impact quotes

World War II broke out in 1939, and many people credit that war with saving the economy.

The moral disapprobation of society has an impact on behavior in societies.

When Paul Allen and I started Microsoft over 30 years ago, we had big dreams about software. We had dreams about the impact it could have.

Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour.

The men who followed Him were unique in their generation. They turned the world upside down because their hearts had been turned right side up. The world has never been the same.

With music, you often don’t have to translate it. It just affects you, and you don’t know why.

The truth of it is that every singer out there with songs on the radio is raising the next generation, so make your words count.

The next time someone tells you we can trim the budget by cutting aid, I hope you will ask whether it will come at the cost of more people dying.

I remember at the age of five travelling on a trolley car with my mother past a group of women on a picket line at a textile plant, seeing them being viciously beaten by security people. So that kind of thing stayed with me.

I think television has had a vast, unbelievable impact on us.

Well-spent aid money is saving lives for a few thousand dollars per life saved.

‚Mean‘ is a song I wrote about somebody who wrote things that were so mean so many times that it would ruin my day. Then it would ruin the next day. And it would level me so many times, I just felt like I was being hit in the face every time this person would take to their computer.

Assassination has never changed the history of the world.

The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.

Once the automobile appeared you could have predicted that it would destroy as many people as it did.

The devastating punch we took on September 11th still reverberates throughout American society.

Suppose I criticise Iran. What impact does that have? The only impact it has is in fortifying those who want to carry out policies I don’t agree with, like bombing.

Without gambling, I would not exist.

We have but one permanent home: heaven – that’s still the old truth that we always have to re-learn – and it’s only through the impact of sad experiences that we assimilate it.

The most impactful dollars that Australia can spend are actually what goes to help the poorest.

I think 9/11 affected everybody in one way or another.

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

There’s no doubt that inequality destabilizes societies. I think the social science evidence on that front is crystal clear.

I think we all change each other’s paths. I don’t know which law idea that is in physics, but I don’t think any of us can live without affecting one another.

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.

Considering their impact, you might expect mosquitoes to get more attention than they do. Sharks kill fewer than a dozen people every year, and in the U.S. they get a week dedicated to them on TV every year.

I believe that one person can make a difference.

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.

The multiplication force of technology on cognitive differences is massive.

When people are connected, we can just do some great things. They have the opportunity to get access to jobs, education, health, communications. We have the opportunity to bring the people we care about closer to us. It really makes a big difference.

Everywhere I go, the kids call me ‚the book lady.‘ The older I get, the more appreciative I seem to be of the ‚book lady‘ title. It makes me feel more like a legitimate person, not just a singer or an entertainer. But it makes me feel like I’ve done something good with my life and with my success.

As an entrepreneur, I have been known for taking risks throughout my career, but leaving the European Union is not one of the risks I would want the U.K. to take – not as an investor, not as a father, and not as a grandfather. I am deeply concerned about the impact of leaving.

If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different.

The Global Fund is a central player in the progress being achieved on HIV, TB and malaria. It channels resources to help countries fight these diseases. I believe in its impact because I have seen it firsthand.

If it’s all instruction, you get annoyed with it and bored, and you stop reading. If it’s all entertainment, you read it quite quickly, your heart going pitty-pat, pitty-pat. But when you finish, that’s it. You’re not going to think about it much afterward, apart from the odd nightmare. You’re not going to read that book again.

After Hiroshima was bombed, I saw a photograph of the side of a house with the shadows of the people who had lived there burned into the wall from the intensity of the bomb. The people were gone, but their shadows remained.

We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us.

To terrify children with the image of hell… to consider women an inferior creation. Is that good for the world?

Why should I care about posterity? What’s posterity ever done for me?

Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you’re flying high at first, but it won’t take long before you feel the impact.

Anyone that’s involved in development has discovered that all the good work that’s been done in development has been undone by the AIDS emergency.

Fame hit me like a ton of bricks.

I don’t want to make money; I want to make a difference.

Being acknowledged for your work is always a great accomplishment, whether it’s people in my city, kids in the street, all the way up to the Grammys.

It’s the poorer people in tropical zones who will get really hit by climate change – as well as some ecosystems, which nobody wants to see disappear.

We can all be successful and make money, but when we die, that ends. But when you are significant is when you help other people be successful. That lasts many a lifetime.

There’s only one thing that can kill the movies, and that’s education.

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

I’m very active on social media and see the huge impact it has on engaging with fans and being able to have a voice.

The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the five hundred, he reaches the five hundred thousand.

Whatever starts in California unfortunately has an inclination to spread.

The Vietnam War was a great tragedy for our country. And it is now far enough away so that one can study without using the slogans to see what’s really happened.

Music can change the world because it can change people.

Billy Graham is one of my great lifetime heroes. I think he epitomizes the essence of what a Christian leader should be. I have participated in some of his crusades a couple of times in Atlanta. I’ve seen the profound impact he’s had on me personally, and on other people who were not Christians and accepted Christ as Savior.

Next to religion, baseball has had a greater impact on our American way of life than any other American institution.

Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges.

I have always enjoyed watching my songs make people cry.

People don’t care about what someone says about you in a movie – or even what you say, right? They care about what you build. And if you can make something that makes people’s life better, then that’s something that’s really good.