Quotes About Impact

He made me feel that I mattered.

It is a literary truism that there must be a period of distillation before the real impact of some tremendous event, either historical or personal, can emerge in writing.

What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is what can you make people believe you have done.

No phenomenon can be isolated, but has repercussions through every aspect of our lives. We are learning that we are a fundamental part of nature's ecosystems.

There is little doubt that we are in the midst of a revolution of a much more profound and fundamental nature than the social and political revolutions of the last half century.

Water is powerful. It can wash away earth, put out fire, and even destroy iron.

After all, when a stone is dropped into a pond, the water continues quivering even after the stone has sunk to the bottom.

Words. Just little black marks on paper. Just sounds in the empty air. But think of the power they have! They can make you laugh or cry, love or hate, fight or run away. They can heal or hurt. They even come to look and sound like what they mean. Angry looks angry on the page. Ugly sounds ugly when you say it.

Some criticism, no doubt, is constructive, but too much is a subtle poison.

Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.

Whatever we do or fail to do will influence the course of history.

A. J. P. Taylor who said that the historian's inevitable task is to decide whether something that happened in history was a Good Thing or a Bad Thing.

to be known as "an Edinburgh Reviewer" made people stop and stare at dinner parties or literary gatherings—although sometimes it made other people stand up and walk out.

It may seem incredible that a single idea could have such a devastating impact. However, it appeared to have the unimpeachable authority of both Plato and Aristotle behind it—and the Romans were great believers in authority. In addition, Polybius had hit upon the Romans' one fatal weakness: their fascination with politics.

American workers in war-related industries in 1942–43 died or were injured in numbers twenty times greater than the American servicemen killed or wounded during those same years.

We all worry about the population explosion, but we don't worry about it at the right time.

Een mens wordt nu eenmaal meer bepaald door de liefde die hem is onthouden, dan door de liefde die hij kreeg.

Klinken omdat het verleden opnieuw wordt geboren, dat is zoiets als, als.. als het vieren van een aanslag op de toekomst.

Demographics is destiny

Well, all the plays that I was trying to write were plays that would grab an audience by the throat and not release them, rather than presenting an emotion which you could observe and walk away from.

The word "now" is like a bomb through the window, and it ticks.

Empowerment comes from precision, precision, precision; from language that harpoons the exact meaning, the nuance, for the intended audience.

amazing became the It utterance of the millennium's first decade. Never were so many so amazed at so much that amounts to so little. If

What will happen to the world when you leave it? Nothing, in any case, will remain of what is now visible.