Impact Quotes:

The artist never really has any control over the impact of his work. If he starts thinking about the impact of his work, then he becomes a lesser artist.

- Aasif Mandvi

topic: Artist, Thinking, Impact

In New York, the impact of these concentrated superskyscrapers on street scale and sunlight, on the city's aniquated support systems, circulation, and infrastructure, on its already tenuous livability, overrides any aesthetic. ... Art becomes worthless in a city brutalized by overdevelopment.

- Ada Louise Huxtable

source: Ada Louise Huxtable (1984). “The tall building artistically reconsidered: the search for a skyscraper style”, Pantheon

topic: Art, New York, Impact

Whittle was an amazing chap. Tiny, stubborn, unstoppable - jet-propelled! It's amazing the impact his invention has had upon the world.

- Adam Hart-Davis

topic: Impact, Stubborn, World

I would need to see changes in the Iraq governance. Otherwise I don't think strikes are going to have any impact and could be very well counterproductive.

- Adam Schiff

topic: Military, Thinking, Impact, Counterproductive

The fact that the same proportionalities rule optimal running, flying and swimming is not a coincidence rather it is an illustration of the fact that a universal principle is involved. Running requires the least food when during each cycle a certain amount of work is destroyed by vertical impact and a certain amount to horizontal friction. The same balancing act is responsible for optimal flight and swimming.

- Adrian Bejan

source: "Everybody's Doing the Locomotion". www.foxnews.com. December 30, 2005.

topic: Running, Swimming, Impact, Balancing Act, Proportionality

It's just a huge boost for us to have one extra playmaker on our defense. He makes so many impact plays and changes the game a lot.

- Adrian Wilson

topic: Impact, Games, Play

You know, I think there are certain words like 'illegitimate' that should not be used to describe a person. And certainly, we have come far enough in our technology that our language can evolve, because it has an impact.

- Aimee Mullins

topic: Technology, Thinking, Impact

The "patron saint" of Japanese quality control, ironically, is an American named W. Edwards Deming, who was virtually unknown in his own country until his ideas of quality control began to make such a big impact on Japanese companies.

- Akio Morita

source: "Made in Japan : Akio Morita and Sony" by Akio Morita, Edwin M. Reingold, Mitsuko Shimomura, (p. 165), 1986.

topic: Country, Ideas, Impact, Patron, Quality Control

Consider what kind of car you get. Buy cars and other products that have the least impact environmentally.

- Al Gore

topic: Impact, Car, Kind

I have not been part of an active counterculture movement, as it is not the approach that I have personally pursued to create a qualitatively beneficial and meaningful impact on society.

- Al Seckel

source: "An Interesting Walk Through Counterculture" by Al Seckel, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 2, 2009.

topic: Meaningful, Impact, Movement, Counterculture, Counter Culture

When I was twelve, the passage from silent film to the talkies had an impact on me-I still watch silent films. I don't think that there is any such thing as an old film; you don't say, 'I read an old book by Flaubert,' or 'I saw an old play by Moliere.'

- Alain Resnais

topic: Book, Thinking, Impact, Talkies, Silent Films

The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.

- Alan Hirsch

source: Michael Frost, Alan Hirsch (2011). “The Faith of Leap (Shapevine): Embracing a Theology of Risk, Adventure & Courage”, p.58, Baker Books

topic: Impact, Safety, Profound

How on earth can otherwise sensible people get so involved in a football game? You could measure the lasting impact on the lives of the people who played it at just about zero.

- Alan Page

topic: Football, Zero, Impact, Lasting Impact

In the burning and devastated cities, we daily experienced the direct impact of war. It spurred us to do our utmost...the bombing and the hardships that resulted from them (did not) weaken the morale of the populace.

- Albert Speer

source: "Inside the Third Reich: Memoirs" by Albert Speer, (p. 363), 1970.

topic: War, Impact, Cities, World War 2, Bombing

One Spirit Medicine opens the doors to the invisible matrix of wisdom where everything is intertwined, where every thought we have impacts every cell in our body and every molecule in the cosmos.

- Alberto Villoldo

topic: Impact, Doors, Cells, Intertwined

Conservation is getting nowhere because it is incompatible with our Abrahamic concept of land. We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect. There is no other way for land to survive the impact of mechanized man, nor for us to reap from it the aesthetic harvest it is capable, under science, of contributing to culture

- Aldo Leopold

topic: Men, Impact, Land, Land Conservation, Contributing

The thing about tourism is just that it's incredibly powerful. It's like a gun and it's incredibly easy to be irresponsible with it. And the speed of the impact that tourism can have on a place can be quite breathtaking. It doesn't take years, it takes months. That's how quickly it works. And it can be quite a bleak thing to witness.

- Alex Garland

topic: Powerful, Gun, Impact

No matter what you do, if you're trying to create something new, your environment has a massive impact on you.

- Alex Kapranos

source: Source: www.argusleader.com

topic: Impact, Trying, Matter

I really want it to have an impact on the world. I want to be in a town on the other side of the world, and somebody walks up and says, 'That music you made in Glasgow, I listened to it every day, and it moved me.

- Alex Kapranos

topic: Impact, World, Want, Glasgow, Impact On The World

Although they might not admit it, I think girls are very aware of the impact that they're having. But they never feel it themselves, and it's impossible to explain. It's like trying to tell a blind person what yellow is.

- Alex Kapranos

source: "Bringing Sexy Back". Interview with Scott Frampton, www.marieclaire.com. January 6, 2008.

topic: Girl, Thinking, Impact, Blind Person

For carbon-neutral cities, there are things worth talking about in how our consumption patterns can change - sharing goods, etc. - but those are a fraction of the impacts of transportation and building energy use. If we need to choose priority actions, the most important things are to densify, provide transit, and green the buildings.

- Alex Steffen

topic: Talking, Cities, Impact, Energy Use

My editor and I remain very disciplined. It's just sometimes when you're making a film, you get into the cutting room and you see a scene that's slowing you down in a certain section, but if you remove that scene then, emotionally or story-wise, another scene a half-hour later won't have the same impact. You just get stuck with it.

- Alexander Payne

topic: Wise, Cutting, Impact

If I had the opportunity, I would make the proposal that no man should be killed except by somebody who knows him well enough for the act to have impact. No death should be like nose blowing. Death is important enough that it should affect the person who causes it.

- Alexei Panshin

source: Alexei Panshin, Leo Dillon, Diane Dillon (1968). “Rite of passage”

topic: Opportunity, Men, Impact

Well, I tell young people to be successful today that, first of all, that what you learn today directly impacts what you earn tomorrow. This is a knowledge-based economy.

- Alexis Herman

topic: Successful, Impact, People

Transnational Corporations must be legally accountable for the negative human rights impacts of their activities.

- Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

topic: Impact, Rights, Negative

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

topic: War, Thinking, Impact

How we come into this world, how we are ushered in, met, and hopefully embraced upon arrival, impacts the whole of our time on earth.

- Alice Walker

topic: Impact, World, Earth, Our Time On Earth, Time On Earth

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

- Alistair Begg

topic: Powerful, Impact, Crosses

If we can develop and design streets so that they are wonderful, fulfilling places to be - community-building places, attractive for all people - then we will have successfully designed about one-third of the city directly and will have had an immense impact on the rest.

- Allan Jacobs

topic: Impact, Cities, People, Community Building

I represent the Port of Philadelphia, and I know firsthand the important role that ports play in the national and global economy. I have also seen how simple accidents can have devastating impacts on the port system.

- Allyson Schwartz

topic: Simple, Impact, Play

To survive, to avert what we have termed future shock, the individual must become infinitely more adaptable and capable than ever before. We must search out totally new ways to anchor ourselves, for all the old roots - religion, nation, community, family, or profession - are now shaking under the hurricane impact of the accelerative thrust. It is no longer resources that limit decisions, it is the decision that makes the resources.

- Alvin Toffler

topic: Impact, Anchors, Roots, Future Shock, Adaptable

Echo of your thoughts has greater impact on the world than your actions.

- Amit Ray

topic: Impact, Echoes, World, Impact On The World

I grew up as a Mormon, and that had more of an impact on my values than my beliefs. I'm afraid I will always feel the weight of a lie. I'm very hard on myself anyway. Religious guilt carries over too. You can't really misbehave without feeling badly about it. At least, I can't.

- Amy Adams

topic: Religious, Lying, Impact

Beyond the borders of wealthy countries like the United States, in developing countries where most people in the world live, the impacts of climate change are much more deadly, from the growing desertification of Africa to the threats of rising sea levels and the submersion of small island nations.

- Amy Goodman

source: Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan (2012). “The Silenced Majority: Stories of Uprisings, Occupations, Resistance, and Hope”, p.96, Haymarket Books

topic: Country, Impact, Islands, Developing Countries

CAFE standards have little impact on greenhouse gas emissions, and the environmental benefits of increasing CAFE standards are frequently overstated. Their impact on human health is more certain: CAFE standards have resulted in tens of thousands of deaths since their adoption.

- Amy Ridenour

topic: Impact, Adoption, Environmental, Human Health

How has The Grand Illusion held up over the years? It is not enough to say that it has retained its power. Not only has the stature of the film remained undiminished by the passage of time (except in a few minor details), but the innovation, the audacity, and, for want of a better word, the modernity of the direction have acquired an even greater impact.

- Andre Bazin

topic: Impact, Years, Innovation, Passage Of Time

When a woman earns a dollar, the payback is higher. She'll invest in her children, in their education, health care, and basic needs. The impact of a woman's role in the economy benefits society at large.

- Andrea Jung

topic: Children, Impact, Dollars, Payback, Women's Roles

While neurological studies have tried to identify components responsible for fear and greed, the impact on finance is less clear.

- Andrew Lo

topic: Impact, Greed, Study, Neurological Disorders

The impact of the Yemeni manuscripts is still to be felt. Their variant readings and verse orders are all very significant. Everybody agrees on that. These manuscripts say that the early history of the Koranic texts is much more of an open question than many have suspected: the text was less stable, and therefore had less authority, than has always been claimed.

- Andrew Rippin

topic: Reading, Impact, Order

The money was good while it lasted. The best part was clearly that it changed my view of what's possible, as far as thinking how you can have an impact on a national level.

- Andrew Shue

topic: Thinking, Impact, Views

Every man of character will have that character questioned. Every man of honor and courage will be faced with unjust criticism, but never forget that unjust criticism has no impact whatsoever upon the truth. And the only sure way to avoid criticism is to do nothing and be nothing.

- Andy Andrews

source: Andy Andrews (2005). “The Traveler's Gift: Seven Decisions that Determine Personal Success”, p.124, Thomas Nelson

topic: Character, Men, Impact, Unjust Criticism

Not even the apparently enlightened principle of the 'greatest good for the greatest number' can excuse indifference to individual suffering. There is no test for progress other than its impact on the individual.

- Aneurin Bevan

source: David A. Reisman, Aneurin Bevan (1996). “In Place of Fear”, Pickering & Chatto Publishers

topic: Impact, Numbers, Suffering

The more I've done work with the IOC the more I've come to realize I'm really excited about this, the work that I'm doing and the impact that I can have if I'm fully committed to it.

- Angela Ruggiero

topic: Impact, Done, Realizing

We're at unique point in history where the things that we are building are going to significantly impact our social, political, economical, and personal lives.

- Anita Borg

topic: Unique, Impact, Political

The way football is being played currently, that I have seen, it's dangerous. It's dangerous and it could impact their long-term mental health. You only get one brain.

- Ann McKee

topic: Football, Nfl, Impact, Being Played

Few things have more impact than nutrition on a child's ability to survive, learn effectively and escape a life of poverty.

- Ann Veneman

source: "25% of world's children underweight", www.theguardian.com. May 2, 2006.

topic: Children, Impact, Poverty

Its been studied to the point where we know that the impact on humans would be from consuming the most infected parts of the cow; that is, the brain and the spinal cord.

- Ann Veneman

topic: Impact, Brain, Would Be, Spinal Cord, Cords

The best images are the ones that retain their strength and impact over the years, regardless of the number of times they are viewed.

- Anne Geddes

topic: Photography, Impact, Years, Great Photography, Inspirational Photography

Just as the body goes into shock after a physical trauma, so does the human psyche go into shock after the impact of a major loss.

- Anne Grant

topic: Loss, Impact, Doe

There's nothing quite as powerful as people feeling they can have impact and make a difference. When you've got that going for you, I think it's a very powerful way to implement change.

- Anne M. Mulcahy

topic: Powerful, Thinking, Impact

Well I'm a very similar age to Prince Charles. I'm a year older than him. I was at university at the same time as him. I think in the sixties, like all the Royals, he really had very little impact on my life at all and he seemed, if anything a lot older in his attitudes.

- Anthony Holden

topic: Attitude, Thinking, Impact, Charles I

The world is a place that is so interconnected that what happens in another part of the world will impact us.

- Anthony S. Fauci

source: "Fauci: Despite 'AIDS fatigue,' Americans should care". CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. November 30, 2007.

topic: Impact, World, Interconnected

I believe I have a personal responsibility to make a positive impact on society.

- Anthony S. Fauci

topic: Believe, Responsibility, Impact, Positive Impact, Impact On Society

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

topic: Impact, Epidemics, Vaccines

It has not been definitively proved that the language of words is the best possible language. And it seems that on the stage, which is above all a space to fill and a place where something happens, the language of words may have to give way before a language of signs whose objective aspect is the one that has the most immediate impact upon us.

- Antonin Artaud

topic: Impact, Space, Giving

The work of volunteers impacts on all our lives, even if we are not aware of it.

- Antony Worrall Thompson

topic: Impact, Volunteer, Charity

One must go for a film with an open mind; a film best impacts you when your mind is a blank page to the film.

- Anurag Kashyap

topic: Impact, Mind, Pages

I have a scar on my left thigh, kind of almost near my knee. I essentially fell in the 2002 Olympics and when I hit the wall - because of the impact - my right leg kind of came in at like a knife-type angle and stabbed my leg with my own skate blade.

- Apolo Ohno

topic: Wall, Impact, Knives, Skates

The obsession with performance left no room for the development of the intuitive or spiritual impact of space and form other than the aesthetic of the machine itself.

- Arthur Erickson

topic: Spiritual, Impact, Space

A crusade is, simply put, something that's bigger than you are. It's a "cause" with an impact that reaches beyond your personal wants and needs.

- Arthur L. Williams, Jr.

topic: Impact, Needs, Purpose, Crusades, Wants And Needs

While fund performance is unpredictable, the impact of fees is not, .. A 1- percent annual fee will reduce an ending account balance by 17 percent after 20 years.

- Arthur Levitt Jr

topic: Impact, Years, Balance

Sure, there's a chunk of African-Americans out there who associate the Republican Party with racism, frankly particularly in the Deep South. It's an unfair perception, but it exists. Over a period time, that perception will die away if Republicans are focusing on issues that happen to impact African-Americans.

- Artur Davis

topic: Party, Issues, Impact

I'm very sensitive. I remember, as a kid at school, if someone in the classroom was sad or angry, it could have a great impact on me.

- Aurora Aksnes

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: School, Kids, Impact

When I'm going through something that has a big impact on my life, it's much easier to sing.

- Avril Lavigne

topic: Impact, Easier, Bigs, Big Impact

Charlie Christian had no more impact on my playing than Django Reinhardt or Lonnie Johnson. I just wanted to play like him. I wanted to play like all of them. All of these people were important to me. I couldn't play like any of them, though ...

- B. B. King

topic: Christian, Impact, Django

This is not some distant problem of the future. This is a problem that is affecting Americans right now. Whether it means increased flooding, greater vulnerability to drought, more severe wildfires - all these things are having an impact on Americans as we speak.

- Barack Obama

topic: Mean, Impact, Climate, Wildfires, Flooding

The Commission agrees that the federal government should help alleviate these costs. The best way to do so is to reduce illegal immigration.... We recommend immediate reimbursement of criminal justice costs, because these conditions can now be met, but we urge further study of the costs of health care and education before impact aid is provided.

- Barbara Jordan

topic: Impact, Government, Justice, Reimbursement

I hope that my painting has the impact of giving someone, as it did me, the feeling of his own totality, of his own separateness, of his own individuality.

- Barnett Newman

source: Barnett Newman, John Philip O'Neill (1992). “Barnett Newman: Selected Writings and Interviews”, p.21, Univ of California Press

topic: Impact, Giving, Feelings

World War II had a very important impact on the development of technology, as a whole.

- Barry Commoner

topic: War, Technology, Impact, Development Of Technology

Everything you say and do is having an impact on others.

- Barry Manilow

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Impact

Reviewing the literature on love I noticed how few writers, male or female, talk about the impact of patriarchy, the way in which male domination of women and children stands in the ways of love.

- Bell Hooks

topic: Children, Impact, Males, Way Of Love

The impact on the broader economy and financial markets of the problems in the subprime markets seems likely to be contained.

- Ben Bernanke

source: "Explaining FinReg: Shadow bank runs, or the problem behind the problem". voices.washingtonpost.com. June 20, 2007.

topic: Impact, Financial, Problem

Sorry, I said to myself, wondering how many times in my marriage I'd said that, how many times I'd meant it, how many times Claire had actually believed it, and, most important, how many times the utterance had any impact whatsoever on our dispute. What a lovely chart one could draw of this word Sorry.

- Ben Marcus

topic: Sorry, Impact, Lovely

When I say that terrorism is war against civilization, I may be met by the objection that terrorists are often idealists pursuing worthy ultimate aims -- national or regional independence, and so forth. I do not accept this argument. I cannot agree that a terrorist can ever be an idealist, or that the objects sought can ever justify terrorism. The impact of terrorism, not merely on individual nations, but on humanity as a whole, is intrinsically evil, necessarily evil and wholly evil.

- Benjamin Netanyahu

topic: War, Civilization, Impact

Unfortunately, WorldCom is not the only company caught up in this kind of accounting scandal. The impact this will have on the general public is yet to be seen.

- Bennie Thompson

topic: Business, Impact, Scandal

One may lack words to express the impact of beauty but no one who has felt it remains untouched. It is renewal, enlargement, intensification. The parks preserve it permanently in the inheritance of the American citizens.

- Bernard DeVoto

topic: Impact, Citizens, Inheritance

Nanotechnology in medicine is going to have a major impact on the survival of the human race.

- Bernard Marcus

topic: Impact, Race, Medicine, Nanotechnology

Personally I discovered that you could go through the academy as a young scholar, come out, and almost immediately have an impact on the academic environment.

- Bernice Johnson Reagon

topic: Impact, Environment, Academic

My path to victory is to talk about the issues that impact the lives of millions of Americans.

- Bernie Sanders

source: Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

topic: Impact, Issues, Victory

If history is any indication, we should assume that any technology that is going to have a significant impact over the next 10 years is already 10 years old!

- Bill Buxton

topic: Technology, Impact, Years

The act of giving is simply a behavior, and the gift merely a symbol. It is the energy behind both that will determine their impact on our lives.

- Bill Crawford

topic: Impact, Giving, Energy

Every child must master empathy-based ethics because the rules are changing; the less they apply the less learning them has positive impact

- Bill Drayton

topic: Children, Impact, Empathy

Social obligation is much bigger than supporting worthy causes. It includes anything that impacts people and the quality of their lives .

- Bill Ford

topic: Inspiring, Impact, People, Social Obligation, Worthy Causes

At this time, the only thing that would get me back in the ring is something that would positively impact those in need. If selling out another major event would allow me to bring a ship full of supplies to hand out to those in need, I'd say that would be very significant.

- Bill Goldberg

topic: Impact, Hands, Events, Selling Out, Those In Need

Having no room of my own to "take care of things" had begun to weigh on me. I wondered if storing up ***** would have a health impact on me, positive or negative, like shinier hair or weight gain.

- Bill Konigsberg

source: Bill Konigsberg (2013). “Openly Straight”, p.145, Scholastic Inc.

topic: Impact, Hair, Negative, Weighing, Caring Too Much

When you lose your hair, it has an impact on confidence and your overall self-esteem whether it affects your career or your love life.

- Bill Rancic

topic: Self Esteem, Love Life, Impact

I always wanted to create a site that was sports and pop culture. '30 for 30 had a big impact because I loved how that was about finding, empowering and working with these incredible directors, and I thought the same thing could work for writers.

- Bill Simmons

source: "ESPN's Bill Simmons on His Mini-Empire, Why Hollywood 'Sucks' and Why He Won't Write about Sandusky (Q&A)". Interview with Lacey Rose, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 22, 2011.

topic: Sports, Impact, Empowering, Big Impact

As with nearly all proposed development standards, the goal is to encourage efficient land use, flexibility and a wide variety of housing types while reducing the potential for negative impacts.

- Bill Vaughan

topic: Impact, Land, Goal, Land Use

A coach will impact more people in one year than the average person will in an entire lifetime.

- Billy Graham

topic: Impact, Average, Years

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

topic: Thinking, Ideas, Impact

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

topic: Impact, Years, Culture, Sales Person

I like doing research that has an impact. If I went to a company to make what they call 'real money,' I'd be just trying to make a system work as fast as possible to meet the product and serice deadlines.

- Bjarne Stroustrup

topic: Real, Impact, Trying

There is no question that global warming will have a significant impact on already existing problems such as malaria, malnutrition, and water shortages. But this doesn't mean the best way to solve them is to cut carbon emissions.

- Bjorn Lomborg

source: "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

topic: Mean, Cutting, Impact, Malnutrition, Carbon Dioxide Emissions

It's not those who write the laws that have the greatest impact on society. It's those who write the songs.

- Blaise Pascal

topic: Song, Writing, Impact, Impact On Society

SDN is a major shift in the networking industry. At Juniper, we think the impact of SDN will be much broader than others have suggested. It will redefine networking and create new winners and losers. We're embracing SDN with clearly defined principles, a four-step roadmap to help customers adopt SDN within their business, and the networking industry's first comprehensive software-centric business model. We're incredibly excited about the value that SDN will deliver to our customers and are committed to leading the industry through this transition.

- Bob Muglia

topic: Thinking, Impact, Principles

The fear of making a decision is the result of fearing to make a mistake - the truth is, the fear of mistakes has a greater impact on you than making the mistakes.

- Bob Proctor

source: FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Oct 20, 2013

topic: Mistake, Impact, Decision

I think journalism is a great way to do public service, to have an impact on your community.

- Bob Schieffer

topic: Thinking, Impact, Community

There may yet be another Watergate book. I have thought a book about the aftermath of Watergate and its impact could be done, perhaps by me or someone else.

- Bob Woodward

topic: Book, Impact, Aftermath

For me, philanthropic return on investment is about making the biggest impact possible on fellow human beings, regardless of country, race or religion.

- Bobby Sager

topic: Country, Impact, Race, Return On Investment

The support of organizations including the NY Jets, Canon USA, USA Football, and Outback Steakhouse is a great example of how corporate America can make an impact in bettering the communities where employees work and live.

- Boomer Esiason

topic: Football, Impact, Usa, Corporate America

When I see my own people going through the tough times, it's a wake-up call. I hope my influence can impact someone else's decision to get out here and vote.

- Bow Wow

topic: Impact, People, Tough Times, Wake Up Call

The purpose of God's blessing is to enable you to be a great channel of blessing to others. If you have nothing, there is nothing you can do for anyone else; if you have a little, you can only help a little; but if you have plenty, there is a whole lot you can do. When you are blessed, you have a mighty foundation from which to impact others. You are blessed to be a blessing.

- Brian Houston

source: Brian Houston (2013). “How To Maxmise Your Life”, p.20, Hillsong Music Australia

topic: Blessed, Blessing, Impact, Purpose Of God, Blessing To Others

We wanted to hear from viewers about why they watch or participate in call-ins on C-SPAN, ... Viewers of all ages and walks of life wrote to us, including actresses, stand-up comics, parents and students. What's clear after reading the entries is the impact that call-ins have had on the political conversation on the network.

- Brian Lamb

topic: Reading, Impact, Parent

What one skill, if you developed it, could have the greatest positive impact on your career? This is the key to your future.

- Brian Tracy

topic: Impact, Keys, Skills, Positive Impact

Everything you do to improve your physical well-being will have a positive impact on how good you feel about yourself.

- Brian Tracy

topic: Impact, About Yourself, Well Being, Positive Impact

Your ability to select your most important task at each moment, and then to get started on that task and to get it done both quickly and well, will probably have more of an impact on your success than any other quality or skill you can develop.

- Brian Tracy

topic: Impact, Skills, Priorities

People need to realize bullying has just as much of an impact online because words are so cutting and difficult to deal with.

- Bridgit Mendler

source: "Ariana, Bridgit, and Kat Delete Digital Drama". www.seventeen.com. February 26, 2013.

topic: Bullying, Cutting, Impact

The complexity of C++ (even more complexity has been added in the new C++), and the resulting impact on productivity, is no longer justified. All the hoops that the C++ programmer had to jump through in order to use a C-compatible language make no sense anymore - they're just a waste of time and effort. Now, Go makes much more sense for the class of problems that C++ was originally intended to solve.

- Bruce Eckel

source: "Calling Go from Python via JSON-RPC". www.artima.com. August 27, 2011.

topic: Class, Impact, Order, Compatible

Remember that as a vegan, you save dozens of animals every year from the horrors of factory farms, which is great. And when you convince one person to also become vegan, in that moment you double your lifetime impact as a vegan! That's power - and we should use it as effectively as possible. Check out the 'Be a better advocate' videos and essays at www.FarmSanctuary.org.

- Bruce Friedrich

topic: Animal, Impact, Years

The 'secret of life' is BELIEF. Rather than genes, it is our beliefs that control our lives. PSYCH-K is a set of simple, self-empowering techniques to change your beliefs and perceptions that impact your life at a cellular level.

- Bruce H. Lipton

topic: Psych, Simple, Impact, Cellular, Self Empowering

I was blessed with certain gifts and talents and God gave them to me to be the best person I can be and to have a positive impact on other people.

- Bryan Clay

topic: Blessed, Impact, People, Lasting Impact, Gifts And Talents

I think the Cosmic Psychos were a band that was highly influential on the Seattle so called grunge scene. I know that Kurt and Nirvana were fans, they played shows with Pearl Jam. Even thou the Cosmic Psychos never had the commercial impact or success that those bands had, they were still a major influence on them, and I think a lot of it had to do with the spirit and the sound of their music.

- Butch Vig

source: "Cosmic Psychos: Blokes You Can Trust". Music, www.imdb.com. 2013.

topic: Thinking, Impact, Sound, Grunge, Seattle

We live in a cultural milieu ... The idea that culture is our ecological niche is still applicable. The impact and force of natural selection on the human physique are conditioned by the dimensions of culture.

- C. Loring Brace

topic: Impact, Ideas, Culture, Physique, Milieu

The most precious gift that marriage gave me was the constant impact of something very close and intimate, yet all the time unmistakably other, resistant - in a word, real.

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Marriage, Real, Impact, Inspirational Marriage, Closeness

How we look - though it is superficial and immutable - has a huge impact on our lives.

- Cameron Russell

source: "Looks aren't everything. Believe me, I'm a model". TED Talks, www.ted.com. October 2012.

topic: Impact, Looks, Superficial

Ego gets you inches but it doesn't get you impact.

- Cameron Sinclair

source: "A Conversation With Cameron Sinclair, CEO of Architecture for Humanity". Interview with Daniel Fromson, www.theatlantic.com. March 21, 2011.

topic: Impact, Ego, Inches

When your focus is social change and not financial change why wouldn't you want to share that openly? Innovation only succeeds when it's shared. If you're a pioneer and you come up with something that can change the world and you turn round and say 'I'm not going to share this idea with anyone' then you only impact the few and not the many.

- Cameron Sinclair

topic: Impact, Ideas, Focus

A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy.

- Camille Paglia

topic: Impact, Media, America, Mass Media, Leftists

When a decision is made to go to war based on intelligence, it is a fateful decision. It has ramifications and impacts way beyond the current months and years

- Carl Levin

topic: War, Impact, Years, Ramifications

[About reading Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, age 14, in the back seat of his parents' sedan. I almost threw up. I got physically ill when I learned that ospreys and peregrine falcons weren't raising chicks because of what people were spraying on bugs at their farms and lawns. This was the first time I learned that humans could impact the environment with chemicals. [That a corporation would create a product that didn't operate as advertised] was shocking in a way we weren't inured to.

- Carl Safina

topic: Spring, Reading, Impact, Shocking, Ospreys

Who are we, if not measured by our impact on others?

- Carl Sagan

topic: Impact

The impact of television on our culture is just indescribable.

- Carl Sandburg

topic: Impact, Culture, Television

The impact of television on our culture is. . . indescribable. There's a certain sense in which it is nearly as important as the invention of printing.

- Carl Sandburg

topic: Impact, Important, Culture

Good is somebody who delivered and allowed the company to overcome obstacles, without leaving a profound impact on its culture. Great is somebody who leads his company to achievements and performance and value that nobody was expecting it had.

- Carlos Ghosn

topic: Impact, Profound, Achievement

While women across the globe have many differences - language, culture, environment - our similarities are undeniable, and the impact of abuse and oppression affects us all.

- Carre Otis

topic: Differences, Impact, Abuse, Language Culture

Every entrepreneur faces trade-offs when founding and growing their company. As we discovered at YouTube, those early decisions have far-reaching impacts and lead to unforeseen pitfalls down the road. Noam Wasserman uses vivid anecdotes and deep research to expertly outline the key early choices that define a startup, making The Founder's Dilemmas an invaluable alternative to real-world trial and error.

- Chad Hurley

topic: Real, Impact, Errors, Real World, Unforeseen

Every personal experience of my life impacts my music. I can only give what I have. And when I receive, I give it back. I often fix it or color it differently or give it in my way, but thats what its about.

- Chaka Khan

source: Source: www.today.com

topic: Impact, Color, Giving

Every personal experience of my life impacts my music.

- Chaka Khan

topic: Impact

The Upton Sinclair of today's global economy is Charles Kernaghan, the New York based muckraker most famous for his expose of sweatshops producing the Kathie Lee Gifford line of clothing for Wal-Mart.... The Institute for Global Labour and Human Rights... has been a leader in exposing sweatshops, mounting corporate campaigns, and fighting for the rights of vulnerable workers.

- Charles Derber

topic: New York, Fighting, Impact, Sweatshops

For much of this decade, both Congressional and administration budget projections showed a decline in science and technology accounts of between 20 and 30 percent in real dollars. The real impact to date has been far less severe.

- Charles M. Vest

source: "An Interview with MIT President Charles M. Vest". news.mit.edu. December 10, 1997.

topic: Real, Technology, Impact

The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life.

- Charles R. Swindoll

topic: Attitude, Impact, Realizing, Some People Never Change, My Attitude

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

topic: Nice, Believe, Impact, Nice People, Carbon Footprint

The violence for me is never meant to be entertaining. It's meant to hurt the characters and I'm trying to show the impact it is having on the people involved with it. If there is cathartic violence at the end, then it costs the protagonist something. It's not just a blaze-of-glory moment.

- Charlie Huston

topic: Hurt, Character, Impact

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

topic: Children, Book, Impact, Inception

In the latter half of the last century the impact of the expanding influence of Western culture and economic system brought about in China a severe conflict.

- Chen-Ning Yang

source: Chen Ning Yang (2005). “Selected Papers, 1945-1980, with Commentary”, p.247, World Scientific

topic: Impact, Western Culture, Half, Economic Systems

Great leaders help their people see how they can directly impact the company's objectives and their own personal goals.

- Chip Conley

source: "Mastering the Anxiety Equation: A Remedy for Fearful Times" by Chip Conley, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 18, 2011.

topic: Impact, People, Goal, Personal Goal

The visual impact of the stupa on the observer brings a direct experience of inherent wakefulness and dignity. Stupas continue to be built because of their ability to liberate one simply upon seeing their structure

- Chogyam Trungpa

topic: Impact, Dignity, Structure

As with much of the world's problems, they become public--or much more of interest--the moment they begin to impact the West.

- Chris Abani

topic: Impact, World, West

Like my colleagues, I did about 10 to 15 town hall meetings on this issue; and what I found is people came with a sincere interest to learn, a sincere interest to cut through the rhetoric and understand how this Medicare bill impacts them in their daily lives.

- Chris Chocola

topic: Cutting, Impact, Issues

Climate is not responding to greenhouse gases in the way we thought it might. If increasing carbon dioxide is in fact increasing climate change, its impact is smaller than natural variation. People are being misled by people making money out of this.

- Chris de Freitas

topic: Impact, People, Climate, Misled, Greenhouse Gases

In any new situation, whether it involves an elevator or a rocket ship, you will almost certainly be viewed in one of three ways. As a minus one: actively harmful, someone who creates problems. Or as a zero: your impact is neutral and doesn't tip the balance one way or the other. Or you'll be seen as a plus one: someone who actively adds value. Everyone wants to be a plus one, of course. But proclaiming your plus-oneness at the outset almost guarantees you'll be perceived as a minus one, regardless of the skills you bring to the table or how you actually perform.

- Chris Hadfield

topic: Zero, Impact, Skills, Proclaiming, Three Ways

If you want to have world peace - peace in your family, peace in your town and peace in your own bedroom - you simply begin with whatever creates peace within yourself. This vibration will go out from you in waves, and these waves have a very positive impact on the world.

- Christiane Northrup

source: FaceBook post by Dr. Christiane Northrup from Feb 25, 2010

topic: Law Of Attraction, Impact, World, Our Town, Positive Impact

Recent research suggests that New Deal programs may actually have had their primary impact on the economy by influencing consumer and business expectations of future growth and inflation.

- Christina Romer

topic: Impact, Expectations, Growth, Future Growth

Tax increases appear to have a very large sustained and highly significant negative impact on output. Since most of our exogenous tax changes are in fact reductions, the more intuitive way to express this result is that tax cuts have very large and persistent positive output effects

- Christina Romer

topic: Cutting, Impact, Negative, Tax Increases

Tax increases appear to have a very large sustained and highly significant negative impact on output.

- Christina Romer

topic: Impact, Negative, Significant

As you give God your time, your gifts, your resources and talents, He will use them to have a critically important and eternal impact on this world.

- Christine Caine

topic: God, Christian, Impact

Renewable biofuels are meanwhile making inroads in the transportation fuels market and are beginning to have a measurable impact on demand for petroleum fuels, contributing to a decline in oil consumption in the United States in particular starting in 2006... The 93 billion liters of biofuels produced worldwide in 2009 displaced the equivalent of an estimated 68 billion liters of gasoline, equal to about 5 percent of world gasoline production.

- Christopher Flavin

topic: Impact, Oil, United States, Oil Consumption, Biofuels

While we very much regret the impact this will have on certain employees, we must adjust our production capacity to the reality of current business conditions and reduce costs to improve overall financial performance.

- Christopher Galvin

topic: Regret, Reality, Impact

The chasm between the beauty and seriousness of the work, and what it has become, has overwhelmed me. The commercialization has reduced the aesthetic and philosophical impact of the creation to nothing. There is only one solution for me: to turn my head away.

- Christopher Tolkien

source: "Why JRR Tolkien's Son Hates What Peter Jackson Has Done" by Devin Faraci, Birth.Movies.Death, birthmoviesdeath.com. January 9, 2013.

topic: Philosophical, Impact, Overwhelmed, Commercialization

It has become apparent that art can have a startling impact without really being or saying anything startling — or new. The character itself of being startling, spectacular, or upsetting has become conventionalized, part of safe good taste.

- Clement Greenberg

source: Clement Greenberg (1969). “Avant-garde Attitudes: New Art in the Sixties”

topic: Art, Character, Impact

I think feminism has had a major impact on anthropology

- Clifford Geertz

topic: Thinking, Impact, Feminism, Anthropology, Anthropologists

If you approach a film with the feeling that you are going to have some impact on society then you're liable to get carried away with yourself. Alfred Hitchcock once told me, when I was analyzing a lot of things about his pictures, "Clint, you must remember, it's only a movie.

- Clint Eastwood

topic: Impact, Feelings, Analyzing, Hitchcock, Impact On Society

Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.

- Confucius

topic: Wise, Philosophical, Impact, Wise Chinese, Chinese Philosopher

It took a while for me to grasp that my colleagues believe I have made an impact on the history of cinema.

- Conrad Hall

topic: Believe, Impact, Cinema

When I went out on tour as Bing Hitler I would hook up with Lenny and we'd get drunk together. He was always very supportive. He was a big star and a lot of what he said to me had power and impact. Apart from that, I just like him.

- Craig Ferguson

topic: Stars, Impact, Drunk, Hook Up

It is my belief that the basic knowledge that we're providing to the world will have a profound impact on the human condition and the treatments for disease and our view of our place on the biological continuum.

- Craig Venter

source: "Genome announcement a milestone, but only a beginning". www.cnn.com. June 26, 2000.

topic: Impact, Views, Profound

Seemingly minor yet persistent things penetrate the mind over time making it difficult to ever realize the impact; hence, though quite unfortunate, the most dangerous forms of corruption are those that are subtle and below the radar.

- Criss Jami

topic: Impact, Mind, Realizing, Radar

There's a better scientific consensus on this than on any issue I know - except maybe Newton's second law of dynamics...Man has reached the point where his impact on the climate can be as significant as nature's.

- D. James Baker

topic: Men, Impact, Law

God often uses a man or several different men to impact your life with the anointing of the Holy Spirit.

- Dag Heward-Mills

topic: Men, Impact, Different, Anointing

Technology has changed things, same as everywhere. But the economy has changed drastically. When Jamaica first won independence, our dollar was stronger than the U.S. dollar. Now ours is about 90 to one. That's had a big impact on crime and poverty.

- Damian Marley

topic: Technology, Jamaica, Impact, Big Impact

There is not a single contemporary historical mention of Jesus, not by Romans or by Jews, not by believers or by unbelievers, during his entire lifetime. This does not disprove his existence, but it certainly casts great doubt on the historicity of a man who was supposedly widely known to have made a great impact on the world. Someone should have noticed.

- Dan Barker

source: Dan Barker (1992). “Losing Faith in Faith: From Preacher to Atheist”, Freedom from Religion Fndtn

topic: Jesus, Men, Impact, Impact On The World

Knowledge is a tool, and like all tools, its impact is in the hands of the user.

- Dan Brown

source: "The Lost Symbol". Book by Dan Brown, (Trish Dunne, Ch. 18), 2009.

topic: Impact, Hands, Tools

People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.

- Dan Quayle

topic: Funny, Impact, People, Being Weird, Weird People

I have to say that movies have as much impact on me as music. And that I learned as much about narrative from movies as I did from reading novels, how to arrange stories, how to juxtapose things.

- Dana Spiotta

source: "Dana Spiotta on living the creative life". Interview with Jacket Copy, latimesblogs.latimes.com. August 3, 2011.

topic: Reading, Impact, Narrative, Reading Novels

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

- Daniel Alarcon

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

topic: Impact, Particular

Impact is rewarding. Mattering makes us happy.

- Daniel Gilbert

topic: Impact

People always underestimate the impact of technology. To give you an example: In the 1970s the frontier for offshore development was 200 meters, today it is 4,000 meters.

- Daniel Yergin

topic: Technology, Impact, People, Offshore

In the mid-1980s, operating problems took [nuclear] plants off-line so often that, on an annual basis, they operated at only about 55 percent of their rated total generating capacity. Today, as a result of several decades of experience and an intense focus on performance ... nuclear plants in the United States operate at over 90 percent of capacity. That improvement in operating efficiently is so significant in its impact that it can almost be seen as a new source in electric power itself.

- Daniel Yergin

topic: Impact, Focus, Nuclear, Electric Power, Nuclear Plants

Sometimes the little opportunities that fly at us each day can have the biggest impact.

- Danny Wallace

source: Danny Wallace (2008). “Yes Man”, p.366, Simon and Schuster

topic: Opportunity, Impact, Each Day

The very best thing you can do is to try to write a song that has some sort of impact.

- Dar Williams

source: Wallace D. Wattles, General Press (2016). “The Science of Getting Rich”, p.33, GENERAL PRESS

topic: Song, Writing, Impact

Take some initiative and snap outside of passivity; consistent small actions have impact.

- Darren Rowse

topic: Impact, Marketing, Action, Small Actions, Snaps

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

- Dave Dravecky

topic: Impact, Deny

Someone curating songs for you through your computer or being able to hold 10,000 songs on your watch - that convenience is pretty incredible, but so is the emotional impact of holding a Beatles record in your hand and listening to Let It Be.

- Dave Grohl

topic: Song, Emotional, Impact

Don't use social media to impress people; use it to impact people.

- Dave Willis

source: FaceBook post by Dave Willis from May 14, 2017

topic: Impact, Media, People

Small things done consistently, in strategic places, create major impact.

- David Allen

topic: Motivation, Impact, Done

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

- David Blatt

topic: Impact, Nba Championships, Games

I want to talk about the internet, the impact it is having on the innocence of our children, how online ***** is corroding childhood and how, in the darkest corners of the internet, there are things going on that are a direct danger to our children, and that must be stamped out.

- David Cameron

topic: Children, Impact, Childhood

In California, of all places, entertainment is the key to a vibrant economy. If we do not develop young adults capable of entering that world, the financial base of this state is sure to suffer and impact all of us.

- David Cassidy

topic: California, Impact, Keys

Texting has added a new dimension to language use, but its long-term impact is negligible. It is not a disaster.

- David Crystal

source: "2b or not 2b?" by David Crystal, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2008.

topic: Impact, Long, Use

It's great to see the people of Metro Detroit coming out to volunteer and help build homes for those affected by the recent Gulf Coast hurricanes. With all the Super Bowl excitement, it's nice for people to participate in an event that will make such a significant impact in people's lives while also being a part of the Super Bowl festivities.

- David Daniels

topic: Nice, Home, Impact, Metro, Festivities

I want to make a movie that has enough impact that it's going to do what it needs to do. But I don't want to make a film that serial killers ***** to.

- David Fincher

topic: Impact, Serial Killer, Needs

We have to judge presidents not only by the long-term consequences of their actions but also by how they make citizens in their own day feel. One reason that Nixon never succeeded in his comeback campaign is that he had such a negative impact on public trust at the time of his presidency.

- David Greenberg

source: "Making Presidential History". The Washington Post Live Q&As, www.slate.com. August 9, 2007.

topic: Impact, Long, Judging

We all have something to offer. It's so important to be able to step out of our comfort zone and share the benefit of our experience with others who are trying to find their way. You can make a real difference and have real impact. I haven't experienced anything more satisfying than that.

- David Gregory

topic: Real, Differences, Impact

We are living as if we had three planets' worth of resources to live with rather than just one. We need to cut by about two-thirds our ecological footprint. For that we need one planet farming as well as one planet living - one planet farming which minimises the impact on the environment of food production and consumption, and which maximises its contribution to renewal of the natural environment

- David Miliband

topic: Cutting, Two, Impact, Productions, Ecological Footprints

When we've finally gotten serious about global warming, when the impacts are really hitting us and we're in a full worldwide scramble to minimize the damage, we should have war crimes trials for these bastards-some sort of climate Nuremberg.

- David Roberts

topic: War, Impact, Serious, War Crimes, Nuremberg

The negative impact of population growth on all of our planetary ecosystems is becoming appallingly evident.

- David Rockefeller

source: "The Unauthorized Biography of David Rockefeller", www.theeventchronicle.com. March 30, 2017.

topic: Impact, Ecosystems, Growth, Population Growth, Population Control

The same things that lead to disparities in health in this country on a day-to-day basis led to disparities in the impact of Hurricane Katrina.

- David Satcher

topic: Country, Impact, Hurricanes, Hurricane Katrina, Disparity

Scientists have been warning about global warming for decades. It's too late to stop it now, but we can lessen its severity and impacts.

- David Suzuki

topic: Impact, Too Late, Warning

Beyond reducing individual use, one of our top priorities must be to move from fossil fuels to energy that has fewer detrimental effects on water supplies and fewer environmental impacts overall.

- David Suzuki

topic: Moving, Impact, Water, Detrimental, Environmental Impact

He whipped the chair around and actually split one of the things in half with the impact, spilling the spray of blood that was reflective, like mercury. John bellowed, "Anyone else want to donate blood to chair-ity?" He ducked into the the door and bashed one monster right in the wig, screaming, "There's some dessert! With a chair-y on top!

- David Wong

topic: Impact, Doors, Blood, Spilling, Donating Blood

I have an ElliptiGO. It's a standup bicycle. You don't pedal; you stride on it. It allows me to have the same striding motion as running without the impact.

- Dean Karnazes

topic: Running, Impact, Pedals

Love and intimacy are at the root of what makes us sick and what makes us well...I am not aware of any other factor in medicine-not diet, not smoking, not exercise-that has a greater impact.

- Dean Ornish

topic: Exercise, Impact, Roots, Incidence, Premature Death

Lawmakers need to be held accountable and should feel the impact of a government shutdown just like many other Americans will.

- Debbie Stabenow

topic: Impact, Government, Needs, Lawmakers, Government Shutdown

Self belief is just one of the reasons we're younger and looking better today. We're also better educated. We know more about the environment and how it impacts on us, we understand more about nutrition and diet, and how it can affect our health too. We're also aware that what we think can affect us and so we try to think positively.

- Deborra-Lee Furness

topic: Women, Thinking, Impact

An impact is like a punch it may hurt put it passes.

- Demi Lovato

topic: Hurt, Impact, May

It is about time that we develop a worldwide strategy to reduce illegal trade in meth and its precursor chemicals and stop the devastating impact that methamphetamine use is having on our children and our communities.

- Dennis Cardoza

topic: Children, Impact, Community, Methamphetamine, Precursor

I'll miss the comments from the people on the street who love the show and who have felt its impact on the culture. I won't miss the shooting schedule, though!

- Dennis Franz

topic: Impact, People, Missing

Of the many 'firsts' with which I have been involved at the Texas Heart Institute —including the first successful human heart transplant in the United States and the first total artificial heart transplant in the world—the achievement that may have the greatest impact on health care did not occur in the operating room or in the research laboratory. It happened on a piece of paper... when we created the first-ever packaged pricing plan for cardiovascular surgical procedures.

- Denton Cooley

topic: Heart, Successful, Impact, Operating Room, Transplants

So you never know who you touch. You never know how or when you'll have an impact, or how important your example can be to someone else" (20).

- Denzel Washington

topic: Impact, Important, Example

Defense usually doesn't make many headlines, but it goes a long way towards winning baseball games. There are a number of ways to make an impact during the course of a game, and playing solid, sound defense is one of them.

- Derek Jeter

topic: Baseball, Winning, Impact