Quotes About Impact

If a film does not do well, there is a certain period when you do feel low. It affects you because you put in a lot of effort.

In terms of the idea of long-term occupation - I have been reading a little bit more about this period - and you can see in that occupation are many lessons for the current occupation of Iraq. So we have these connections that go way back that people aren't aware of.

The greatest events of history are those which affect the greatest number for the longest periods.

It can have an enormous effect because big budget movies can have big budget perks, and small budget movies have no perks, but what is the driving force, of course, is the script, and your part in it.

Act so that the effects of your actions are compatible with the permanence of genuine human life.

I don't believe you ever get closure on anything. Things leave a permanent mark on you.

The influence of one's parents is powerful and permanent.

I've had hundreds and hundreds of concussions, but I don't think that I have any permanent damage. A lot of my peers do.

The human juggernaut is permanently eroding Earth's ancient biosphere.

Permit me to be immodest, but I did something for this country.

In medicine as well as politics, one cannot permit the cure to be worse than the disease.

Being a justice. If you love law the way I do... you're given the job of a lifetime... you're permitted to address the most important legal questions of the country, and sometimes the world. And in doing so, you make a difference in people's lives.

Digital technology can be a great resource, but it can also be a pernicious one, so it's how we, as a society, really study the cognitive impact of that and use evidence-based research to go after the technology designers to do a better job of dealing with the problems of memory and attention we are seeing.

If they exert it not for good, they will for evil; if they advance not knowledge, they will perpetuate ignorance.

Bureaucracies tend to perpetuate themselves, whether they are multinational corporations or large government institutions such as Medicare, often at the expense of those that they are supposed to serve.

I would like to share something that is being done extremely well by Bill Gates through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The foundation is only going to address areas which are seen by Bill or Melinda as ills of the world. The foundation has no perpetuity.

If, God forbid, a war with Iran breaks out, it will be a nightmare. And we will all be in it, including the Persian Gulf countries and Saudi Arabia. No one will remain unscathed.

A boo is a lot louder than a cheer. If you have 10 people cheering and one person booing, all you hear is the booing.

No one person can change the world, but one and one and one add up.

Never doubt that one person can make a difference.

I think what's always been interesting to me than the science and the criminality with this job is what happens to your persona, your disposition, after day in and day out dealing with life and death.

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Wars usually have the effect of speeding up the process of history.

Words have a longer life than deeds.