Quotes About Impact

I hate it when something I've had published "inspires" some nut to imitate what I've written, or some teacher gets fired for having her students read one of my stories or novels.

If we can teach a teacher we can reach more people.

You can be in your room and lead people. Just develop your potentials and publicize them and you will see people looking for your product. That is influence

Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.

Science is but a perversion of itself unless it has as its ultimate goal the betterment of humanity.

Technology is not neutral. We're inside of what we make, and it's inside of us. We're living in a world of connections — and it matters which ones get made and unmade.

Technology doesn't just do things for us. It does things to us, changing not just what we do but who we are.

All technology should be assumed guilty until proven innocent

The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.

A picture is worth a thousand words. An interface is worth a thousand pictures.

Was it possible that some men possessed so great a force of character that they could stamp themselves upon their words such that no matter where they were read, or when, or in what language, their own distinctive tones would always be heard?

Love is a kind of infection, possessing then releasing you.

Moreover, what purpose, if any, is served by your stories? Whom do they benefit?

A famous artist is approached by a student. You don't remember me, the student says correctly, but years ago you said something that changed my life. You said, 'Photography is death.' After that, says the student, I threw out my camera. I began again. I want to thank you for changing my life. Leave me alone, says the artist. Photography is life.

I'm just headin' off the coast aimlessly. I haven't had much impact. Nothing but depression. Tropical, but nonetheless, depression. Headin' out to sea.

I told my old friend Julia that Tropical Storm Julia had just slammed into the Georgia coast. She said, "We'll have to watch me closely as I seem to be gathering strength.

The striking part of his communication is what he doesn't say, when saying something would make a difference.

If depression is darkness, then the child of depression grows up living in the shadow of that darkness. What we inherit - indiscriminate.

Words and magic are two powerful forces that can change the world.

Choices are powerful things. In fact, they're more powerful than most things.

You can't have intentions without consequences. The question is, who pays for the consequences? Saving fish from drowning. Same thing. Who's saved? Who's not?

My mother knows how to hit a nerve. And the pain I feel is worse than any other kind of misery. Because what she does always comes as a shock, exactly like an electric jolt, that grounds itself perfectly in my memory.

Later they will remember those moments with you. But they are not memories of you, but the feeling they were immortal because you made them gods.

My mother knows how to hit a nerve. And the pain I feel is worse than any other kind of misery. Because what she does always comes as a shock, exactly like an electric jolt, that grounds itself permanently in my memory. I still remember the first time I felt it.