Quotes About Impact

By words one of us can give another the greatest happiness or bring about utter despair; by words the teacher imparts his knowledge to the student; by words the orator sweeps his audience with him and determines its judgments and decisions. Words call forth emotions and are universally the means by which we influence our fellow-creatures.

Indeed, why even study history? The brief response is because our understandings of the past—who we are, where we came from, why we are here—inform our definitions of who we are in the present and have real implications and applicability for actions taken by us or in our name to shape the future.

An Apple executive told The New York Times, "We don't have an obligation to solve America's problems. Our only obligation is making the best product possible.

Social work, teaching, nursing, and caring for the elderly or for children are among the lowest-paid professions, yet evidence suggests that talented and dedicated people in these positions generate societal benefits far out of proportion to their pay. One such study found that good teachers increase the average present value of their students' lifetime income by $250,000 per classroom

Extending the Bush tax cuts will add $1.2 trillion to the nation's budget deficit in just two years.

the sheer convenience of online political activism reduces its political potency.

Leave this world a little better than you found it.

Streets flooded. Please advise.

When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching.

Sir Thomas More: Why not be a teacher? You'd be a fine teacher; perhaps a great one. Richard Rich: If I was, who would know it? Sir Thomas More: You; your pupils; your friends; God. Not a bad public, that.

There is no effect more disproportionate to its cause than the happiness bestowed by a small compliment.

What you discover about people you try not to offend is that you can offend them without trying.

A mom reads you like a book, and wherever she goes, people read you like a glowing book review.

In this, the late afternoon of my life, I wonder: am I casting a longer shadow or is my shadow casting a shorter me?

See yourself always as cause, and perhaps a better world will be found among your effects.

More good has been accomplished by simple people seeking their own honest ends than by all the philanthropists in history.

In cinema, words are a virus.

It is in its pure form that an art hits hard.

One recognizes the true by its efficacy, by its power.

When you die, your culture takes you in, and then, if you've given enough, your place is near the centre.

Planetologist call it the conundrum of unforeseen ecological consequence. I call it the whack-a-mole rule of human meddling. She clasped both hands like a child hammering. WHACK! We change something here. Oops, that makes another problem pop up there where we didn't expect it. WHACK! So, we whack that mole. Oops! We're so smart that we're a menace.

Hinc quam sic calamus saevior ense, patet. The pen worse than the sword.

Hence it is clear how much more cruel the pen is than the sword.

Hence it is clear how much more cruel the pen is than the sword. (Hinc Gham Sit Calmus Saevior Ense Patet)