Quotes About Impact

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We're more popular than Jesus Christ now. I don't know which will go first; rock and roll or Christianity.

We're more popular than Jesus now. I don't know which will go first—rock 'n' roll or Christianity.

It was not enough to come and listen to a great sermon or message every Sunday morning and be confined to those four walls and those four corners. You had to get out and do something.

If not us, then who? If not now, then when?

A story is about a single moment in a character's life when a definitive choice is made, after which nothing is the same.

Time sneaks up on you like a wind shield on a bug.

About 200,000 academic journals are published in English each year. The average number of readers per article is five.   The average numbers of readers of any given published scientific paper is said to be 0.6.

If everyone in the world washed their hands properly, a million lives could be saved a year.

Sending a man to the Moon and finding Osama Bin Laden cost the US government about the same amount of time and money: ten years and $100 billion.

Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.

It is labour indeed that puts the difference on everything.

Omitted is the fact that the UK's homicide rate rose after its gun control laws were enacted.8 The UK's homicide rate is lower than the US's, but this is despite the country's counterproductive gun control laws, not because of them. The UK's homicide rate was very low before it had any gun control laws.

You hear gun control advocates say all the time "guns kill people." And you hear a lot of Second Amendment advocates say "no, people kill people." But what you have to understand, and what you will understand after reading this book, is: gun control kills people.

How many gun control laws that a state has potentially explains about 3% of the changes in its total number of firearm deaths.47 The ultimate question is whether total deaths, not just firearm deaths, go up or down as a result of more gun control.

Influenza killed more people in a year than the Black Death of the Middle Ages killed in a century; it killed more people in twenty-four weeks than AIDS has killed in twenty-four years.

Emerson said that an institution is the lengthened shadow of one man

We can misspend time - hurting people, ourselves included, making the world worse - but to 'waste' time - to get no motion at all, good or bad - to do that one would have to not be alive at all.

When your arm gets hit, the ball is not going to go where you want it to.

Pugilism is the silliest of all combat arts. It consists of taking the human hand, with its multitude of tiny, frangible bones, and smashing it against the human skull, a most unyielding target.

Design matters a lot when it is leveraged with a deep understanding of computation and the unique set of possibilities it brings.

A greeting, gesture or a giggle…leave other people feeling better than before they met you." -John Magee

If you look at things that really affect people's lives - sport, the arts, charities - they were always at the back of the queue for government money - health, social security, defence, pensions were all way ahead. And each of those areas - sports, the arts, the lottery - got relatively petty cash from the government.

What will happen if our labor is no longer needed? If jobs for warehouse workers, garbage collectors, doctors, lawyers, and journalists are displaced by technology?