Quotes About Impact

#1. There isn't one celebrity I've worked with who doesn't have major doubts about what impact they are having. I am glad when they question the impact, because it shows they are based firmly in the reality that peacemaking isn't the same as changing a streetlight or distributing mosquito nets.

John Prendergast

#2. How can we educators claim credit for understanding, let alone teaching, the 'global mind' without a single course on the impact of religion on every day life?

Warren Bennis

#3. The responsibilities, roles, and divinely endowed gifts of men and women differ in nature but not in quality, significance, or degree of importance, impact, or influence. Latter-day Saint doctrine places women equal to, and yet distinct and different from, men.

Sheri Dew

#4. You have an eating disorder if diet and food negatively impact your life and add stress where natural calm energy would usually be.

Scott Abel

#5. I have more artistic control in a smaller show. But it doesn't really matter. Sometimes you can have the smallest role in the smallest production and still make a big impact.

Neil Patrick Harris

#6. The only way change will ever happen is if we speak up, and we have to know that it actually has an impact. Because we have a lot more power than we think we do, I think.

Josh Brolin

#7. This is really skin privilege, the ranking of color in terms of its closeness to white people or white-skinned people and its devaluation according to how dark one is and the impact that has on people who are dedicated to the privileges of certain levels of skin color.

Toni Morrison

#8. As I have said, the first thing is to be honest with yourself. You can never have an impact on society if you have not changed yourself ... Great peacemakers are all people of integrity, of honesty, but humility.

Nelson Mandela

#9. I don't want to drain what little energy I have on hate, on envy, on blame. I'll need every last drop to better myself, so I can make what little impact I can in this world.

Katelyne Parker

#10. Cancer's only one page in my life, and I will not allow this page to impact the rest of my life.

Ananda Shankar Jayant

#11. Most poets are elitist dregs more concerned with proving their skill with a dictionary than communicating ideas with impact.

Henry Rollins

#12. The Internet's impact is immense. My students can't imagine ever paying for a book.

Edmund White

#13. Being constantly in the public eye gives me a special responsibility, particularly that of using the impact of photographs to transmit a message, to sensitize the word to an important cause, to defend certain values.

Princess Diana

#14. I love the big scale and immediate impact of posters. They're my favourite things to design.

Paula Scher

#15. You can get an interview with anyone overseas on the basis of being part of 'Newsweek.' It still has a great deal of impact.

Tina Brown

#16. Comedy today is not what it was years ago. It's always changing, in particular to female comics. No longer are certain subjects considered to be a male preserve. Women can talk about sexuality and their bodily functions and it can be very, very entertaining. It's changed the impact of comedy acting.

Patrick Stewart

#17. It's not the length of man's life that establishes his importance and influence, in fact, the length of a man's life has very little to do with it's impact.

John F. MacArthur Jr.

#18. It's never wrong to be rich, but I want to believe, success is not limited to riches; it involves influence. If your riches don't create any impact, you are missing it.

Israelmore Ayivor

#19. Besides the money aspect, I guess I was curious about sex work. In the way that most people are, but also because ever since I was a teen I had read feminist writers like Dworkin and Mackinnon and the way they wrote about sex work had an enormous impact on me. Was it really as horrible as they said?

Marie Calloway

#20. But what do you say to have any impact on a man who at one time admired the Spice Girls?

Karl Ove Knausgard

#21. The impact of climate change is a tremendous risk to the security and well-being of our countries.

Nancy Pelosi

#22. People seem to deny the existence of animal emotions so that they can continue to justify inhumane treatment and exploitation and avoid the fact that our actions have a deep emotional impact on our fellow beings.

Stacey O'Brien

#23. I do think that music videos have a huge impact on the way you listen to music.

Devendra Banhart

#24. The first person a customer speaks with has the greatest impact on that customer's impression of Safeway.

Steven Burd

#25. As horrific as this impact has been on my constituents, it is only a small part of the overwhelming destruction covering 90,000 square miles of the Gulf Coast.

Jo Bonner

#26. It's a strange life ... you really don't know how you will impact people or how things will play out.

Emily Haines

#27. Heat can also be produced by the impact of imperfectly elastic bodies as well as by friction. This is the case, for instance, when we produce fire by striking flint against steel, or when an iron bar is worked for some time by powerful blows of the hammer.

Hermann Von Helmholtz

#28. If brands can find a voice that matches them, and the artist embraces it, they can find a way that would serve them that doesn't feel like a sellout to the artists and has dramatic impact for the brand.

Patrick Whitesell

#29. Anyone who really wants to coach and have a lot of impact on people's lives, high school's the way to go. To be honest with you, of all the jobs I've ever had, the one I really, truly enjoyed the most was teaching and coaching in high school. It just doesn't pay as well.

Charlie Weis

#30. If you look at all the comic book films that have come since then, in terms of tone, in terms of look, even in terms of Danny Elfman's music for Batman, so many that followed have been inspired by that, specifically. It had a cultural impact worldwide.

Michael Uslan

#31. Inspiration is the impact of a fact on a well-prepared mind

Louis Pasteur

#32. I believe that there is an urgent need to restructure the discussion of war to include the impact it has on women.

Zainab Salbi

#33. Rarely are there photographs or films of death by bombs or missiles. Therefore, the moment a mother and her children die when a U.S. missile hits their house makes no emotional impact on us. We don't see that moment, so it almost always remains anonymous. IS

Jurgen Todenhofer

#34. Love is never worthless. Never believe that your love makes no difference. Even if you can't see its impact, the impact is there, if only in the way that it affects your own soul.

Ovadya Ben Malka

#35. Every human being has an impact on another.

Patch Adams

#36. We hired a CSR person at Twitter, years before we hired our first sales person, to make sure we had a culture and impact of doing good.

Biz Stone

#37. A random act of kindness, no matter how small, can make a tremendous impact on someone else's life.

Roy Bennett

#38. I am Living proof that you don't have to be an insider to be knowledgeable about Fashion and have an impact on the industry.

Susan Gregg

#39. Maxwell's Equations have had a greater impact on human history than any ten presidents.

Carl Sagan

#40. The people who have impacted the world didn't live long. Martin Luther King. John F. Kennedy. These people who impact the world were not old people, but they lived so effectively that we cannot erase them from history.

Myles Munroe

#41. The moment when one first meets a great work of art has an impact that can never again be recaptured.

Arthur C. Clarke

#42. Regrettably, many Americans don't pay much attention to the inconsistencies in U.S. foreign policy. People in other parts of the world who feel the impact of those policies play close attention. And they take notes.

Charles Kimball

#43. The harm that you do to others is the harm that you do to yourself and you cannot think then that you can cause wars in other parts of the world and destroy people and drone them without this having a terrible impact on your own soul and your own consciousness.

Alice Walker

#44. Self-critical thoughts and detrimental predictions about yourself have a huge impact on our mood/feelings. It affects our attitude, decisions and behavior. They ensure our self-esteem stays low and can create physical illnesses.

Maddy Malhotra

#45. A little word can have a big impact. The difference between all and some. - Liz Sutton

Susan Mallery

#46. We are all role models to someone in this world, and we can all have an impact - for good.

Tony Dungy

#47. Clothes allow you to see yourself in a different light. They can transform you instantly and have a very real, visceral impact. Clothes become symbolic of who we are.

Stacy London

#48. I grew up in and the teachers. I think I was very lucky. I think I had a lot of social capital, and so when I found myself in this position of influence, I just - then I started to engage a bit with some of the problems in the world and realize that I could actually have an impact.

Matt Damon

#49. People underestimate the impact they can have on the process through contact with legislators. By being part of an organized group in an area that you have an interest in, you can multiply the impact of your own ideas.

Ralph Regula

#50. It's nice to be happy. But the meaning of life is meaning - what's the impact you're having on the world. Suffering to accomplish that is a perfectly fine thing.

Reid Hoffman

#51. At a relatively early age, I began to believe that building a business was perhaps the greatest opportunity for making an impact, because it's a tool for making a change in the world.

Elizabeth Holmes

#52. I try to construct a picture in which shapes, spaces, colors, form a set of unique relationships, independent of any subject matter. At the same time I try to capture and translate the excitement and emotion aroused in me by the impact with the original idea.

Milton Avery

#53. People will never respond to you more positively than when you seek to make your impact felt at the human level.

Cendrine Marrouat

#54. Impact in advertising today is 80 percent strategy, 20 percent copy. This makes it nearly impossible for good copy to compensate for weak strategy.

Roy H. Williams

#55. Although it is important to examine the consequences of today's actions far into the future, it is important not to confuse far future actions with what is done today. The impact of emissions that are made after 2100 has no bearing on what the world should do for the next 30 or even 100 years.

Robert O. Mendelsohn

#56. A life isn't significant except for its impact on other lives.

Jackie Robinson

#57. I mean that reading forms your opinions, your worldview, especially childhood reading, and anything that does that has an impact. So call them friends, call some stories enemies if you want, but don't deny their influence.

Katherine Reay

#58. Only surrendered Christians will make an impact on our world. The world does not need any more lukewarm Christians, or lazy Christians, or quarrelsome Christians, or doubting Christians, or prideful Christians.

Billy Graham

#59. One of the things I learned is that you've got to deal with the underlying social problems if you want to have an impact on crime - that it's not a coincidence that you see the greatest amount of violent crime where you see the greatest amount of social dysfunction.

Eric Holder

#60. The heaviest impact of the work of art is in the guts. Art does not reason. It manhandles you and changes you ...

Lawrence Durrell

#61. It was our third game in five days. It seemed to have an impact on us.

David Blatt

#62. The power of your intentions has a greater impact on your life than your actions.

Debasish Mridha

#63. When determining appropriate levels of compensation, management must determine if the employee turnover rate is too low, too high, or just right. If turnover rate is high enough to adversely impact the entity's performance, then employee compensation is probably too low.

Jason Chaffetz

#64. Early in my life I had made a pact with myself. I would never eat anything that moved when I cooked it, excited the dog, or inflated upon impact with my teeth.

Erma Bombeck

#65. I was about seven or eight years old when I first heard West Side Story, and it had a huge impact on me. If you look at the elements of that record, it contains many of the things I enjoy doing today.

Steve Vai

#66. Most people don't leave their mark on the world through big miracles. Some do," she added quickly. "But sometimes the biggest impact is made by a series of small, quiet things.

Richelle Mead

#67. The evaluative criteria are then listed as: "1) storytelling quality; 2) photographic quality; 3) impact; 4) simplicity; 5) beauty" (Mich, 46).

Philippe Mather

#68. The kiss was brief and gentle, scarcely more than the formality that concludes a wedding, yet as striking in its impact as though they had this minute plighted a troth.

Diana Gabaldon

#69. Titles don't mean anything. What really matters is the impact you make on a daily basis!

Akilnathan Logeswaran

#70. The stock market has an insidious effect on C.E.O.s' moods, because of its impact not just on their companies but on their own bank accounts.

James Surowiecki

#71. Deep Purple definitely belongs in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. 'Cause they had great songs, great musicianship, they had an impact, and they're a huge influence on the heavy metal community as a whole.

Kirk Hammett

#72. There's more impact if you burn somebody with your eyes, look straight into him and let him know with a look.

Dennis Rodman

#73. When you're a big enough part of the process that the Writers Guild gives you a lot of credit, that's a good thing. It tells me that I've had a significant impact on the film as a writer.

Harold Ramis

#74. We were placed on earth to fulfil a purpose, and that purpose is what gives meaning to our lives, you were sent to the world to make an impact and make a difference

Myles Munroe

#75. In 2007, researchers at the University of Bordeaux discovered that sugar has a bigger impact than hard drugs in the brain, The Health Science Academy publishes: Their experiments showed that refined sugar is 4 times more addictive than cocaine!

Tony Milton

#76. I have not fully had the opportunity to evaluate the impact of cameras in the courtroom.

Lance Ito

#77. Creativity can impact some sort of "CHANGE" in the WORLD. But we must first embrace pure "DIFFERENCES" and work together for a common cause.

Henry Johnson Jr

#78. I grew up in a tradition where having ideas and contributing to the community and creating art that had an impact on the world mattered. That's part of the Jewish tradition.

Eve Ensler

#79. We've seen how grassroots journalism by blogs has had an impact at various points politically, as ordinary people have amplified stories that were being ignored by the traditional press.

Jimmy Wales

#80. Cience-based popular education can have an enormous impact on politics.

Carl Phillips

#81. Then came the choreography ... the impact of music and choreography tends to really emphasize an overall feeling of what you really want out of the program.

Peggy Fleming

#82. The area of climate change has a dramatic impact on national security.

Leon Panetta

#83. Stop costly new regulations that would increase unemployment, raise consumer prices, and weaken the nation's global competitiveness with virtually no impact on global temperatures.

Newt Gingrich

#84. Goodwill and reputation are intangibles, but they are the keys to business success. Since they are also inexorably linked to social values, it follows that a change in social norms will have a significant impact on profits.

Noreena Hertz

#85. I can remember when 'Pulp Fiction' came out. I was, like, 10 years old. But I remember the impact that it had.

Mary Elizabeth Winstead

#86. I think that every time you bring a subject into the mainstream landscape of television, it can have a huge impact. Television is such an influential medium.

Sherri Saum

#87. How I say it has as much of an impact on what people think of me as what I say.

Frank Luntz

#88. I can't pick out one single book that had such a profound personal impact.

Louise Brown

#89. I'm able to impact kids' lives, I'm able to give back and I will impact so many kids' lives because I feel like that moment taught me that no matter where you are in life, no matter what you may want in life you keep going.

La'el Collins

#90. What goes on in Europe concerns us greatly because, if Europe comes apart, the E.U. comes apart, then you're going to have enormous impact on America, that's a very big trading partner of ours, and people own securities around the world in this day and age.

Michael Bloomberg

#91. Facebook was a very big mission; it really knocked it out of the universe. It's pretty hard to focus on a small idea after that. You really have to be working on something that you believe will be of similar impact.

Dustin Moskovitz

#92. Living in South Africa has had a very profound impact on my career.

Gail Kelly

#93. You have incredible potential. At your birth, you were loaded with everything you need to make an impact on the world.

Pedro Okoro

#94. Get around people who have something of value to share with you. Their impact will continue to have a significant effect on your life long after they have departed.

Jim Rohn

#95. I believe in 'business has a force for good.' You know, business has an impact on society. Of course, it creates jobs. It creates prosperity, but on the other hand, we also leave a negative footprint behind.

Jochen Zeitz

#96. Impact sourcing, a new initiative piloted by the Rockefeller Foundation and several key partners, including my company Samasource, promises to connect poor and marginalized people to digital jobs on a massive scale.

Leila Janah

#97. Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people, brings happiness.

Harold Kushner

#98. You can gauge the limitations of a person's life by the size of the problems that get him or her down. You can measure the impact a person's life has by the size of the problems he or she solves.

Jeff Olson

#99. I have long been a supporter of the Head Start program because each and every year I witness the dramatic positive impact that early intervention services have on children's lives in my congressional district.

Lucille Roybal-Allard

#100. He had held out shakily, like a tree that had been hacked down to its breaking point. But that kiss was the last swing, the final impact, and he gave in finally, felled.

Sarah Blakley-Cartwright