Quotes About Impact

Que unos libros puedan alterar hasta tal punto nuestra conciencia y dejar que el mundo siga de mal en peor, es algo que deja sin palabras.

Insegnare è proprio questo: ricominciare fino a scomparire come professori. Se non riusciamo a collocare i nostri studenti nell'indicativo presente della nostra lezione, se il nostro sapere e il piacere di servirsene non attecchiscono su quei ragazzini e quelle ragazzine, nel senso botanico del termine, la loro esistenza vacillerà sopra vuoti infiniti.

Di tutto, ai libri facciamo subire di tutto. Ma solo il modo in cui gli altri li maltrattano ci ferisce...

Me quede estupefacto. Estos chiquillos... No solo nos creen omnipotentes cuando vivimos, sino que además nos suponen toda clase de poderes después de la muerte" Pierre

Le bonheur individuel se doit de produire des retombées collectives, faute de quoi, la société n'est qu'un rêve de prédateur.

the past century has shown that dumb minds can do extraordinary damage.

We're not destroying the world because we're clumsy. We're destroying the world because we are, in a very literal and deliberate way, at war with it.

You're captives of a civilizational system that more or less compels you to go on destroying the world in order to live. … You are captives—and you have made a captive of the world itself. That's what's at stake, isn't it?—your captivity and the captivity of the world.

But charisma only wins people's attention. Once you have their attention, you have to have something to tell them.

El conocimiento es neutral, la tecnología no lo es.

Una tecnología implica una ideología, ya que afecta a la forma en que pensamos y actuamos y nos obliga a escoger varias formas de proceder. Nuevos artefactos generan su propia dinámica con consecuencias difíciles de predecir. Los inventores del automóvil no se imaginaban las consecuencias, y tampoco el inventor del World Wide Web podía imaginar la transformación social y cultural que está causando.

America could leave the Middle East, thought Gabriel, but the Middle East would follow it home.

Elections have consequences. – Gabriel Allon

A nuclear bomb can only be dropped once. But money can be wielded every day with no fallout and no threat of mutually assured destruction.

What would normally be good news instead laid bare a pesky side effect of innovation: greater efficiency required fewer workers, leaving rural communities with little to support themselves.

Pull a thread in my story and feel the tremor half a world and two millenia away.

Your legacy is the fragrance of your life that remains when you yourself are not present.

There are those rare people who function like human magnets, who are individually so attractive – or repellent, depending on the situation – that a considerable amount more seems to happen to them, and likewise, their presence in a certain place makes more seem to happen around them. They're magical people. They have special power.

Moons of ache glowed in spaces of her meat and when she moved the moons banged together and stunned.

James Agee and Flannery O'Connor have impacted on me hardest

People always underestimate the impact of technology. To give you an example: In the 1970s the frontier for offshore development was 200 meters, today it is 4 000 meters.

The United States generates less than 1 percent of the plastic waste in oceans. About 90 percent of river-sourced plastic pollution in the oceans comes from uncontrolled dumping into ten rivers in Asia and Africa, which, if properly managed, could dramatically reduce the wastage. Plastic bags and straws may be the most visible use of plastics, but they constitute less than 2 percent of plastics.

Because of their impact on our memories, writers rule. They wield the instrument by which our world is organized.

But here's the good news: 70 percent is in your control! That 70 percent is called your lifestyle, and it makes a much bigger impact on your future than you may think. How you choose to eat, exercise, sleep, relax, and deal with stress adds up in big ways. Don't rely on "good genes" to get you by long term.