Quotes About Impact

There is a direct line relationship between what happened in Afghanistan in the work up to 11 September 2001 and what we're doing in Afghanistan today.

Stories get remembered about 13 times better than statistics. Facts tell, but stories sell!

Photography threatens because photography implies notice and permanent record.

Politics is the force that channels social, cultural, and economic powers and makes them imminent in our lives. Abstaining from politics is like turning your back on a beast when it is angry and intent on ripping your guts out.

Good words cool more than cold water.

The critical oil and natural gas producing region that we fought so many wars to try and protect our economy from the adverse impact of losing that supply or having it available only at very high prices.

There are two novels that can transform a bookish 14-year-kid's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish daydream that can lead to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood in which large chunks of the day are spent inventing ways to make real life more like a fantasy novel. The other is a book about orcs.

There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year-old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged.

NAFTA is a death sentence for the Indians

No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.

My father was a very great man. I will never forget the last thing he ever said to me. Nor will I ever repeat it.

They that govern most make the least noise.

What difference does it make whether your work is appreciated or not? The work will still be yours. Anyway, most of us are only appreciated after we are dead.

Your legacy as an educator is always determined by what your students do. You change the world by empowering your students to do the same.

Get the very best tools to serve your people, not just lots of tools.

If you want to do something that really changes someone's life, the best thing you can do is make the person you're trying to help a participant in the process.

It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.

When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you've got two new people.

It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world.

He stands in history as the completer of the globe.

But these few are the salt of the earth; without them, human life would become a stagnant pool. Not only is it they who introduce good things which did not before exist, it is they who keep the life in those which already existed.

I'm convinced that, unfortunately, the general direction of rule changes for a long time has been to carve out greater space for the individual athlete while curbing the impact of team play. This narrows the opportunities to participate. In general, only "cookie cutter" athletic prodigies get serious looks. In my opinion, tinkering with the game to distort the natural balance between team and individual play is counterproductive.

To this end the greatest asset of a school is the personality of the teacher.

One person with a belief is a social power equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.