Quotes About Impact

That is at the heart of the concept of "scale," which is very much a common denominator in motivating the region's programmers, hardware hackers, and venture capitalists. It is not enough to make a profit, or to create something that is beautiful. It has to have an impact. It has to be something that goes under 95 percent of the world's Christmas trees, or offers clean water or electricity to billions of people.

They weren't necessarily soldiers, but you didn't have to be soldiers to be affected by it all.

I knew then the answer to my question; the question I'd asked myself many times during this war, and many more times since it ended. When would I be able to put the war behind me? When would I be able to forget it? And I knew now that the answer was simple. Never. I never would. Some things end. But war never does.

Cynicism is like gastro: it goes through your whole system and makes you shitty.

I wrote it because we wanted to believe that our lives had some meaning. We wanted to know that we hadn't passed through the world unchanged, and that we hadn't left the world unchanged. We didn't want to come and go from this planet without leaving a mark.

We'd thought that we were among the first humans to invade this basin, but humans had invaded everything, everywhere. They didn't have to walk into a place to invade it.

Nothing reaches inside you and grabs you by the guts the way fear does.

This tire, represents stewardship. We are all stewards who make contact with the world in every kind of situation.

The Depth of your Mythology is the Extent of your Effectiveness.

Leadership is not about titles, positions or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.

Ordinary people with commitments can make an extraordinary impact in their world

Finding heaven while still on earth is one thing. What do we do with it once we've got it?

It's so interesting how success hits people and how they react to it.

There are people in the world who have the power to change our values.

Ideas shape the course of history.

The businessman is only tolerable so long as his gains can be held to bear some relation to what, roughly and in some sense, his activities have contributed to society.

Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the sleeves of some defunct economist

You are the only Bible some unbelievers will ever read.

No just cause is futile, even if it's lost, if it helps make the future better than the past.

Stress hormones can do some truly nasty things to your brain if boatloads of the stuff are given free access to your central nervous system.

It seemed possible that one or both of these books might change my life.

Fiona Apple's album made me more immediately depressed than any other music I remembered hearing.

But the Beatles turned out to be one of the things you couldn't avoid, like alcohol, or death.

Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.