Quotes About Impact

Knowledge—by itself—is an intervention. Our presence changes the way the natives see the world. According to her, there is no way to study these people without causing change." "The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle,

No life should pass unnoticed.

she crashed to the sidewalk.

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've become yourself.

What you don't do can be a destructive force.

Mozart, who was buried in a pauper's grave, was one of the greatest successes we know of, a man who in his early thirties had poured out his inexhaustible gift of music, leaving the world richer because he had passed that way. To leave the world richer—that is the ultimate success.

Success must include two things: the development of an individual to his utmost potentiality and a contribution of some kind to one's world.

To leave the world richer—that is the ultimate success.

unless time is good for something it is good for nothing.

Nothing we learn in this world is ever wasted and I have come to the conclusion that practically nothing we do ever stands by itself. If it is good, it will serve some good purpose in the futue. If it is evil, it may haunt us and handicap our efforts in unimagined ways.

Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart

Just as there are no little people or unimportant lives, there is no insignificant work.

As for infidelities, he said, if you don't find out about them at the right moment they're of no use: when you're in love you forgive everything. For infidelities to have their real impact some lovelessness has to develop first. And he went on like that, piling up painful remarks about the blindness of people in love.

Although she was fragile in appearance, every prohibition lost substance in her presence.

At the fourth flight Lila did something unexpected. She stopped to wait for me, and when I reached her she gave me her hand. This gesture changed everything between us forever.

I felt that there was no irony, it was a real compliment. Then she added with sudden harshness: "I don't want to read anything else that you write." "Why?" She thought about it. "Because it hurts me," and she struck her forehead with her hand and burst out laughing.

I'm never going to fall in love with anyone and I will never ever ever write a poem.' 'I don't believe it.' 'It's true.' 'But people will fall in love with you.' 'Worse for them.

What a complex foamy mixture a couple is. Even if the relationship shatters and ends, it continues to act in secret pathways, it doesn't die, it doesn't want to die.

Ha parlato bene, ma senza pensare alle conseguenze". "Si parla bene proprio quando non si pensa alle conseguenze".

I didn't intend to say something unkind. I meant only that you are good at making yourself liked. The difference between you and me, always, has been that people are afraid of me and not of you.

It was predictable, of course, but now that a date had been fixed, March 12th, it was as if I had been strolling absentmindedly and banged into a door.

When she gave me back the notebook, she said, 'You're very clever, of course they always give you ten.' I felt that there was no irony, it was a real compliment. Then she added with sudden harshness: 'I don't want to read anything else that you write.' 'Why?' She thought about it. 'Because it hurts me,' and she struck her forehead with her hand and burst out laughing.

I]t was as if I had been strolling absentmindedly and banged into a door.