Quotes About Impact

Kahneman termed the "Peak-End rule": an average of the pain experienced at just two moments—the single worst moment of the procedure and the very end. [...] Your remembering self is attempting to recognize not only the peaks of joy and valleys of misery but also how the story works out as a whole. That is profoundly affected by how things ultimately turn out.

Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.

If you want us to change the world someday, we at least have to live long enough to grow up!' shouts the child.

Women are powerful and dangerous.

If I ever really sounded I would rupture your eardrums or your heart.

But past events had impressed uponme how fast things could go wrong, and how different life might be after they did.

Das hindert nicht, daß mich ein Band Buddhaismus stärker als all die übrigen heiligen Bücher beeinflußt

The whole time I was growing up...living in this house...Papa was like a shadow that followed you everywhere. ...It would wrap around you and lay there until you couldn't tell which one was you anymore.

Other people sound flat to my ear; their words just hang in the air. But when my mother says something, the ends curl.

My mistake was in underestimating the emotional force of a song you have already hear a thousand times.

Saying just the right thing after a considerable, awkward pause is far less effective than saying the wrong thing with perfect timing. I'm telling you.

Books are like that. Books just are. Sometimes books need to be, they need to exist and so they will body-snatch a writer and climb out through the writer's fingers and into the world where they belong to different people to different degrees and for different reasons.

Don't think for a minute that bad publicity and endless criticism don't leave their claw marks on everyone concerned. Your friends try to cheer you up by saying lightly, I suppose you get used to it, and ignore it. You try. You try damned hard. But you never get used to it. It always wounds and hurts.

I feel that others live up to me, if they want me.

It's such a waste to be subtle and vicious with people who don't even know that you're being subtle and vicious

I want to know that I've accomplished something. I want to feel that it had some meaning. At the last summing up, I want to be sure it wasn't all-for nothing.

The sight of an achievement was the greatest gift a human being could offer to others.

Victor Hugo: "If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away.

He thought--while his hand moved rapidly--what a power there was in words; later, for those who heard them, but first for the one who found them; a healing power, a solution, like the breaking of a barrier.

Man is the only living species that has the power to act as his own destroyer—and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.

That's all a belief was. A thought. But look at how much power it held!

La última gran hambruna que había conocido Rusia, en 1891, aproximadamente en las mismas regiones (el Volga medio y bajo y una parte de Kazajstán), había causado de cuatrocientas a quinientas mil víctimas.

From Canada to Pensacola, families shuddered at the Act

With great power, there must also come, great responsibility