Impact Quotes - Page 31

• I can say unequivocally that the boycott does not work. It's never complete enough to have impact unless it's backed by force, and I don't think anybody in America seriously proposes that.

  Helen Suzman

  Thinking, America, Doe

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• I am not an angry guy. It's just the roles I do that impact my personality.

  Randeep Hooda

  Personality, Guy, Roles

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• I made a very conscious effort to finish 'The Cypress House' before 'So Cold the River' launched, because I thought that would help build a buffer between my writing and any impact that came from either the success or the failure of that first book.

  Michael Koryta

  Book, Writing, Rivers

  "Born Storyteller: An Interview With Michael Koryta, Author of So Cold the River". Interview with Jason Pinter, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 8, 2010.

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• Disasters such as earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanoes, floods, oil spills and radioactive fallout cause massive death of people, pigs, bats and birds. These disasters also impact the immune health of survivors. All harbor viruses.

  Paul Stamets

  Volcanoes, Pigs, Earthquakes

  "Agarikon: Ancient Mushroom for Modern Medicine" by Paul Stamets, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 15, 2012.

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• The foolishness of the cross is the wisdom of God and the wisdom of God is powerful in its impact.

  Alistair Begg

  Powerful, Crosses, Foolishness

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• The impact of any particular writer on your own work is hard to discern.

  Daniel Alarcon

  Particular, Hard

  "The Exchange: Daniel Alarcón". Interview with Thessaly La Force, www.newyorker.com. May 5, 2009.

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• I realized that influence was inextricably linked to impact — the more influence you had, the more impact you could create. . . . The ability to make things go viral felt like the closest that we could get to having a human superpower.

  Emerson Spartz

  Influence, Viral, Ability

  "The Virologist" by Andrew Marantz, www.newyorker.com. January 5, 2015.

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• Delirious as it can be, sex is only one kind of intimacy, and yet has become the cultural catchment area for all kinds of needs because our understanding of intimacy is so poor. Brutal work schedules, related geographic isolation, and the concomitant fracturing of families has meant that there is little time for intimacy, and even less to teach the necessary skills. But intimacy, the axis of romance, is slow, based on the sharing of a life rather than show. In terms of intimacy, folding laundry together or sharing the feeding of a child can have more impact than the most extravagant bouquet.

  Antonella Gambotto-Burke

  Sex, Children, Axes

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• At Planned Parenthood, we see the impact of abortion stigma firsthand, in the women who delay getting reproductive health care because they fear they’ll be labeled and judged. We see the effect of stigma on doctors, health center staffers, and others who help provide abortion services. And we see the impact in laws that regulate and restrict abortion in ways that would never happen with any other medical procedure.

  Cecile Richards

  Doctors, Law, Abortion

  "Ending the Silence That Fuels Abortion Stigma" by Cecile Richards, www.elle.com. October 16, 2014.

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• Great philosophers become immortal - they make undeniable impacts on culture.

  Criss Jami

  Culture, Philosopher, Immortal

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.65, Criss Jami

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• Using SROI to explore the value of our online question and answer service, askTheSite, helped us develop new mechanisms for speaking to young people and gain a real insight into the impact of our work. The project enabled us to demonstrate YouthNets commitment to robust impact measurement as well as our commercial approach to project evaluation. Perhaps most importantly, being able to assign a monetary value to askTheSite has enabled YouthNet to convey to current and potential funders how valuable the service is for both young people and the wider society in a language that they understand

  Sarah McCoy

  Real, Commitment, People

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• If we knew we were not alone in the universe it would have a very, very deep impact on our worldview, on our understanding of our place in the universe.

  Paul Davies

  Understanding, Very Deep, Worldview

  "Big Think Interview With Paul Davies". Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. April 15, 2010.

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• I'd say that, in addition to actually taking my brother and sister and I camping and hiking and river rafting all our lives and introducing us to the power of natural landscapes, his [my father's] biggest impact on my thinking has been to always argue that the "spiritual case for Nature" was not going to outweigh the needs of 7 billion people and to insist that law, science and economics were the critical frameworks through which we had to defend the value of nature.

  Edward Norton

  Spiritual, Brother, Father

  "Dialogues on the Environment: Q&A With Edward Norton". Interview with Mark Tercek, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 6, 2013.

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• This is why I turned down multiple $Million Dollar Offers for my website. Because the positive impact you have in other lives is more important than a quick cash out.

  Joel Brown

  Important, Dollars, Cash

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• Wherever an impact can be eliminated by dropping the activity that causes it, this is therefore the best-indeed the only truly good-solution.

  Peter Drucker

  Causes, Dropping, Activity

  Peter Drucker (2012). “Management”, p.269, Routledge

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• The only engine big enough to impact Mother Nature is Father Greed.

  Thomas Friedman

  Mother, Father, Greed

  "Off to the Races". www.nytimes.com. December 19, 2009.

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• Do not deny the impact your life can have on others.

  Dave Dravecky

  Deny

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• Once in a very long time you come across a book that is far, far more than the ink, the glue and the paper, a book that seeps into your blood. With such a book the impact isn't necessarily obvious at first...but the more you read it and re-read it, and live with it, and travel with it, the more it speaks to you, and the more you realize that you cannot live without that book. It's then that the wisdom hidden inside, the seed, is passed on.

  Tahir Shah

  Book, Blood, Long

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• The only way to escape misrepresentation is never to commit oneself to any critical judgement that makes an impact - that is, never to say anything. I still, however think that the best way to promote profitable discussion is to be as clear as possible with oneself about what one sees and judges, to try and establish the essential discriminations in the given field of interest, and to state them as clearly as one can (for disagreement, if necessary).

  F. R. Leavis

  Thinking, Judging, Judgement

  1948 The Great Tradition, ch.1. Leavis, Q(ueenie) D(orothy) 1906-81 British literary critic.

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• The dreams of the past - whether it was public TV being rolled into the classroom to teach Spanish, or the film projectors or the videotapes or the computer-aided instruction drill systems - the hopes have been dashed in terms of technology having some big impact. The foundation, I think can play a unique role there. Now, our money is more to the teacher-effectiveness thing, and technology is No. 2, but I'll probably spend more money on the technology things.

  Bill Gates

  Dream, Teacher, Unique

  "Bill Gates Seeks Formula for Better Teachers". Interview with Stephanie Banchero, www.wsj.com. March 22, 2011.

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• I feel like when I stay focused on encouraging people, and giving them hope, and helping them live their everyday life, I think that's where I can have the most impact.

  Joel Osteen

  Thinking, People, Giving

  "Pastor Joel Osteen on 'FNS'". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. December 23, 2007.

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• We all know or have read about someone who has been burned on social media. We have taught our kids not to post pictures publicly that could impact their future, but we have not yet taught ourselves that texts, messages and social media posts could be used just as maliciously or with as much downside as pictures.

  Mark Cuban

  Kids, Media, Messages

  "5 Questions With Mark Cuban About Online Privacy". Interview with John P. David, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 17, 2014.

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• Artists and their subjects are the star-crossed lovers of the world. They recognize each other on impact.

  Sara Genn

  Stars, Artist, World

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• My work would have the impact of my unreality - my doubts.

  Joel-Peter Witkin

  Doubt, Unreality

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• 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

  Powerful, Blow, Fire

  Hermann von Helmholtz, David Cahan (1995). “Science and Culture: Popular and Philosophical Essays”, p.116, University of Chicago Press

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