Quotes About Impact

It is an old saying, "A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword"; and many men are as much galled with a calumny, a scurrile and bitter jest, a libel, a pasquil, satire, apologue, epigram, stage-plays, or the like, as with any misfortune whatsoever.

[W]hen I hear or read a good line I can hardly wait to tell it to somebody else...

Adding manpower to a late project makes it later.

I'm a programmer. I like programming. And the best way I've found to have a positive impact on code is to write it.

Perhaps you thought that "getting it working" was the first order of business for a professional developer. I hope by now, however, that this book has disabused you of that idea. The functionality that you create today has a good chance of changing in the next release, but the readability of your code will have a profound effect on all the changes that will ever be made.

The Bombing Two Dauntlesses were launched with 12 percent less than maximum fuel, which would have critical impact later in the morning.

Lenin, albeit tardily, realized that Stalin's personality very much mattered.

Little boy crying. "My daddy has been dead for 10 yrs, but he came to town to vote for Lyndon Johnson, and didn't come to see me.

The rattle of plates and cutlery was the sound of empires falling.

Violence is the great attractor of human history, Dr. Iverson. A force almost as irresistible as gravity.

The problem in trying to prove a point or gain a victory through argument is that in the end you can never be certain how it affects the people you're arguing with: They may appear to agree with you politely, but inside they may resent you.

Being attacked is a sign that you are important enough to be a target.

You may have brilliant ideas, the kind that could revolutionize the world, but unless you can express them effectively, they will have no force, no power to enter people's minds in a deep and lasting way.

The men who have changed the universe have never gotten there by working on leaders, but rather by moving the masses. Working on leaders is the method of intrigue and only leads to secondary results. Working on the masses, however, is the stroke of genius that changes the face of the world. NAPOLEON BONAPARTE, 1769-1821

Es mejor ser agredido o difamado que ignorado.

Pense nos idiotas da mesma forma que em crianças ou animais domésticos - não são suficientemente importantes para afectar o sue equilíbrio mental.

Things that happened hundreds of years ago are very much a part of your thinking right now...The past lives in us.

Remember: In the beginning, make yourself not scarce but omnipresent. Only what is seen, appreciated, and loved will be missed in its absence.

Powerful people impress and intimidate by saying less. The more you say, the more likely you are to say something foolish.

lesson: Once the words are out, you cannot take them back. Keep them under control. Be particularly careful with sarcasm: The momentary satisfaction you gain with your biting words will be outweighed by the price you pay.

For every famous martyr there are thousands more who have inspired neither a religion nor a rebellion, so that if martyrdom does sometimes grant a certain power, it does so unpredictably.

Be particularly careful with sarcasm: The momentary satisfaction you gain with your biting words will be outweighed by the price you pay.

It is much more powerful to get others to agree with you through your actions, without saying a word. Demonstrate, do not explicate.

The higher the rank, the greater the effect of the example. The men tend to feel no kind of contact with a commander who, they know, is sitting somewhere in headquarters. What they want is what might be termed a physical contact with him.