Quotes About Impact

You perceive the force of a word. He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense... Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.

I have a voice too, and for good or evil mine is the speech that cannot be silenced.

The field of influence was great and infinitely varied - once one had conquered a name.

For the dead can live only with the exact intensity and quality of the life imparted to them by the living.

the practical value of succes depends not a little on the way you look at it.

History is made by men, but they do not make it in their heads.

se diría que capaces de hacer caer sobre alguien una mirada tan cortante y pesada como un hacha.

The only thing that matters to us is the emotional state of the masses.  Without emotion there is no action.

The actors of 1812 have long since left the stage, their personal interests have vanished leaving no trace, and nothing remains of that time but its historic results.

Shakespeare gathered the fruitage of all who went before him, he has sown the seeds for all who shall ever come after him. He was the great intellectual ocean whose waves touch the continents of all thought.

La globalización actual no funciona. Para muchos de los pobres de la Tierra no está funcionando. Para buena parte del medio ambiente no funciona. Para la estabilidad de la economía global no funciona

la guerra moderna de alta tecnología está diseñada para suprimir el contacto físico: arrojar bombas desde 50.000 pies logra que uno no «sienta» lo que hace, la administración económica moderna es similar, desde un hotel de lujo, uno puede forzar insensiblemente políticas sobre las cuales uno pensaría dos veces si conociera a las personas cuya vida va a destruir

La economía no es un juego de suma cero; la política económica afecta al crecimiento, y las acciones que aumentan la desigualdad ralentizan el crecimiento, especialmente a largo plazo.

the results of our actions follow us like a shadow, or, to use an ancient image, like the wheel of the oxcart following the foot of the ox.

You know, one good apple can spoil the rest," Colonel Korn concluded with conscious irony.

I suppose it is just about impossible for someone like me to rebel anymore and produce any kind of lasting effect. I have lost the power to upset things that I had as a child; I can no longer change my environment or even disturb it seriously.

First impressions die slowly, bad impressions take even longer

My act of rebellion would be absorbed like rain on an ocean and leave no trace. I would not cause a ripple.

How did I get here? Somebody pushed me. Somebody must have set me off in this direction and clusters of other hands must have touched themselves to the controls at various times, for I would not have picked this way for the world.

We didn't want you to die by yourself." "What difference would it make?

I discovered that people are not really afraid of dying; they're afraid of not ever having lived, nor ever having deeply considered their life's higher purpose, and not ever having stepped into that purpose, and at least tried to make a difference in this world.

A suggestion has no power in and of itself. Its power arises from the fact that you accept it mentally.

So your first sentence should be very compelling by virtue of its short length and ease of reading. No long multisyllabic words. Keep it short, sweet and almost incomplete so that the reader has to read the next sentence.

She was the split-second experience that changes everything.; the car smash; the letter we shouldn't have opened; the lump in the breast or groin; the blinding flash. On my well-ordered stage-set the lights were up, and maybe at last I was waiting in the wings.