Quotes About Impact

You can never know about about your own destiny: are the people you meet there to play a part on your oun destiny, or do you exist just to play a role in theirs?

I changed the world; the world changed me. Everything you do comes back to you. When you affect a situation, you are also affected.

I change the world, the world changes me.

Things aren't good or bad in and of themselves. It's what we do with them that makes them so.

Stories were power. And whoever controlled the story controlled everything. A story could bring people together, or it could tear them apart. It could spread like a sickness, infecting people. It could lead them into battle or shake them into seeing what they had refused to see before.

You must be the change you want to see in the world.

Whoever saves a life, it is as if he has saved an entire world.

What was the point of living so quietly you made no noise at all?

inside everyone was the chance to change the world. It sat like a seed eager to grow into greatness.

Small acts of resistance matter!

I change the world and the world changes me

But what was the point of living so quietly... you made no noise at all

Write like it matters, and it will.

Virtual reality is going to revolutionize the world—it's not a question of if, but when.

This was the innovating constitutional heaven brought into being by Spanish American independence struggles; and, in some regions, the impact was dramatic and long-lasting. By the mid nineteenth century, the political life of large stretches of South America was more inclusive in terms of social class and race – though not gender – than in the United States or much of Europe.

this single memory, coupled with the others of Mother masturbating on me early in the mornings, or in front of me when I was small, was ample.

He'd never thought he would love any woman, least of all an Anglo, but that was before this slight, delicate creature had bulldozed her way into his life and completely changed it.

The way we speak and the words we use have great power to discourage or to inspire.

The strongest catalysts are specific actions.

I'd argue that everybody wants to do something that matters

I'm a bastard. I have absolutely no clue why people can ever think otherwise. Yet they do. People think I'm a nice guy, and the fact is that I'm a scheming, conniving bastard who doesn't care for any hurt feelings or lost hours of work if it just results in what I consider to be a better system. And I'm not just saying that. I'm really not a very nice person. I can say 'I don't care' with a straight face, and really mean it.

La UANL es la verga

The city of Nîmes itself was short of everything; it was swamped with refugees from Holland, Belgium, and northern France. It had tripled in population.

What a useless life I had led. Often enough in hours of normal health I had debated the value of writing books. What did one accomplish by writing, what influence did one exert, what improvements did one effect?