Quotes About Impact

We are in an age of exponentially changing technologies. Ergo, we are in an age of exponentially changing ethics.

Their eyes met; neither would forget.

If life only has the meaning you bring to it, we have the opportunity to bring rich meaning to our lives by the service we do for others. It's a positive thing.

It would surely be a mistake to gauge the success of feminism by its success as a colonial project. p41.

The old adage which says that it is 'whom you know that counts' is far off the mark. It is what you know about whom you know that truly makes difference.

Especially since my mother says Grandma is too much of an influence on me.

So many adults are exhausting themselves worrying about other people corrupting their children with books, they're turning kids off to reading instead of turning them on.

contributed to the disaster.

And it felt like I was a black - and - white photo magically rippling into color wherever he touched me.

other words, technologies only come to life and have meaning as people adopt and use them.

Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

Lord, grant that my work increase knowledge and help other men. Failing that, Lord, grant that it will not lead to man's destruction. Failing that, Lord, grant that my article in Brain be published before the destruction takes place.

all charity only tends to perpetuate the wretchedness it aims to eradicate

You must so impress others that they will feel that in associating with you they will get increase for themselves.

We are the most dangerous species of life on the planet, and every other species, even the earth itself, has cause to fear our power to exterminate. But we are also the only species which, when it chooses to do so, we'll go to great effort to save what it might destroy.

There is a sense in which we are all each other's consequences.

I have heard of people's lives being changed by a dramatic or traumatic event--a death, a divorce, a winning lottery ticket, a failed exam. I never heard of anybody's life but ours being changed by a dinner party.

You are at once a lasting presence and an unhealed wound.

It is strange to find ourselves people of consequence.

I really only want to say that we may love a place and still be dangerous to it.

Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.

A poem is a meteor.

Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts it becomes an epidemic. p901

The partaker partakes of that which changes him. The child that touches takes character from the thing, the body, it touches.