Quotes About Impact

Man has done his best to ruin the world he lives in.

It seems to me like stealing, for men and women to live in the world and do nothing to make it better.

be brisk, be splendid, and be public.

The past is never dead. It is not even past." —WILLIAM FAULKNER

But that's what I mean: you're Ms. Hempel forever. At least to us.

It shows the truth - that the real meaning of a word is only as powerful or harmless as the emotion behind it.

Except for the people who were there that one day they discovered the polio vaccine, being part of history is rarely a good idea. History is one war after another with a bunch of murders and natural disasters in between.

The only thing more dangerous than an idea is a belief. And by dangerous I don't mean thought-provoking. I mean: might get people killed.

Can't people do hurtful things, sometimes, and not even know they're doing them?

Richard Rivers has come into Briar like a spore of yeast into dough, changing it utterly.

Can't people do hurtful things, sometimes, and not even know they're doing them?

As Anne Frank once wrote, "How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

Alex Korb writes in "The Grateful Brain," "Gratitude can have such a powerful impact on your life because it engages your brain in a virtuous cycle. Your brain only has so much power to focus its attention. It cannot easily focus on both positive and negative stimuli." Literally, you can't be grateful and anxious at the same time. Once again, the threat system in our amygdala is overridden.

Sugar and the man in the Hawaiian shirt stepped forward and pulled him up. But as they stepped away again, the backs of their hands brushed- it was just the lightest touch, for the briefest of moments, almost nothing more than hair upon hair, yet Sugar felt it like a blowtorch on creme brûlée.

Any idealist who tries to join the Peace Corps must realize he is not going to change the world overnight.

After a woman understands that she does have something called AD/HD and has had it for a long time, she begins to look back and see how deeply it has affected every area of her life. At this point she will often move into the next stage—anger. She often feels anger at lost opportunities, looking back at the paths that she didn't take. She focuses on the point at which things started to go off course and begins to feel anger at a system that let her down as a child.

stayed. I feel like life happens to other people, and I drift in and out of their lives without ever making any kind of impact. I want to matter to someone.

It was another of those big life-changing moments when you didn´t know what the next ten seconds would bring but you knew that nothing would ever be the same after.

Immediately, I wanted to gather up everything I'd just said and stuff it back into my mouth. But once you've said stuff, you can't unsay it. Your words are out there, aren't they? Buzzing around in the quiet of the room so you can hear them echoing back at you...

Do not use poisonous words against anyone, for words wound more fatally than even arrows.

Wataru referring to his conversation with Asaka) That conversation was a bit bad for one's heart...

For the first time in history, the human species as a whole has gone into politics. Everyone is in the act, and there is no telling what may come of it.

In an age of madness, to expect to be untouched by madness is a form of madness.

Every book, every story, has a sort of invisible signature at the front. And when you've written the first few lines of a story, those govern all the rest that follows.