Top 1200 Impact On Society Quotes & Sayings

I have not been part of an active counterculture movement, as it is not the approach that I have personally pursued to create a qualitatively beneficial and meaningful impact on society.

It takes time for people to understand how, as an individual, I can have an impact on the way that society works.

Time is a function of impact. The longer a book of mine has been in print, the greater its impact seems to be as people absorb and digest my ideas. I am especially proud of The Change Master: Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the American Corporation, first published in 1983, because it raised questions and addressed issues at a time when so many great changes were occurring in our society, indeed throughout the world.

Chemical synthesis is uniquely positioned at the heart of chemistry, the central science, and its impact on our lives and society is all pervasive.

Long-term career aspirations encompass emotional and intellectual impact of work on society.

I had a vague idea of the song's impact in the '60s, but that was tempered by the hate mail and threats I was receiving. It was only about ten years ago, when I finally put it back in my show because so many people were asking for it, that I understood 'Society's Child' real impact.

As a proud Catholic, I know the impact that faith-based education can have in our society and have witnessed it first hand in my district.

I believe I have a personal responsibility to make a positive impact on society.

My feeling is that if you can make a big impact on the global literacy problem, you can uplift a big portion of society.

There will be a huge, huge positive impact for society when driverless cars become a thing.

I think nowadays, women are breaking the borders or the boundaries and also trying to give a new interpretation in terms of impact you can have to the society.

The moral disapprobation of society has an impact on behavior in societies.

I joined the Aspen Institute, which is a terrific nonpartisan center. They have a wonderful effort that focuses on the impact of communications technology on society and our economy.

Games have a huge impact on our society because the media plays a role in helping to shape our attitudes. So it's not just fantasy.

Cinema leaves a deep impact on the society. As creative people and entertainment film-makers, we have to be responsible at some point as we are also the conscious citizens of this country.

More directly linked to the impact of technology, it involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled and directed society. Such a society would be dominated by an elite whose claim to political power would rest on allegedly superior scientific know-how. Unhindered by the restraints of traditional liberal values, this elite would not hesitate to achieve its political ends by using the latest modern techniques for influencing public behavior and keeping society under close surveillance and control.

TV has had a stronger impact on our society than any single invention since the automobile. It has put the dead hand on conversation.

If you can make a big impact on the global literacy problem, you can uplift a big portion of society.

As I have said, the first thing is to be honest with yourself. You can never have an impact on society if you have not changed yourself... Great peacemakers are all people of integrity, of honesty, but humility.

I have a divinely-ordained calling in my life to create a larger impact on human society.

I'm about impact. One can make impact if they run a big business with a lot of zeroes. I've done that. One can also make an impact when you're a research analyst, where it's you and your associate. I've done that.

A crowded society is a restrictive society; an overcrowded society becomes an authoritarian, repressive and murderous society.

Wrestling is a reflection of society, and it does have an impact on people.

The impact of climate change is relatively small. The average impact on welfare is equivalent to losing a few per cent of income. That is, the impact of a century worth of climate change is comparable to the impact of one or two years of economic growth.

You can never have an impact on society if you have not changed yourself.

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?

Where civil society thrives, governments operate with more transparency and accountability. This creates a tangible impact on the lives of everyday citizens.

I think I had a lot of impact on every player. Maybe it sounds cocky, but if I don't feel I have an impact or a big impact, I wouldn't be able to be excited about my work every day.

For me, football is more than a sport, just look at the impact it has on society.

Loneliness is a huge issue for both individuals and for society. It's taken a long time for the issue to be treated seriously and for us to begin to understand the impact it can have.

Among Hindu groups, none has made as great an impact on America as the Vedanta Society.

Any school which wants to create an impact on the society should work on creating leaders.

A dreaded society is not a civilized society. The most progressive and powerful society in the civilized sense, is a society which has recognized its ethos, and come to terms with the past and the present, with religion and science. With modernism and mysticism, with materialism and spirituality; a society free of tension, a society rich in culture. Such a society cannot come with hocus-pocus formulas and with fraud. It has to flow from the depth of a divine search.

Today's investors want to see a positive impact on society and the environment as well as solid financial returns.

Everyone mentions the fact that I am the first African GM. I think it means nothing unless you impact people in Africa. That's what we're trying to try to continue to do - impact the game and make an impact on people over there.

Novel technologies and ideas that impinge on human biology and their perceived impact on human values have renewed strains in the relationship between science and society.

For me, one of the things that makes the X-Men so crucial is they are relatively small in number but they have the potential to have a tremendous impact on the society around them.

I loved clinical practice, but in public health, you can impact more than one person at a time. The whole society is your patient.

Sometimes we think roles define us. One can emerge beyond the confines of their roles to make an impact on society.

Education opens the door to everything in terms of having a career and an impact on society and not being a slave to your job, really.

The most important impact on society and the world is the cell phone. Cell phones have actually been one of the primary drivers in productivity improvements.

The Fourth Industrial Revolution demands that CEOs take responsibility for the massive transformation of their businesses and for the extraordinary impact that this transformation will have on wider society.

At one and the same time, therefore, society is everything and society is nothing. Society is the most powerful concoction in the world and society has no existence whatsoever

A sour corporate culture can actually make an entire society unhappy. This means that a strong corporate culture can have a positive impact on a society.

We are borrowing money from future generations. We are borrowing the carbon impact, the resource impact from future generations to get stuff cheap now. We have swept the dirt and dust from our society under the carpet - but this carpet is on other side of the planet.

Impact investing has become a broad umbrella that includes all investing with a focus on both financial return and social impact, but in its best form, impact investing prioritizes impact over returns and achieves outcomes that traditional investing cannot.

I think it has a terrible impact when you don't see yourself reflected in the society because then you get the feeling you don't belong.

Athletes can definitely have an impact on society. And it's great that athletes can be a part of uniting the population.

I would like the Medical Society to be one of the resources for information about the influences that have an impact on our patients and our practices.

In order to impact our society, we need to first model unity in the church.

Churches are having a limited impact on society because they fail to understand that the goal of the church is not the church itself but the kingdom.

I've always had a philosophy that position doesn't define power. Impact defines power. What impact are you making on people? What impact are you making on business?

In this post-industrial society, when we're moving away from what was the norm, we have to deal with what it has left in its wake in terms of the impact on people and the environment.

What they fear, I think rightly, is that traditional Vietnamese society cannot survive the American economic and cultural impact.

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.

Pretty soon we'll have robots in our society, you're going to have a lot of automated processes that used to be done by people - this is happening. Society and technology is changing so fast, and the impact of the change on society and technology is global, not local.

We should understand the impact that Malcolm had on the whole of American society.

I actually think the one who is underestimated in terms of impact he's had on society is Bill Gates. The reason is that with the innovation of software, he really allowed the computer revolution to take hold.

I don't know if anybody thought about how much impact the iPhone could have on society.

When you've got society calling you a burden and talking about how much money you're costing the state, it's bound to impact negatively on your mental health.