Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nick Cave

In getting older, I find myself becoming progressively more ineffectual in a lot of different ways, and part of that is down to no longer having the youthful feeling that what you're doing has any true impact.

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.

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.

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.

Jacob Sullum

...there is no evidence that casual exposure to secondhand smoke has any impact on your life expectancy.

Henry Hampton

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.

LeBron James

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

Jon Ronson

Suddenly, madness was everywhere, and I was determined to learn about the impact it had on the way society evolves. I've always believed society to be a fundamentally rational thing, but what if it isn't? What if it is built on insanity?

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.

Jerry Jones

The impact was pretty good. But there are a lot of intangibles.

Wally Herger

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

The impact on the neighborhood would be devastating,

Mark Zandi

The impact on pricing is starting to fade.

Claude Mandil

The impact of hurricanes Katrina and Rita has been successfully addressed.

David Chang

The impact from Dell has been there. In notebooks, there used to be some money. Not now.

The increase in land values is having an impact on the industry.

Peter Graves

The idea was to minimize impacts to weekday traffic. The idea would be to have everything reopened in time for the Monday commute.

And that impact will translate into success on the Internet.

This has limited impact in predicting the potential impact of the limit in the future,

Dimitri Simes

This has had a considerable impact on Russian willingness to accommodate U.S. interests.

All in all, the rise seems moderate, so it shouldn't have a long-term impact on the share price.

Missy Elliot

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

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.

John Engler

The asbestos problem impacts everyone.

Joe Hill

It was something... the way a person's life picked up speed, the way a life was like a bullet aimed at one final target, impossible to slow or turn aside, and like the bullet, you were ignorant of what you were going to hit, would never know anything except the rush and the impact.