Impact Quotes - Page 39

• When a company creates a product that directly or indirectly adversely impacts the health of people, that product must be regulated. The process by which its created must be regulated. No company has the right to injure people. No company.

  Kenneth C. Griffin

  People, Process, Company

  "HEDGE-FUND GOD KEN GRIFFIN: Our Government Is Ruining Our Country--That's Why I'm Giving Millions To Mitt Romney And The Koch Brothers" by Melissa Harris, www.businessinsider.com. March 10, 2012.

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• This idea that the open exchange of information can have a positive global impact is being proven over and over again around the world nearly on a daily basis - and for Secretary Clinton to recognize that, I think, is a huge step.

  Biz Stone

  Thinking, Ideas, Information

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• It is in this space of mastery over paradigms that people throw off addictions, live in constant joy, bring down empires, get locked up or burned at the stake or crucified or shot, and have impacts that last for millennia.

  Donella Meadows

  Space, People, Addiction

  Donella Meadows (2008). “Thinking in Systems: A Primer”, p.165, Chelsea Green Publishing

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• Its obvious nonsense, but it makes nice people feel good about themselves to do their bit for the planet. Its vanity of a grotesque kind to believe that mankind, and our carbon footprint, has more impact on the future of Earth than Nature, which bends our planet to its will, as it sees fit.

  Charles Saatchi

  Nice, Believe, Vanity

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• I know that God gave me the blessing to use, to bring honor and glory to Him, and to use to impact the lives of people.

  Lee Haney

  Blessing, People, Honor

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• So much for the right books; the right use of them is another matter. The children must enjoy the book. The ideas it holds must each make that sudden, delightful impact upon their minds, must cause that intellectual stir, which mark the inception of an idea.

  Charlotte Mason

  Children, Book, Ideas

  Charlotte Mason (2013). “School Education”, p.141, Simon and Schuster

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• If we overregulate, over control, impose too many burdens and too much bureaucracy - or if we do it across the board, without taking into account the differences among businesses and their relative impact on society - that could make people risk-averse and dampen the entrepreneurial spirit.

  Samuel J. Palmisano

  Differences, People, Risk

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• With approximately 75 per cent of our rubbish generated by packaging, a few simple steps - buying loose fruit and veg, choosing products with recyclable packaging, and avoiding individually wrapped portions - can have a big impact.

  Sheherazade Goldsmith

  Simple, Buying, Rubbish

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• Over the years, the diamond industry has had a devastating impact in countries such as Sierra Leone, Angola and the Congo, where profits from the sale of diamonds have been used to fund brutal wars, with disastrous effects on local communities.

  Sheherazade Goldsmith

  Country, War, Years

  "Green Scene: Pop the Right Questions". www.dailymail.co.uk. February 07, 2009.

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• Social-impact partnerships address our moral responsibilities to ensure that social programs actually improve recipients lives, and to do so in a fiscally prudent manner.

  Todd Young

  Responsibility, Addresses, Prudent

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• If you can make a big impact on the global literacy problem, you can uplift a big portion of society.

  Peter Diamandis

  Uplifting, Problem, Literacy

  "A decade to mass extinction event in S&P 500". Interview with Lori Ioannou, www.cnbc.com. June 5, 2014.

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• Sooner or later, you will see a China-based company that really has a global impact, and I think Baidu has a chance to become one of those companies. We should be able to compete on a global basis.

  Robin Li

  Thinking, Able, Chance

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• Although it is still important to develop an HIV vaccine, we have significant tools already at our disposal that can make a major impact on the trajectory of this epidemic.

  Anthony S. Fauci

  Vaccines, Epidemics, Important

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• Corporate tax dodging impacts us across generations and over time. It is corrosive. It is unethical. It is unsustainable.

  James P. Hoffa

  Generations, Taxes, Unethical

  "Tax Dodging by Big Businesses Hurts Our Kids and Is Not Sustainable" by James P. Hoffa, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 28, 2014.

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• We've always believed that popular culture and populist politics go hand in hand. It's an honor to be working with so many respected and influential artists, and we're indebted to them for having the courage to speak out at a time when our country so desperately needs change. For our 2.5 million members and far beyond, the Vote for Change tour will have a seismic cultural impact.

  Eli Pariser

  Country, Artist, Hands

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• It is so important that our lives are built not on our feelings or circumstances, but on the word of God, and songs can really help us to meditate on and retain truth. I know from the correspondence I regularly receive that if you can express in songs the profound truth of the gospel in a poetic yet accessible way, they really can have an impact in people's lives.

  Stuart Townend

  Song, People, Profound

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• Fiction has subversive potential. People let it into their minds, like the Trojan Horse. They don't know what's inside. You hook them with the story, and God can work below the level of their consciousness. Fiction can be propaganda for evil or convey a theme that impacts people for good.

  Randy Alcorn

  Horse, Evil, People

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• During my eleven years as a New York City public school teacher, I saw firsthand the impact that poverty has on the classroom. In low-income neighborhoods like Sunset Park, where I taught, students as young as five years old enter school affected by the stresses often created by poverty: domestic violence, drug abuse, gang activity.

  Sal Albanese

  Teacher, New York, Stress

  "Education’s Elephant in the Room: Poverty" by Sal F. Albanese, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 10, 2013.

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• Together we can decrease the level of violence, raise awareness of our activities and save lives around the world. The impact of a day of global ceasefire and non-violence cannot be underestimated.

  Jeremy Gilley

  Together We Can, World, Levels

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• When you're a hammer (as the saying goes), all your problems look like nails. If you're a meteorite expert pondering the sudden extinction of boatloads of species, you'll want to say an impact did it. If you're an igneous petrologist, volcanoes did it. If you're into spaceborne bioclouds, an interstellar virus did it. If you're a hypernova expert, gamma rays did it.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Volcanoes, Rays, Viruses

  Neil deGrasse Tyson (2007). “Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries”, p.281, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I have lived the American dream in every aspect, and now I hope to make a very big impact in helping the planet.

  Hollis Stacy

  Dream, Helping, Bigs

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• I know at first hand how the impact of being bullied as a teenager can quite literally last a lifetime and I thought that if we could involve well known ISPCC ambassadors perhaps people will think twice about bullying or indeed allowing bullying to happen.

  Mark Feehily

  Bullying, Teenager, Thinking

  "Jedward look battered and bruised in anti-bullying campaign". www.mirror.co.uk. August 8, 2011.

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• There's no accepted global policy on what to do about asteroid impacts.

  Rusty Schweickart

  Asteroids, Accepted, Policy

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• Among Hindu groups, none has made as great an impact on America as the Vedanta Society.

  J. Gordon Melton

  America, Groups, Made

  J. Gordon Melton (1978). “The Encyclopedia of American Religions”

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• If you don't connect yourself to your family and to the world in some fashion, through your job or whatever it is you do, you feel like you're disappearing, you feel like you're fading away, you know? I felt like that for a very very long time. Growing up, I felt like that a lot. I was just invisible; an invisible person. I think that feeling, wherever it appears, and I grew up around people who felt that way, it's an enormous source of pain; the struggle to make yourself felt and visible. To have some impact, and to create meaning for yourself, and for the people you come in touch with.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Fashion, Jobs, Growing Up

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