Quotes About Impact

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Bright is the ring of wordsWhen the right man rings them.

your old-fashioned tirade—loving, rapid, merciless—breaks like the Atlantic Ocean on my head.

on Boylston Street, a commercial photographshows Hiroshima boiling.

Well, I've ruffled a few feathers at all the institutions I've led. But I think that's part of leadership.

We can put it in its proper perspective by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had been directed at printing only comic books.

To make pictures big is to make them more powerful.

If there was no God to hear it, what difference did it make? But if there was . . .

The natural world was a tightly integrated web, and every time humans messed with it, there were as many unintended consequences as there were intentional. But that was a lesson nobody ever seemed to learn. Maybe

The natural world was a tightly integrated web, and every time humans messed with it, there were as many unintended consequences as there were intentional. But that was a lesson nobody ever seemed to learn.

Somebody blasted a

And his prospects … they were altered in the Crimea. Everyone who went there was changed by it, everyone who survived was damaged. It was impossible not to be." She brushed the mist from her hair with the back of one hand. "You cannot bathe in blood every night," she said, "and emerge the next morning unstained." Michael

There would be no Lenin without Rasputin.

Can I persuade you that if you let a driver into your lane, or thank a sales clerk, or smile at someone in a hallway, you can change his or her life? Of course not—but if you don't go through the day with the assumption that small moments and small gestures can touch people's lives, what is the alternative belief?

consider how the world might be different if more of us conducted our social, business, and romantic lives with the belief that small steps matter, that even the shortest contact with another person is inherently important.

There were no more heroes. Kennedy was dead, shot by an assassin in Dallas. Batman and Robin were dead... Superman was missing...

Storytelling is the most powerful way to put ideas into the world today.

The mark of a master is to select only a few moments but give us a lifetime.

You might forget the day you saw a dead body in the street, but the death of Hamlet haunts you forever.

When talented people write well, it is generally for this reason: They're moved by a desire to touch the audience.

Si se reduce el número de espectadores, también se debe reducir el presupuesto. Ésa es la ley.

When talented people write badly, it's generally for one of two reasons: Either they're blinded by an idea they feel compelled to prove of they're driven by an emotion they must express. When talented people write well, it is generally for this reason: They're moved by a desire to touch the audience.

Good story' means something worth telling that the world wants to hear. Finding this is your lonely task...But the love of a good story, of terrific characters and a world driven by your passion, courage, and creative gifts is still not enough. Your goal must be a good story well told.

Given the choice between trivial material brilliantly told versus profound material badly told, an audience will always choose the trivial told brilliantly.