Quotes About Impact

Policymakers think that if they get the abstractions right, that will drive behavior in the desired direction. But the world happens in real time.

But the last time the Cubs won a National League pennant Was the year we dropped the bomb on Japan

90 percent of my time is spent on 10 percent of the world.

Now, I look at where I am now and I know what I wanna to do. What I would like to be able to do is to spend whatever time I have left and to give, and maybe some hope to others.

If you take the hard numbers, then science is clearly telling us that we're running out of time.

It is my fondest wish that in the fullness of time, the American people will look back on the Franken presidency as something of a mixed bag and not as a complete disaster.

I said in court a long time ago that I didn't see that the Soviet Union was significantly helped by the information I gave them, nor that the United States was significantly harmed.

Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Every time someone forgets, someone else disappears,' my brother wrote.

There can come a time when change is so cataclysmic that it changes the fundamentals of how we do our politics.

Take not God's name in vain; select a time when it will have effect.

One of the advantages of the book's having been out there for more than a quarter century is that there's been time for people to report back on what it's done for them.

Writing is nothing less than thought transference, the ability to send one's ideas out into the world, beyond time and distance, taken at the value of the words, unbound from the speaker.

Polio's pretty special because once you get an eradication, you no longer have to spend money on it; it's just there as a gift for the rest of time.

By the time this concert ends this evening, 30,000 Africans will have died because of extreme poverty. By this time tomorrow evening, another 30,000. This does not make sense.

I want to make music that stands the test of time.

To make a quick buck, but over time, if you're not creating value for others, customers, society, isn't going to let you be around.

It takes time for people to get to know a cause or an organization.

One person can make all the difference in the world. For the first time in recorded human history, we have the fate of the whole planet in our hands.

It's not necessarily how many minutes you're on screen, it's the material you have. It's more important what it is you have to do than the amount of time you're there.

I saw what Purple meant to people and I still hear it now when I'm in Europe. I'm always shocked that I'm still asked about Purple because it was such a long time ago.

Every time I come to the States, I wish people would react to war like they react to tobacco, for example. Because war really kills in a second lots of people, thousands of people.

Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Merle Haggard, Hank Williams. All of them are different styles, but those are the songs that make the times. They're the songs that last through time.

Time and distance from the first and second world wars doesn't seem to lessen their horrors.