers11 or 1.4 million police officers12 per year.

Murder often doesn't unsettle a man. In Baltimore, it usually doesn't even ruin his day.

If a drug dealer falls in West Baltimore and no one is there to hear him, does he make a sound?

You against the world … Bet on the World. The world is never going to change for you. Unless you are a world-historic figure. Well, are you?

propel them backward, not forward, to reflect on what their lives have meant—to themselves, their loved ones, and the world at large.