Quotes About Impact

If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito"—Dalai Lama.)

I would rather you burned this book than used the reading of it as an excuse to not make some fresh trouble today

I really believe that what happens one day affects the next, and I think that came from that experience of learning that if I told the score inning by inning, play by play, it built up to its natural climax.

Once a president gets to the White House, the only audience that is left that really matters is history.

You cannot escape the fact that women mould your first five years, whether you like it or not. And I can't say I do like it very much.

I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War I.

September 11 was terrible but, if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Americans wasn't that terrible.

This was love, and I was astonished by its power.

Words matter . . . They really do.

I declare! Sometimes it seems to me that every time a new piece of machinery comes into the door some of our wits fly out the window!

People say, what is the sense of our small effort? They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time. A pebble cast into a pond causes ripples that spread in all directions. Each one of our thoughts, words and deeds is like that. No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There is too much work to do.

At the same time, he was aware that literature was more than sociological data: it changes, not just reflects, expectations and experiences.

I did not know that when you drop a stone of a stupid choice in the pool of your life, it can cause a tidal wave to surge outwards, destroying everyone and everything in its path.

Some people's blameless lives are to blame for a good deal.

Doesn't it seem hard, Oliver, that as children, when we'll take any mould, we should be formed for the rest of our lives by small things that don't really matter in themselves at all? My grievance is that the Lockwoods were silly, selfish, snobbish, creatures with no single saving grace—except, perhaps, Clare—and yet I minded about them.

There is magic in motion. There is energy in change. There is something in all of us to make a difference in anyway, everyday.

A bland smile is like a green light at an intersection, it feels good when you get one, but you forget it the moment you're past it.

I told my father to stop smoking around the age of two or three years old and he stopped smoking. So the relationship between the kid and the parent is very powerful, and if you give the kid the right information, it can be very useful to the family.

Thinking good thoughts is not enough, doing good deeds is not enough, seeing others follow your good examples is enough.

For historical currents do not irresistibly propel themselves and everyone in their path. No matter what their broader structural or ideological roots, they both carry along and are carried along by people, who are not merely passengers of history, but pilots as well.

I don't even understand the connection with 'died for your sins'. He died for your sin, well, how does one affect the other? 'I hit myself in the foot with a shovel for your mortgage'...

There will come a day," Jared mused, "when people will miss him greatly. He goes for the big thing and he gets it done. Nobody can keep up with the spirit in which he leads.

You can't know what difference you'll make, but you are part of something. I think so. We all have things we're meant to do. People we're meant to care about. We're all meant to matter.

Everyone playing in the major leagues today owes a debt of gratitude to Mark Fidrych. He brought baseball back to the people. He made it popular again. He helped save the game." - Willie Horton