Impact Quotes
Sad Quotes about Impact

A life is not important except in
the impact it has on other lives.
- Jackie Robinson (baseball player)

The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life.
Attitude to me is more important than facts.
It is more important than the past, than education, than money,
than circumstances, than failures, than success,
than what other people think or say or do.
It is more important than appearance, gift, or skill.
It will make or break a company ... a church ... a home.
The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day
regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day.
We cannot change our past ...
we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way.
We cannot change the inevitable.
The only thing we can do is play on the string we have,
and that is our attitude.
I am convinced that life is 10 percent what happens to me
and 90 percent how I react to it.
And so it is with you ...
we are in charge of our attitudes.
- Charles Swindoll

Go ahead, make my day.
- the movie Sudden Impact (1983)

We all tend to measure our worth by what we DO -
the actions we take.
We also highly value what we SAY.
However, the greatest impact we have
on our family, our friends,
and our world is our kindness and love.
A bowl of soup served with love
is a greater gift than a steak dinner served brusquely.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

A poem can have an impact, but you can't expect an
audience to understand all the nuances.
- Douglas Dunn

I think feminism has had a major impact on anthropology.
- Clifford Geertz

So I started chanting when I was nineteen,
which was about twelve years ago, and it really had
a huge impact on my outlook,
happiness, and general creativity.
- Duncan Sheik

If the federal government had been around when the
Creator was putting His hand to this state,
Indiana wouldn't be here.
It'd still be waiting for an environmental impact statement.
- Ronald Reagan

What they fear, I think rightly, is that traditional
Vietnamese society cannot survive the American economic and cultural impact.
- J. William Fulbright

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

The nominal budget is a poor indicator of the impact
of government outlays and revenues.
- William Vickrey

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

I never thought of becoming a director.
When I was twelve, the passage from silent film to
the talkies had an impact on me -
I still watch silent films.
- Alain Resnais

Take the time to discover how African-Americans have
had a great impact on this country.
In science, education, literature, art,
and politics.
- Lynn Swann

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

The only limit to your impact is your imagination and commitment.
- Tony Robbins

As one of the voices of rural New Yorkers in Congress,
I am committed to supporting efforts such as these
that will make a real impact in people's lives.
- John M. McHugh

Mothers - especially single mothers -
are heroic in their efforts to raise our nation's children,
but men must also take responsibility for their children
and recognize the impact they have on their families' well-being.
- Evan Bayh

Americans work a long away ahead of themselves because
of the size of the place.
To make any impact at all you have to promote yourself
with live performances ages before a release.
- James Taylor

What drives people to public service is a sense of possibility.
If you haven't sensed that possibility you don't get started in the same way,
you don't feel you can have an impact.
- Henry Hampton

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

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

The idea that we can actually have an impact on places more or less instantly,
too, by responding in some way or not responding,
I think, also makes it true.
- Peter Singer

Because Ritchie Valens WAS the real deal.
He was only starting, but in the time he spent in the business,
he made big impact.
I don't know if anybody could have made a bigger one.
- Waylon Jennings

Catcher in the Rye had a profound impact on me-the
idea that we all have lots of dreams that are slowly
being chipped away as we grow up.
- Judd Nelson

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

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

The biggest impact I can have for what I want to do,
the results I want to have with what God's given me,
is to help as many people as possible get to heaven.
- Thomas Monaghan

Each of us is of infinite value,
and each of us has the ability to make
a profound difference in the lives we touch.
We leave our most profoundly positive impact
on those around us by the nature of our lives
and the example we set -
not by how busy we are,
or how important we believe we are.
Setting an example of being loving, relaxed and joyful,
regardless of external circumstances,
is a great legacy for our family and for the world.
Self importance - ego - is not a path to happiness.
Focusing one's whole life on responsibilities,
without taking time for self-renewal and play,
abandons the joy and the true value of life.
I want my tombstone to read, "Inspired others,"
rather than, "Never missed a day at the office."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The journalistic vision sharpens to the point of maximum impact every event,
every individual and social configuration;
but the honing is uniform.
- George Steiner

We played at a club called, the Elbow Room.
Don Carlos, the nightclub owner, was very hip and a
very important person who made a big impact on my life.
- Jim Capaldi

Caring about others, running the risk of feeling,
and leaving an impact on people, brings happiness.
- Harold Kushner

Any form of art is a form of power; it has impact,
it can affect change - it can not only move us,
it makes us move.
- Ossie Davis

Pictures can and do make a difference.
Strong images of historical events do have an impact on society.
They can help with change.
- Charles Moore

Actors have an unusual perspective on clothing.
You've really got to know the impact of what you're
wearing on the character you're playing.
- Kyle MacLachlan

We expert teachers know that motivation and emotional impact are what matter.
- Donald Norman

As we realise that more and more things have global impact,
I think we're going to get people increasingly wanting
to get away from a purely national interest.
- Peter Singer

If the September 11 terror attack is supposed to constitute
a caesura in world history,
it must be able to stand comparison to other events
of world historical impact.
- Jurgen Habermas

The tone did take on a negativity that I didn't like
and when you make the decision to go the other way
as we did it very directly had an impact,
you can see it with the tracking.
- Scott McCallum

Education is the key to success in life,
and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students.
- Solomon Ortiz

As for the expected boon to the Mexican economy,
we have seen none of these gains, and instead we have
seen NAFTA's detrimental impact on the Mexican workers.
- Stephen F. Lynch

Certainly the advent of technology and electronic commerce
has had an immense impact on the real estate industry.
- Michael Oxley

We played for power and impact.
- John Gallagher

I would like the Medical Society to be one of the resources
for information about the influences that have an impact
on our patients and our practices.
- Samuel Wilson

I think Karl Rove saw that in George W. Bush early
on and understood the impact that he could have on
Texas politics and probably on national politics.
- Ed Gillespie

I felt they had really moved the characters in a direction
that was very interesting.
The family had really felt the impact of what had happened to the.
- JoBeth Williams

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

The beliefs concerning reincarnation have great ethical
impact on human life and our relationship to the world.
- Stanislav Grof

Pickett's lines being nearer, the impact was heaviest upon them.
- James Longstreet

You want to find a place where, because of your skills,
you can make an impact.
- John McKinley

You can be sure that I will always consider how changes
to Social Security will impact people with disabilities
when considering the various proposals offered for reform.
- Steve Israel

I believe that transatlantic relations are very important
and that President Bush's visit to Brussels,
in a few days, will have a major impact on that.
- Jean-Pierre Raffarin

You want people walking away from the conversation
with some kernel of wisdom or some kind of impact.
- Harry Dean Stanton

Tibetan Buddhism had an enormous impact on me.
- Richard Gere

It is important to remember that all business has an
impact on the lives of real people.
- Lee R. Raymond

Just as you choose to get up every day,
go to your job, and drive the same car,
you decide how much of an impact your past has on you -
today.
- Darren L. Johnson

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

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

It sounds odd coming from me, but I realize what I
say and how I look has a great impact.
- Ayumi Hamasaki

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

I've always had a lot of creative impact on the music with Timbaland.
- Missy Elliot

I think most of the best new work is intended to have
much more impact at once.
- Donald Judd

I think I have made an impact in the workplace and
I do believe that will prevail over any of the other things in the end.
- Paula Jones

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

Agressive music can only shock you once.
Afterwards its impact declines.
It's inevitable.
- Brian Eno

My creative partner is a writer, and he's got an executive
producing credit on this film.
We've made three films together and I would never underestimate the impact of a writer.
- Taylor Hackford

This was a result of a number of factors,
but we do know that the messages kids get about the
harms of drugs has a significant impact on their decision
on whether or not to use.
- John Walters

As more information becomes available,
and the magnitude of the storm's impact becomes even more apparent,
it becomes clear that this recovery will be lengthy.
- Jo Bonner

News, if unreported, has no impact.
It might as well have not happened at all.
- Gay Talese

I can't pick out one single book that had such a profound personal impact.
- Louise Brown