Impact Quotes - page 4

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. (Sherrilyn Kenyon)
Our daily decisions and habits have a huge impact upon both our levels of happiness and success. View quote
Shawn Achor
The stock market has an insidious effect on C.E.O.s' moods, because of its impact not just on their companies but on their own bank accounts. View quote
James Surowiecki
The first book that a child reads has a colossal impact. View quote
Joan Aiken
Virtual simulations allow post-traumatic stress disorder sufferers to re-experience the events that traumatized them, and then slowly desensitize themselves to their impact through repeated recreations involving not just sight and sound but even smell. View quote
Douglas Rushkoff
What's it like to envision the ten-thousand-year environmental impact of tossing a plastic bottle into the trash bin, all in the single second it takes to actually toss it? Or the ten-thousand-year history of the fossil fuel being burned to drive to work or iron a shirt? It may be environmentally progressive, but it's not altogether pleasant. View quote
Douglas Rushkoff
Frankie appreciated both the accolades and the rejections equally, because both meant she'd had an impact. She wasn't a person who needed to be liked so much as she was a person who liked to be notorious. View quote
E. Lockhart
Proust is a hero of mine. I read 'A la recherche' in one go, and I'm a very slow reader. It had an astonishing impact, reading it on my own and being my main company. I think Proust is the most intelligent person to ever have written a novel. View quote
Edward St Aubyn
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. View quote
Amy Adams
I don't know exactly what is my impact, but I can say I am doing fashion my own way. View quote
Jean Paul Gaultier
Allegra's Austen wrote about the impact of financial need on the intimate lives of women. If she'd worked in a bookstore, Allegra would have shelved Austen in the horror section. (Karen Joy Fowler)
Poll after poll shows that consumers want the right to know what's in their food and how it's produced. Because our food choices have such a significant impact on our lives, this is a trend that should be welcomed, not frustrated. View quote
Mike Pompeo
The nominal budget is a poor indicator of the impact of government outlays and revenues. View quote
William Vickrey
Texting has added a new dimension to language use, but its long-term impact is negligible. It is not a disaster. View quote
David Crystal
Today's youth cannot miss something they have never known, but I fear that there are no current fictional characters whose impact and influence will last with such abiding affection into their 'sore and yellow' as this splendid man's creations have in mine! View quote
Peter Cushing
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. View quote
Robin Li
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. View quote
Carre Otis
Words can never adequately convey the incredible impact of our attitudes toward life. The longer I live the more convinced I become that life is 10 percent what happens to us and 90 percent how we respond to it. View quote
Charles Swindoll
I thought I had to make an impact on history. I had to become the greatest choreographer of my time. That was my mission. Posterity deals with us however it sees fit. But I gave it 20 years of my best shot. View quote
Twyla Tharp
I think journalism is a great way to do public service, to have an impact on your community. View quote
Bob Schieffer
While neurological studies have tried to identify components responsible for fear and greed, the impact on finance is less clear. (Andrew Lo)
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. View quote
Andrew Shue
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. View quote
Anita Borg
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. View quote
Anne Grant
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. View quote
Anthony Holden