Quotes about Impact

O may I join the choir invisibleOf those immortal dead who live againIn minds made better by their presence.

for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

Our deeds are like children that are born to us; they live and act apart from our own will. Nay, children may be strangled, but deeds never: they have an indestructible life both in and out of our consciousness.

I never forget that a book is not an end in itself. Just like a newspaper or a magazine, a book is a means of communication, which is why I try to grab the reader by the throat and not let go to the end. I don't always succeed, of course; readers tend to be elusive. Who is my reader?

You never know what will happen. There is a thing called zeitgeist. You have to hit it.

Scientists must venture outside their comfort zones to show the public how cool - and how important - their work really is.

I am not built for academic writings. Action is my domain.

It is not yours to finish the task, but neither are you free to take no part in it.

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once, will never do anything.

Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment, and especially on their children, than the unlived lives of the parents.

Man is not the creature of circumstances, Circumstances are the creatures of men.