Quotes About Impact

Success turns a lot of people off. I have a pretty solid sense of joy and respect that irritates people, and can irritate me, too.

We gotta do much more than believe if wanna see the world change We gotta do much more than believe if we really wanna change things We gotta do much more than believe, go on try it, go on try it We gotta do much more than believe if we wanna see the world change

My mom and dad got divorced when I was very young, and growing up in a family where the head of the household wasn't a man made a big difference.

You have to understand that in a person's life there are a few precious moments in which decisions, choices that you make now, will affect you for the rest of your life.

To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, and be nothing." I can't help millions of people change their lives by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

You've left things better than you found them, and that's pretty much all that anybody can hope for.

The first thing to remember is that it's not about you, it's about them. If an employee can't do the job, then they have to go. The last thing you want is employees who are holding your business back or who are demoralizing their coworkers. Your credibility depends on getting rid of such people as soon as possible.

If you are told that the king died and then the queen died, that is a sequence of events. If you are told that the king died and that the queen then died of grief, that is a story.

Govor nam je potreban koliko i vazduh koji udišemo, jer se govorom osloba?amo pritiska nerealizovanih misli, pri?a i re?enica. ?utanje može da ubije - i onoga koji ?uti, kao i onoga koji sluša.

All science is a two-edged sword. It is pure only in the mind, at conception, as an idea, an equation, or just some new way of looking at things. But once it's out there in the world, it becomes whatever the world wants it to be. Germ warfare, nuclear holocaust, or a cure for cancer.

It's been said that you become the average of the five people you associate with the most.

She realized that she had naïvely believed that the workings of the world revolved around her and her family. Never before had she acknowledged that somebody else's life might alter hers.

Imagine , they said, living an existence where the words out of your mouth changed the very fabric of the world around you .

A crash helmet slams down on the BMW's hood, bouncing off and falling into the road. Peter isn't sure if there was a head in it.

Things have a way of taking on the lives of those around them, so when someone in the house betrays you, it's a betrayal multiplied in perpetuity: your favorite book turns to drivel; coffee in space-related paraphernalia, undrinkable; couches, unsittable. And when the betrayer walks out the front door for the last time, you'll have to dig a tunnel under the house, or exit through the chimney, because fuck that door.

There is no question that climate change is happening the only arguable point is what part humans are playing in it.

All we can hope for is that the thing is going to slowly and imperceptibly shift. All I can say is that 50 years ago there were no such thing as environmental policies.

Dealing with global warming doesn't mean we have all got to suddenly stop breathing. Dealing with global warming means that we have to stop waste, and if you travel for no reason whatsoever, that is a waste.

We live our comfortable lives in the shadow of a disaster of our own making. That disaster is being brought about by the very things that allow us to live our comfortable lives.

We humans, alone on Earth, are powerful enough to create worlds, and then destroy them.

We humans, alone on Earth, are powerful enough to create worlds, and then to destroy them.

The natural world is fading. The evidence is all around. It has happened during my lifetime. I have seen it with my own eyes. It will lead to our destruction.

Since I started filming in the 1950s, on average, wild animal populations have more than halved. I look at these images now and I realize that, although as a young man I felt I was out there in the wild experiencing the untouched natural world... it was an illusion. Those forests and plains and seas were already emptying.

Already in 2011 the world was 0.8ºC warmer on average than it was when I was born. That is a speed of change that exceeds any that has happened in the last 10,000 years.