Quotes About Impact

A buckled car protruded from the window of one of the upper classrooms.

There was no advance warning, no marginal area of incremental damage. The wave had come in with full force, spent itself and stopped at a point as clearly defined as the reach of a high tide. Above it, nothing had been touched; below it, everything was changed.

Jesus quickly decided, as these men all decide, that the power must be used for the benefit of the race.

Once you get into this great stream of history, you can't get out.

There are some people, you know, they think the way to be a big man is to shout and stomp and raise hell-and then nothing ever really happens. I'm not like that ... I never shoot blanks.

If your customer willingly and knowingly doesn't care about certain important things that your customer's customer cares about—as happens from time to time—consider stepping away from the project.

Although it's difficult to measure an architect's impact on a project, if developers consistently ignore their guidance and management doesn't buy-in to their recommendations, the "rightness" of their guidance will do little to advance their career. Experienced architects understand that they need to "sell" their ideas and need to communicate effectively in order to do that.

A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue.

The President can bomb anybody he likes.

Writing seems like the only job where what you think and feel really matters.

By the time Rockefeller left office in 1973, SUNY was the world's largest university system, with a quarter million students attending classes on sixty-four campuses. For

It seems like the value you attribute to something, more than its inherent value, influences your expectations, and your expectations, to a great extent, influence the life you live.

Harboring an emotion as powerful as gratitude has power of its own.

Small kindnesses often, unintentionally, produce the biggest payoffs.

There are people who come into our lives as welcome as a cool breeze in summer- and last about as long.

No,' he said, 'you only have to live long enough to inspire others to do great things.

We can deny reality, but we can't deny the consequences of denying reality.

When we hate someone we make them more powerfull than they are.

The sound of a kiss is not as strong as that of a cannon, but its echo endures much longer.

Under the right circumstances, a tiny spark can grow into an inferno that can overcome an entire city. So can an idea.

Trauma has a way of indelibly linking the incidentals to the profound.

Some people use the Bible as medicine. Others use it as poison." - Charles James

remember that death is the punctuation at the end of the sentence. It's up to us to decide what kind of punctuation it will be—a period or an exclamation point.

I have found that the most significant experiences of our lives rarely come when we're expecting them and oftentimes when we're not even paying attention.