Quotes About Impact

In the end, all it takes is one small action, by one person. One at a time.

A challenge so far-reaching in its impact and irreversible in its destructive power, that it alters radically human existence... There is no doubt that the time to act is now.

I remember when I was 14, I went to race in Hungary, and I went to a concert, and they were playing Bob Marley songs, and I thought, "Wow, this guy is so special." It's Marley every time.

One cannot resist an idea whose time has come.

If every American donated five hours a week, it would equal the labor of twenty million full-time volunteers.

It definitely changed the game. I happen to be in the game around [the time] when the internet kicked in.

We spend more time working for our labor-saving machines than they do working for us.

An incompetent teacher is even worse than an incompetent surgeon because a surgeon can only cut up one person at a time.

I was at the front for thirteen months, and by the end of that time the sharpest perceptions had become dulled, the greatest words mean.

I had a great time on The Shield. From working on it I have a totally different view of law enforcement.

The startings and arrivals of the cars are now the epochs in the village day.

No man ever did a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greater to himself.

The actions and inactions of hundreds of millions of people and nearly 200 states, will affect what kind of world emerges in the time ahead.

Words are not in the power of men; men are in the power of words. Every time we open our mouths, a thousand dead men speak through us.

Every time we consume meat, eggs or dairy foods, we contribute to ecological devastation and the wasteful misuse of resources on a global scale.

The last time the world was three degrees warmer than today-which is what we expect later this century-sea levels were 25m higher. So that is what we can look forward to if we don't act soon.

A billion could live off the earth; 6 billion living as we do is far too many, and you run out of planet in no time.

I don't believe that you can judge the worth of a movie in the atmosphere in which it comes out the first time. There's just so many reasons why some pictures don't catch on.

It never hurt Lenny Bruce's career to get arrested for swearing. It did back in the time, but he broke those doors down by doing the stuff that he believed in.

The only thing a title can buy is a little time-either to increase your level of influence with others or to undermine it.

Many people help construct our attitudes at a certain time and place.

Some people die before their time so that others can live. It's a cornerstone of civilization.

Then you must reconcile yourself to the fact that something is always hurt by any change. If you do this, you will not be hurt yourself.

The most generous part of your philanthropy could be the time you put in to procure the same results and same outcomes and same returns you demand in business.