Quotes About Impact

I think the quality of something like the Beveridge, for instance, will have a life of its own.

The stars were out in full, the crickets a little quieter. He had enjoyed talking to Allie and wondered what she'd thought about his life, hoping it would somehow make a difference, if it could.

Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've watched him apply the proverb to his own life, it has no power to sway you.

Everything we do impacts someone else's life.

Spina bifida affects every single aspect of your life, from your child's self-esteem to your ability to sleep at night.

I live my life and I do what I do, and sometimes you forget that people are watching you.

The biggest shock of your life is when you first make a record and go to a show and then people start singing the words. Because it occurs to you that they've listened to it!

I'm interested in the way major events don't necessarily announce themselves as major events. They're often little things - the drip, drip of life that changes people or affects people.

What I learned as a young child continues to have a tremendous impact on my life today.

It still frightens me a little bit to think that so much of my life was totally devoted to Star Trek and almost nothing else.

Some people, when they die, leave so much life behind that we wonder how they did it.

The simple combination of letters and sounds you select as a name for your baby can result in a life of carefree coolness or decades of expensive therapy. Hi, I'm Jake versus Hi, I'm... Tapioca

A foreign swear-word is practically inoffensive except to the person who has learnt it early in life and knows its social limits.

When you choose your attitude toward life, you can affect reality by making it better for you

Going to a charity tea party and thinking that you've done your bit toward putting an end to social inequity in the world.

I was about 12 when I heard my first Lenny Bruce record. He was already dead. But it changed my life and really did change the world.

For most of my life, I have wanted broad impact but now, at 72, I'm not so sure that's always my first priority.

Those who help a child help humanity with an immediateness which no other help given to human creature in any other stage of human life can possibly give again.

When you write for children and young adults, you have much more affect and influence on them than when you write for adults. The books that get us through our childhood stay with us for life.

The most powerful lessons occur where studies intersect with real life.

I'll never know what my life would have been like if they hadn't made Lawrence of Arabia. What would I be? I would maybe have 10 children, a very fat wife. I would be very fat myself. I don't know.

The damage that we do in the service of whatever motivates us in life has a direct effect, mostly on our kids.

Poke gave him life. Ender gave it meaning.

Every time I write a book, I've probably taken five years off my life.