Quotes About Impact

old Russian proverb, beloved by Solzhenitsyn: "One word of truth outweighs the whole world.

As long as they talk about you, you're not really dead, as long as they speak your name, you continue. A legend doesn't die, just because the man dies.

I came from a real tough neighborhood. Why, every time I shut the window I hurt somebody's fingers.

Nothing survives that hasn't been lovingly scarred in the brain or dented by the human voice.

La supuesta gran transformación que López Obrador equipara a las ocurridas con la Independencia, la Reforma y la Revolución es en realidad algo así como el parto de los montes, insignificante como cambio pero donde el estridente chillido del ratoncito provoca fuertes efectos desorganizadores.

It should come as no surprise that the real value and benefit of accountability stems from a person's or an organization's ability to influence events and outcomes before they happen.

The most compelling reason to work on your culture? Culture produces results.

Constantinople was the first European city to experience the Black Death:

Every great film should seem new every time you see it.

In thinking about 'depressing movies,' many people don't realize that all bad movies are depressing, and no good movies are.

At the end of the day, some authors will endure and most, including some very good ones, will not. Why do I think reading is important? It is such an effective medium between mind and mind. We think largely in words. A medium made only of words doesn't impose the barrier of any other medium. It is naked and unprotected communication. That's how you get pregnant. May you always be so.

We're in a leadership position in sports. People look up to the National Football League.

Because our attachment to control is either unexamined or addictive, we do not understand that by relinquishing control and providing choice, we increase our influence and impact many times over.

Words can calm people, can make them them fall in love, can whip them up into a frenzy, can turn them into killers.

Ginsberg turned out to be depressingly prescient when, after a heated argument with Norman Podhoretz in 1958, he yelled, 'We'll get you through your children!' For countless American families, that turned out to be only too true.

The Beats inaugurated the long march through the moral territory of American culture. Who knows how many lives were blighted along the way as a result of their proselytizing on behalf of drugs and promiscuous sex?

My father's haunting memories of war had been transformed into my own haunting memories. Such is the power of war and memory.

We have to let everyone hear, the result does not belong to us.

If I do a poetry reading I want people to walk out and say they feel better for having been there - not because you've done a comedy performance but because you're talking about your father dying or having young children, things that touch your soul.

People have told me that other artists have been influenced by my music, and it's flattering. It's a wonderful thing.

Illegal immigration is not just a matter of interest in states along our border with Mexico. It is having an effect on local economies, schools, health care delivery, and public safety all across the country.

Then you must reconcile yourself to the fact that something is always hurt by any change. If you do this, you will not be hurt yourself.

I am interested in language because it wounds or seduces me.

It doesn't take a majority to change a society, or a faith. Only a small minority that yells, threatens, kills, that is willing to do anything to prove to themselves that they're right.