Quotes About Impact

Great classic music that I've been turned on to has not only inspired and influenced me, but it has had an effect on my songwriting.

It seems like we live and die by the names we are given, and we harm or heal by the names we give.

I am not the target. I am the archer. My shafts are tipped with truth and they stick deep.

I can't think of a case where poems changed the world, but what they do is they change people's understanding of what's going on in the world.

it was not that plants treated with insecticides had as many eggs, nymphs, and insects on them as untreated plants—they had more! Indeed, insecticide treatment caused up to an 800-fold increase in insect density. This meant that insecticides weren't preventing hopperburn, they were largely responsible for causing it. How the hell could that happen?

Fifty years ago, when the human population was about 3 billion, we were using about 70 percent of the Earth's annual capacity each year. That broke 100 percent by 1980 and stands at about 150 percent now, meaning that we need one and one-half Earths to regenerate what we use in a year. As the authors of this now annual study note, we have a total of just one Earth available.

So, for our own sake, let's know all the rules, not just those that pertain to our bodies. Only through wider understanding and application of these ecological rules will we control and have a chance to reverse the side effects we are causing across the globe.

At one and the same time, therefore, society is everything and society is nothing. Society is the most powerful concoction in the world and society has no existence whatsoever

A writer strives to express a universal truth in the way that rings the most bells in the shortest amount of time.

It has been a long time since philosophers have read men's souls. It is not their task, we are told. Perhaps. But we must not be surprised if they no longer matter much to us.

The Beatles mean so much to so many people, you know? Everybody has at least one song of The Beatles that's one of their favorite songs of all time.

The good things in history are usually of very short duration, but afterward have a decisive influence on what happens over long periods of time.

A man, in his books, may be said to walk the earth a long time after he is gone.

Near the point of impact, time acelerates to the speed of light.

I remember last time I played Nocturnal Wonderland I dropped that 'Move 4 First Aid' mashup and people ripping their hair out... crazy night.

Just in the nick of time they realized that it was their own habitat they were wrecking -- that they weren't merely visitors.

We can change the world one laugh at a time.

Sustained success means making the greatest possible impact over the longest period of time

I don't watch the news. I get really emotional about it, and I carry that stuff with me for a long time.

Isn't it time to talk not only about weather, but also about climate?

Culturally, I think 'All in the Family' was universal enough to have good timing at any time.

Looking back on my career, I think I've been extremely fortunate to be in the right place at the right time in order to have the influence that I did.

It is fatal to be appreciated in one's own time.

Time itself is created through deeds of true kindness.