Quotes About Impact

I've been around some very famous people, but no one has the effect Maradona has people tremble in his presence.

Being back here—I'm suddenly confronting the enormity of that kind of commitment. And just how much you can fuck someone up if you half-ass it.

The important element is the way in which all things are connected. Every thought and action sends shivers of energy into the world around us, which affects all creation. Perceiving the world as a web of connectedness helps us to overcome the feelings of separation that hold us back and cloud our vision. This connection with all life increases our sense of responsability for every move, every attitude, allowing us to see clearly that each soul does indeed make a difference to the whole.

The trouble is it's very difficult to pin-point the most important thing because Aids affects everyone in different levels of society, differently and you have to respond to it differently.

verdad que le concierne íntimamente, una oscura consecuencia de su historia,

you are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world,

Invece non si tratta di una disgrazia: siamo stati visitati da qualcuno molto grande.

Das Buch gelangt überall hin, geht von Hand zu Hand, von Hirn zu Hirn, um dort seine Spuren zu hinterlassen.

He taught me never to smile, which helps me when I visit disaster sites.

The footprint of the owner is the best manure.

The pleasure of one's effect on other people still exists in age -- what's called making a hit. But the hit is much rarer and made of different stuff.

If it upsets you better not recall it." --The Chalk Garden, a play by Enid Bagnold, 1953/1956

La sua sincerità aveva un che di abbacinante, e ogni volta che diceva una cosa - qualsiasi cosa - riusciva a nebulizzare interesse e fascino attorno a sé e si vedeva lontano chilometri che le sue non erano pose.

22 bullet—very unlikely to kill

Qué fácil es torcer la trayectoria de un adolescente, inmersos como estamos en una sociedad muy permisiva y relativista! Por

Sólo dejaban huella en el mundo los hombres audaces, los rebeldes con alteza de miras, no las hormigas laboriosas que ascendían por escalafón.

The study suggests that weight problems could cancel out life-extending benefits of medical advances in the coming decades.

For example, one study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) found that those who are 30 pounds overweight lose between one and six years of life, while those who are about 100 pounds overweight"' lose up to 13 years of life.

The movies people don't talk about or remember after six months' time don't really matter.

No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come." Victor

A great man is one who either helps to find out what the world is really like, or else tries to change the world to match his image. In both cases he is trying to bring images and reality closer together by changing one or the other.

we shared a common interest in how the past effects people—some let it decide who they are, while others make it part of what they will do.

Parents, deliberately or unaware, teach their children from birth how to behave, drink, feel and perceive. Liberation from these influences is no easy matter.

the past effects people—some let it decide who they are, while others make it part of what they will do.