Quotes About Impact

Sometimes the most profound experiences of our lives start with an act so simple and careless that we hardly think about it - like tossing a small stone that causes a massive avalanche.

All great men are delusional. How else could they be crazy enough to think they could change the world?

Oftentimes it's the smallest, seemingly inconsequential acts that make the biggest differences in our lives.

Pour que le mal triomphe, il suffit que les gens bien ne fassent rien.

That's the way we live our lives. We speed on, happily or not, in the same direction until we collide into something that alters our destination. Sometimes that collision hurts, sometimes it doesn't, but if we're lucky, love is that unbalanced force. Love. There is no greater force in the universe. Now if we'll only learn to stop getting out of its way.

There is nothing as weak as water, but when it attacks and is persistent, nothing can withstand it. -Lao Tse

I have come to believe that the defining moments of most lives are not acts of courage or greatness, rather they are the simple acts: expressions of virtue or vice that are tossed carelessly like seeds from a farmer's hand, leaving their fruits to be revealed at a future date.

Our thoughts are not arrows haphazardly shot out into the cosmos. They are boomerangs.

If guys don't respect themselves, they don't respect other people. That's times and personalities. And all of them are not that way. But it don't take but one or two to screw up the whole crowd.

Ah," he said. "If you'd been born a man, you'd be a force to reshape the world." "Only a woman can do that.

What we can do should never by itself determine what we choose to do, yet this is the way technology tends to work.

Movies are movies, and I don't think any of them are going to hurt the moral fiber of America and all that nonsense.

My passion and great enjoyment for architecture, and the reason the older I get the more I enjoy it, is because I believe we - architects - can effect the quality of life of the people.

Private discrimination also played a role, but it would have been considerably less effective had it not been embraced and reinforced by government.

People never forget things, they just never remembered it in the first place because it was too boring

I'm not interested in creating a book that is read once and then placed on the shelf and forgotten. I am very happy when people have worn out my books, or that they're held together by Scotch tape.

There's no such thing as neutral education. Education either functions as an instrument to bring about conformity or freedom.

There is no such thing as a neutral educational process

Let's admit, without apology, what we do to each other.

This boy, half-destroyed, screaming Drive into that tree, drive off the embankment. Henry, make something happen.

Names of heat and names of light, names of collision in the dark

History throws its shadow over the beginning

I couldn't get the boy to kill me, but I wore his jacket for the longest time. a stone in the hand means somebody's angry, the stone inside you still hasn't hit bottom.

If we can teach a teacher we can reach more people.