Famous Quotes & Sayings

Larry Page

If you look at the people who have high impact, they have pretty general knowledge. They don't have a really narrowly focused education.

Larry Page

It really matters whether people are working on generating clean energy or improving transportation or making the Internet work better and all those things. And small groups of people can have a really huge impact.

J. Michael Straczynski

We are in a tech-heavy society, plunging headlong into an unknown future. Science fiction is what allows you to stand back and analyze the impact of that and put it in context of how it affects people.

Julian Baggini

Right and wrong are not simply matters of evolutionary impacts and what is natural.

Keith Urban

At the end of the day, the Grammys are about recognizing genres that are making an impact.

As you are aware, Mr. Haney has threatened to sue the township over impact fees.

Michael E. Mann

Although scientific revolutions in how we see the world do occur, the bulk of our scientific understanding comes from the cumulative impact of numerous incremental studies that together paint an increasingly coherent picture of how nature works.

Ramez Naam

Often an idea has impact far larger than the person who originated it.

Sean Duffy

We see people voting for bills that their ideals and principles are opposed to, but because their little funding project is in there, they're voting for it. We might say it's one percent of all spending but the impact of that spending is far greater.

Sidney Poitier

The impact of the black audience is expressing itself. They look to films to be more expressive of their needs, their lives. Hollywood has gotten that message - finally.

Seth Godin

Faith in yourself, in your friends, in your colleagues and most of all, faith in your ability to impact our future is the best strategy I know.

Seth Godin

Surprise and differentiation have far more impact than noise does.

Ravi Zacharias

I have little doubt that the single greatest obstacle to the impact of the gospel has not been its inability to provide answers, but the failure on our part to live it out.

Michael Milken

You've got to treat people as equals, and make them feel like it's their company. I don't know if I've had any impact or helped persuade Frank [to sell Eastern]. But, I can tell you, there were many discussions on the subject.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Most of what Einstein said and did has no direct impact on what anybody reads in the Bible. Special relativity, his work in quantum mechanics, nobody even knows or cares. Where Einstein really affects the Bible is the fact that general relativity is the organizing principle for the Big Bang.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Every life, no matter how isolated, touches hundred of others. It's up to us to decide if those micro connections are positive or negative. But whichever we decide, it does impact the ones we deal with.

Nicolas Cage

Everything we do impacts someone else's life.

Miranda Otto

Some scripts you read and say, 'I've just got to do this' and you find a way of making it work. Some things you turn down because of the impact on family.

Marilynne Robinson

It was a source of both terror and comfort to me then that I often seemed invisible — incompletely and minimally existent, in fact. It seemed to me that I made no impact on the world, and that in exchange I was privileged to watch it unawares.

LeBron James

I make impact plays. I make game-changing plays.

Peter Drucker

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

The monomaniac is unlikely to succeed. Most leave only their bleached bones in the roadless desert. But the rest of us, with our multiple interests instead of a single mission, are certain to fail and have no impact at all.

Peer Steinbruck

If things sometimes get tough, you can't ask yourself what impact it's having on you. It isn't an option.

Mark Zuckerberg

If we want to have the biggest impact, the best way to do this is to make sure we always focus on solving the most important problems.

Thabo Mbeki

If you read a textbook it will tell you, these are the things, for instance, on the African continent that would contribute to immune deficiency: the various tropical diseases, which because of poor health infrastructure, poor nutrition, general levels of poverty, don't get treated; syphilis, untreated or not properly treated (which as I hear is a big problem, when it is treated and the symptoms disappear, but, in fact, it is not cured and incubates there) that will impact on the immune system. So you have got to deal with these things.

It has no impact on the Katrina relief effort.

I think 3.0 will have a serious impact on the world of CRM.

I think all of us were taken by surprise by the size and impact of the marches.

I realize the opportunities are probably going to be limited, so I've got to make an impact when I can. When you have a season like that I think everyone has confidence. They know I can hit.

The first practical impact of this could be when the qualifying tournaments for the 2008 Olympics would occur.

Neale Donald Walsch

Sometimes it's the shortest moments that create the longest impact.'

Genevieve Gorder

Design can have such a positive impact on the way people live and on their relationships and moods.

Wally Herger

The impacts of this inflexible law have been real and devastating,