Quotes About Impact

When you take a pound-for-pound style fight in other weight classes or with guys who have proven themselves against a lot of guys, it opens eyes and gets people talking.

For a long time, I operated under the Chinese proverb that there are four kinds of leaders: those who you laugh at, those who you hate, those who you love and those who you don't even know that they're leaders.

It just proves good movies don't need 100 million dollars to be good.

They say the good you do lives after you. Bob is one of those who proves that.

What is important to me is that when I write something, people listen to me. I provide my wisdom to people, whether they agree or not.

Hip-hop is all about impact, baby. You can sell records, you can be two-times platinum, you can be gold... but if you lame, you lame, man. We try to provide the exact opposite of that. It's style, individuality, confidence. We exude that.

Let no one think me a weak one, feeble-spirited, A stay-at-home, but rather just the opposite, One who can hurt my enemies and help my friends; For the lives of such persons are most remembered.

We are women, unable to perform noble deeds, but most skilful architects of every sort of harm.

But wonderful people nearly always combine their wonderfulness with other characteristic that can drive on utterly crazy

They kill hundreds of people, those pilots. I would have loved to have flown the plane that dropped the bomb on Japan. A couple of dudes killed hundreds of thousands. That f****** rules! Yeah!

stop fixing your bodies and start fixing the world!

He was the kind of man who lit the world on fire and then fanned the flames so it burned hotter.

You can't ever tell what's going to hurt people.

Evelyn Waugh: How do you get your main pleasure in life, Sir William? Sir William Beveridge: I get mine trying to leave the world a better place than I found it. Waugh: I get mine spreading alarm and despondency and I get more satisfaction than you do.

Could anything be more improbable than that a religion following a man born of an unwed mother among a widely despised people in an out-of-the-way part of the world—a man then crucified by the ruling authorities on a charge of treason—should become the official religion of the Roman world, the formative influence on Western civilization, and a significant influence in other parts of the world?

Observability is the degree to which the results of an innovation are visible to others.

If there is one leader to whom most Chinese people express gratitude for improvements in their daily lives, it is Deng Xiaoping. Did any other leader in the twentieth century do more to improve the lives of so many? Did any other twentieth-century leader have such a large and lasting influence on world history?

You'll understand why storms are named after people.

Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people's lives.

He was so terrible that he was no longer terrible, only dehumanized.

It isn't given to us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world. They will not be cured by our most efficacious drugs or slain with our sharpest swords.

The world only exists in your eyes-- your conception of it. You can make it as big or as small as you want to. And you're trying to be a little puny individual. By God, if I ever cracked, I'd try to make the world crack with me.

The words seemed to bite physically into Gatsby.

We ruined ourselves-I have never honestly thought that we ruined each other.