Quotes About Impact

You have to pass the test of overlooking insults, ignoring what people say. They wouldn't be talking about you if you weren't making a difference, if you weren't a leader, if you weren't shining brightly.

Your challenge is to live in such a way as to cause others to win.

Words are like seeds. When you speak something out, you give life to what you're saying.

He's given you gifts, creativity, and dreams. He created you to leave your mark on this generation. You're not supposed to live and die and nobody knew you were here. There is something significant about you, something that will cause you to stand out to the point where, years from now, people will look back and say, "You made the world a better place.

Listening to a sermon that does not reform your life will never save your soul.

The technology itself was blameless. The people who used it, sometimes less so.

And if words mean something to you, if an idea moves you, aren't you changed, just a little?

Art, he said, isn't your little paintings and comic books. Art is the meteor that wiped out the dinosaurs.

There was a very real worry that first splitting the atom would destroy the universe. It must have felt like doing god's work.

Yo mama so fat that when she skips a meal the stock market crashes

Ich weiß nicht, ob die verdummte Unterhaltung nach und nach dem kollektiven Intellekt unserer Nation geschadet hat oder ob die geistige Faulheit des Publikums zuerst da war und wir sie nur bedient haben.

To me, John Lennon and Elvis Presley were punks, because they made music that evoked those emotions in people.

By developing products that make a positive difference in people's lives, companies can make the world a safer and better place. Whether

It was a humbling thought, to realize the weight of the world could not break him, but the loss of her could have.

Lasting change is something planted by example and nurtured in each individual heart.

A tudat, hogy szavunk az egész világhoz azonnal eljuthat, olyan ösztönzés, mely öntudatlanul is hatással van a megnyilatkozás módjára, s olyan gazdagság is egyben, melyet csak a legnagyobb szellemóriások viselhetnek el büntetlenül.

He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.

When they added up the figures, John and other scientists found that being disconnected from the people around you had the same effect on your health as being obese—which was, until then, considered the biggest health crisis the developed world faced.

Yet all over the United States—all over the world—police officers were noticing something strange. If you arrest a large number of rapists, the amount of rape goes down. If you arrest a large number of violent racists, the number of violent racist attacks goes down. But if you arrest a large number of drug dealers, drug dealing doesn't go down. Another

We are now exposed to ten times the amount of artificial light that people were exposed to just fifty years ago.

Take care what technologies you use, because your consciousness will, over time, come to be shaped like those technologies.

seeing this as a debate between whether you are pro-tech or anti-tech is bogus and lets the people who stole your attention off the hook. The real debate is: What tech, designed for what purposes, in whose interests?

started to think again about a book I had read ten years before: The Shallows by Nicholas Carr—a landmark work that really alerted people to a crucial aspect of the growing attention crisis.

There's nothing naive about believing that concerted democratic campaigning can change the world. As the anthropologist Margaret Mead said: "It's the only thing that ever has.