Quotes About Impact

One ship drives east and other drives west by the same winds that blow. It's the set of the sails and not the gales that determines the way they go.

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The hours after her discovery blur in his mind, though certain moments stand out sharp as splinters beneath his skin.

course, but a purely personal one that would cleave not the ship, but their little trio, along fault lines none of them had before acknowledged.

children often didn't notice the things adults classified as disastrous. The opposite, Whitcomb thought, was also true.

I hope I make people feel better. I hope I take people out of their situations a little bit and make them happier. That's really why I do what I do.

Sometimes, someone comes unexpectedly into your life, takes you by surprise, and changes your heart forever.

There is no limit to the good you may do. If

I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference.

Helping feels good to the helper, but over time it may make the helped feel incompetent. Dr.

All this talk about what a marvelous future science'll bring us? Art can change things just as much.' She stubbed out her cigarette. 'Maybe better.' 'Why's that?' 'Art doesn't kill anyone.

I don't find acting to be a particularly noble way to make a living. I'm not saving anybody's life, I'm not a teacher, I'm not working for UNICEF. I don't think I'm some big deal.

At a national level, the study found that thanks to Wal-Mart the total earnings of retail workers declined by $4.5 billion, with most of these losses concentrated in metropolitan areas.

I should not want to live unless I could live to do some good to others.

My name is Mike. Instantly forgettable. Unlike Heather. What a breathless little name that is.

But they forget that crime is the criminal's business, and that every business leaves its indelible mark of habit on the business man.

The only day I remember of my parents' marriage was the day my dad walked out. As I stood there at five years old, with my older sister and younger brother, I knew that he was gone.

Perhaps more people would be inclined to take action if, like the stereotypical terrorist, global warming had a moustache.

This leads to a pattern in which the child cries out and either gets nothing or gets an insufficient or intermittent response. Then the child becomes exhausted and collapses, either from depleted energy or giving up to conserve a sliver of energy (Lowen, 1971). It is often at this point--collapse--that the caregiver eventually takes care of the child. This "teaches" the child that he or she has no effect on the world and that nurturance comes when they are collapsed.

There's the ambiguity of human relationships, for instance. A relationship between two people, just like a sequence of words, is ambiguous if it is open to different interpretations. And if two people do have differing views about their relationship - I don't just mean about its state, I mean about its very nature - then that difference can affect the entire course of their lives.

What else is life from the time you were born but a struggle to matter, at least to someone?

I don't like explosions. I don't mind progress. But digital photography has made every man, woman, child and chimpanzee a photographer of sorts and consequently has numbed down the general quality of photographs.

Genuine success is not in all you've been able to achieve or acquire. It's the sum total of all the positive things you've accomplished in a lifetime.

is managed can have an enormous impact on the way a child feels about herself and about the world.