Quotes About Impact

As the Reverend Robert Barnwell emphasized in an address to the ladies of Charleston, "WITHOUT YOU, THIS WAR COULD NOT HAVE BEEN CARRIED ON, FOR THE GOVERNMENT WAS NOT PREPARED TO MEET ALL THAT WAS THROWN UPON IT.

But colonization had a nasty tendency to work its way into the DNA, the beliefs and philosophies and the very ways of life of the people being colonized.

I'm not sure Dave realized in that split-second decision what a profound message he was sending to his "father," Mr. Yaka, and the long-term impact it would have on them and their ministry—even the continent!

And, that's what I truly believe that we're doing when we're advancing scientific knowledge is we're someday making the world better. Not only for our children, but for all people after that.

Lives are like novels. Plot, character, and tone are all part of the devices we employ: Aim to be a contributor and not a detractor to the story.

In other words, our perceptions of who influences us may say more about social and hierarchical relations than influence per se.

But rather than producing doubt, the absence of "counterfactual" versions of history tends to have the opposite effect—namely that we tend to perceive what actually happened as having been inevitable.

So I started chanting when I was nineteen, which was about twelve years ago, and it really had a huge impact on my outlook, happiness, and general creativity.

Lying in a featherbed will bring you no fame, nor staying beneath the quilt, and he who uses up his life without achieving fame leaves no more vestige of himself on Earth than smoke in the air or foam upon the water.

Michael Berry wrote a paper called Regular and Irregular Motion. He determined the predictability of the path of a struck billiards ball. The path after the first impact is easy to determine with basic geometry. The second path is a bit harder, but still relatively easy. By the 9th impact Berry determined that the gravitational pull of a person standing next to the table had enough of an influence on the ball path that it was necessary to be included in the calculations.

I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?

Behavior, in turn, seldom stands neutral.

Things don't have feelings. Events don't. Places don't. But people do. And things and events and places can create feelings in people . . . trigger an amazing range of individual reactions.

A boo is a lot louder than a cheer.

An irrelevance, and your life's altered.

I can't think of anything better to do with a life than to wear it out in efforts to be useful to the world.

When a great life sets it leaves an afterglow on the sky far into the night.

Make your life about something bigger than your life.

The purpose of life is to matter and be ever mindful of the opportunities that we can both individually and collectively provide for others.

Action is the difference-make r. Remember that. If you're ready to take a big step forward, seek an open door as if your life depended on it. When you find it, go in bold and make it count.

Maybe you simply criticized someone you hardly knew. You ruined part of their life. For them, part of your life, too.

It is better to have a meaningful life and make a difference than to merely have a long life.

A useless life is an early death. [Ger., Ein unnutz Leben ist ein fruher Tod.]

Environmental pollution is a blight on people's quality of life and a trouble that weighs on their hearts.