Quotes About Impact

American research and resources have literally changed the face of humanity, by tackling deadly and once-deadly diseases.

I wouldn't say I invented tacky, but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity.

People hate negative tactics, but the fact is, as the 3 A.M. ad demonstrates, they can be very effective.

I think the Iraq War is not particularly tailored to American interests.

I would love to be one of the few artists that hits a point of success and can go back into the studio and make another album that matters and relates to people and not go back in and be super tainted by this whole thing.

Don't take social media seriously. Don't buy into the hype.

Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you're flying high at first, but it won't take long before you feel the impact.

A poet's work is to name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.

Sometimes in life, you're not always given a second chance, but if you do, take advantage of it, and go out with a bang!

We have to take advantage of the platform we have while we have it.

It's for us to take care of the air we breathe and the water we drink. And I do believe we have an impact on that, and we do have the ability to change it if we make the decision to.

Polite and velvety leaders, who take care to avoid bruising others, are generally not as effective at forcing change.

I don't take care of my voice at all, which is one reason that I sound as bad as I do.

I think we really feel like Crowdrise could be something that, 20 years from now, people take for granted because that's just how you do it, like if you're going to raise money for something, that's how you do it.

Don't take for granted how much of an impact making small changes can have.

I had never seen an ocean before I came to Mumbai, something that now we take for granted. But the first time I stood in front of the ocean, it affected me for a week. I had never seen something as enormous. It consumed me completely.

No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.

Rock and roll has probably given more than it's taken.

If somebody comes up and says something good about you, that is never taken as an adhesive thing like something negative about you.

It is the role of good journalism to take on powerful abusers, and when powerful abusers are taken on, there's always a bad reaction. So we see that controversy, and we believe that is a good thing to engage in.

Households, cities, countries, and nations have enjoyed great happiness when a single individual has taken heed of the Good and Beautiful. Such people not only liberate themselves; they fill those they meet with a free mind.

In a little over six minutes, 17 of our friends were taken from us. Fifteen were injured. And everyone - absolutely everyone - in the Douglas Community was forever altered.

It is a hugely embarrassing situation to find myself in, I'm a professional driver and to be caught speeding and to have my licence taken away for speeding, it would have an effect on my reputation.

I want to see one of my products being taken by people across the world. I want to see them improving and leading a better life. It's like playing God.