Potential Impact Quotes

I became very sensitive to what will happen to all this and all of us.

Our every action has a universal dimension, a potential impact on others' happiness.

Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.

2011 is one of those years that historians are likely to look back on as a 'hinge.' And the truth, at once frightening and exhilarating, is that we don't know yet which way the door will swing.

Don't avoid doing something wondering what its consequences may be. Give it a thought, break it down, and consider what really may happen rather than not do it at all.

The most important step of all is the first step. Start something! What if that idea you have in the back of your head is a really good one, one that might end up helping tens of thousands of people? You owe it to the world ot act. Or maybe it will help only a few people: The same advice applies. If you don't do it, you are missing out on something big, and so are the people who could have been helped.

A story lives transformed by a gesture not made or a word not spoken

We cannot afford to be idle. To act on a bad idea is better than to not act at all. Because the worth of the idea never becomes apparent until you do it. Sometimes this idea can be the smallest thing in the world, a little flame that you hunch over and cup with your hand, and pray will not be extinguished by all the storm that howls about it. If you could hold onto that flame, great things could construct around it, that are massive and powerful and world changing, all held up by the tiniest of ideas.

Perhaps at a later point important developments will be traced back to September 11. But for now we do not know which of the many scenarios will actually hold in the future.

Without leadership ability,a person's impact is only a fraction of what it could be with good leadership.

This does not matter. This is not anything yet. It all depends on what you do with it, afterward.

We must remain mindful of the potential impact of over-correcting the authorizations of the intelligence community.

We will wait to see if it is a doozy before we decide how to cover it, and what it all means.