Quotes About Impact

Children growing up today are bombarded from a very early age with graphic messages about sex and sexiness in the media and popular culture.

Sadly, today, instead of having the positive experiences they need for healthy development, many children are having experiences that undermine it. Today's cultural environment bombards children with inappropriate and harmful messages. As children struggle to understand what they see and hear, they learn lessons that can frighten and confuse them.

I don't want to be known for my face. I want to be known for my work.

Another study of adults found the same thing: the more people used Facebook, the lower their mental health and life satisfaction at the next assessment.

Fewer teens having sex is one of the reasons behind what many see as one of the most positive youth trends in recent years: the teen birthrate hit an all-time low in 2015, cut by more than half since its modern peak in the early 1990s.

The trends that have shaped iGen are the usual mix of good and bad, with a healthy amount of "it depends" thrown in.

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iGen'ers are addicted to their phones, and they know it. Many also know it's not entirely a good thing. It's clear that most teens (and adults) would be better off if they spent less time with screens. "Social media is destroying our lives," one teen told Nancy Jo Sales in her book American Girls. "So why don't you go off it?" Sales asked. "Because then we would have no life," the girl said.

Along with the direct impacts of technology, individualism and a slower life trajectory are the key trends that define the generations of the 20th and 21st centuries.

They are the last American generation to remember the years of the Great Depression, and the last to know a time before the end of World War II. Unlike the Greatest generation just before them, who were adults at the time, Silents experienced these events as children and adolescents. Nearly all Silents were born too late to serve in World War II, creating a dividing line in generational experience.

I first decided to become an actor at school. A teacher gave us a play to do and that had a major impact. At first, I wanted to work in the theatre, but there was something about the ambience of film, especially American films, that always attracted me.

We do not exist through ourselves alone but through the environment that shaped us.

One kills a man, one is an assassin one kills millions, one is a conqueror one kills everybody, one is a god.

Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said.

Can you imagine 4,000 years passing, and you're not even a memory? Think about it, friends. It's not just a possibility. It's a certainty.

El enfoque económico es el del «individualismo metodológico», según el cual los fenómenos colectivos son resultado de comportamientos individuales y, a su vez, afectan a estos últimos.

we are all aware of the consequences of climate change.

Así, desde septiembre de 2001, en Estados Unidos ha habido 200.000 homicidios, de los que únicamente 50 fueron perpetrados por terroristas islámicos estadounidenses[7]; lo que no impide que los actos terroristas se graben en nuestra mente.

El sesgo de la víctima identificable, por humano que sea, afecta a las políticas públicas; como dice el aforismo (con frecuencia atribuido a Stalin, pero de origen dudoso), «la muerte de un hombre es una tragedia; la de un millón de hombres, una estadística».

Many people are good at talking about what they are doing, but in fact do little. Others do a lot but don't talk about it; they are the ones who make a community live.

The news took a moment to sink in, probably because there was no bottom for it to alight upon.

When those who lived through the epidemic tried to describe it, they talked about the sudden eerie quiet.

I want to put strongly and completely all that is necessary, for things weakly said might as well not be said at all.

so slow is moral progress. True, we have the bicycle, the motor-car, the dirigible airship and other marvellous means of breaking our bones; but our morality is not one rung the higher for it all. One would even say that, the farther we proceed in our conquest of matter, the more our morality recedes. The most advanced of our inventions consists in bringing men down with grapeshot and explosives with the swiftness of the reaper mowing the corn.