Quotes about Impact
Literature has the same impact as a match lit in the middle of a field in the middle of the night. The match illuminates relatively little, but it enables us to see how much darkness surrounds it.
— William Faulkner
The past is never dead. It's not even past; it's always part of the present.
— William Faulkner
Pragmatism asks its usual question. Grant an idea or belief to be true, it says, what concrete difference will its being true make in anyone's actual life? How will the truth be realized? What experiences will be different from those which would obtain if the belief were false? What, in short, is the truth's cash-value in experiential terms?
— William James
The best use of life is to spend it for something that outlasts it.
— William James
A difference which makes no difference is no difference at all.
— William James
Act as if what you do makes a difference, it does.
— William James
When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.
— Helen Keller
The essential thing is to spring forth, to express the bolt of lightning one senses upon contact with a thing. The function of the artist is not to translate an observation but to express the shock of the object on his nature; the shock, with the original reaction.
— Henri Matisse
Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape!
— Henry David Thoreau
Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.
— Henry David Thoreau
As we serve our jobs we serve the world.
— Henry Ford
The charitable system that does not aim to make itself unnecessary is not performing service.
— Henry Ford