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“Christmas was on a Sunday in 2005, which had a greater than expected negative impact on retail and classified advertising during the last weekend of our fiscal year. In addition, our California papers had held up well in automotive advertising, but the industry-wide decline in this category reached them in the fourth quarter as well.”

Years Wells Lasts Greater Industry Paper Negative Impact Wide Expected Advertising California Sunday Categories Quarters Weekend Decline Fourth Papers Retail Fourth Quarter

Author:Gary Pruitt

“It's great to see the people of Metro Detroit coming out to volunteer and help build homes for those affected by the recent Gulf Coast hurricanes. With all the Super Bowl excitement, it's nice for people to participate in an event that will make such a significant impact in people's lives while also being a part of the Super Bowl festivities.”

People Helping Home Nice Events Impact Affection Significant Excitement Affected Coming Out Bowls Volunteer Coast Hurricanes Detroit Super Bowl Metro Festivities

Author:David Daniels

“Art that has depth makes a strong impact on the spirit, emotion, mood and thoughts of a human being.”

Humans Art Spirit Strong Human Beings Emotion Strength Impact Depth Mood

Author:Li Shan

“The act, the doing, the taking up of paint and putting it down - the immediate impact upon your psyche or soul that occurs when you do that - has so much danger in it.”

Soul Danger Impact Paint

Author:Milton Resnick

“Through a process of trial and error and experimentation, I discovered the simplest method - using only black - produced work with the strongest visual impact installed.”

Process Black Method Impact Errors Trials Visuals Strongest Simplest Experimentation Trial And Error

Author:Paul Russo

“The art of British Columbia's native Indians played a big role in inspiring my creativity... the simplicity of the images, the graciousness of the lines and curves, and the emotional impact of the bright simple primary colours.”

Art Bigs Lines Simple Roles Creativity Influence Emotional Impact Simplicity British Primaries Colour Native Curves Columbia Graciousness British Columbia

Author:Joe Average

“I think that women as a group are so powerful. I still don't think we are able to embrace our power well enough yet. We think we live in a man's world and we have to follow their rules, and yet, we're so different, and our rules are so different. I wish that we could come together more as a political force. If women ran the world, I don't believe that there would be war. I really don't.... We understand the bigger picture. We understand our impact on the environment, on the world. We understand the generations that will go after us because we gave birth to them.”

“As with much of the world's problems, they become public--or much more of interest--the moment they begin to impact the West.”

World Moments Problem Interest Impact West

Author:Chris Abani

“It was designed to have an impact on the stalemate over Mutually Assured Destruction with the Soviet Union. Us reaching the moon convinced Gorbachev and other leaders that the Soviet Union couldn't compete with the U.S., so they revised their agenda. But people have short memories.”

People Memories Leader Moon Destruction Impact Unions Convinced Reaching Agendas Soviet Soviet Union Assured Gorbachev Short Memory Stalemate Mutually Assured Destruction

Author:Buzz Aldrin

“I don't doubt at all that virtualization is useful in some areas. What I doubt rather strongly is that it will ever have the kind of impact that the people involved in virtualization want it to have.”

People Want Kind Doubt Involved Areas Impact

Author:Linus Torvalds

“There's been nothing proven that violence in video games has an impact. As a parent though, and I'm a parent for a 20-year-old, for a 16-year-old and for a 10-year-old, and so, you know, I make choices everyday for my kids as to what games I think is appropriate for them to play. And, you know, in the end it's up to the parents, it's up to the gamers themselves working with their parents, if they're under 21, to make the smartest choice for the games they play.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Years Ends Play Kids Choices Games Parent Violence Impact Everyday Video Appropriate Proven Gamer

Author:Reggie Fils-Aime

“The dreams of "leaving it up to the market" or of returning to a politically neutral gold standard cannot succeed because the nature of the monetary system has a profound impact on the interests of powerful groups and states. Affected groups and states will always try to intervene in the operation of the system to make it serve their interests.”

Trying States Dream Interest Powerful Groups Succeed Standards Gold Impact Profound Leaving Operations Affected Monetary Monetary System Gold Standard

Author:Robert Gilpin

“Christendom is not primarily a mental construct. It is above all a fact, indeed the longest historical experience the Church has had. Hence the deep impact it has made on its life and thought.”

Made Facts Church Impact Historical Constructs Christendom Deep Impact

Book:A Theology of Liberation: History, Politics, and Salvation

Source: A Theology of Liberation: History, Politics, and Salvation

“The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.”

Church Safety Impact Profound Obsessed Our Time

Book:The Faith of Leap (Shapevine): Embracing a Theology of Risk, Adventure & Courage

Source: The Faith of Leap (Shapevine): Embracing a Theology of Risk, Adventure & Courage

“My take on what happened with the moon landing was [......] they suspect [ sic ] that on impact that the cameras would be damaged because back in 1969 cameras weren't, you know, like they are today, as good. So they had a studio set up at CBS to mimic the moon landing. And sure enough the cameras broke and so they flipped, you know, the CBS studio on. And what you saw of the footage of the '69 moon landing was actually at CBS studio.”

Knows Enough Would Be Today Saws Happened Moon Cameras Impact Studios Broke Suspects Landing Flipped Moon Landing

Author:Kent Hovind

“I had, in my legal practice, often encountered really shocking examples of the devastating impact of the costs of long-term medical care on meagre incomes. And, just before I was elected, I had my own personal experience in paying very considerable bills for my mother's terminal illness.”

Long Care Mother Term My Own Practice Example Cost Impact Bills Illness Medical Income Long Term Shocking Personal Experiences Terminal Medical Care Terminal Illness

Author:Judy LaMarsh

“The "cumulative effects" of unbridled commercialism, however difficult to assess, constitute one key to the impact of growing up in the core of the world's marketing system. Minimally, it suggests unpreparedness for, and lack of interest in, the world that exists outside the shopping mall.”

World Difficult Interest Growing Up Growing Effects Keys Impact Marketing Core Shopping Malls Cumulative Commercialism

Author:Herbert Schiller

“I balance my natural drive for speed and impact with a counterbalancing drive for significance, innovation and sustained customer intimacy. This involves slowing down and moving from transactive management, which focuses on speed, content, accuracy and productivity, to transformative leadership, which focuses on significance, context, authenticity and purpose. This critical shift requires constant diligence, discipline and practice.”

“Thanks to the FedDev Ontario funding we were able to get a number of key initiatives underway to mitigate the potential negative economic impact of the Heinz closure. With this additional funding we will continue to be in high gear within the food processing sector to continue with business retention, expansion and attraction activities in the Windsor-Essex region.”

Able Numbers Economic Keys Activity Negative Impact Attraction Thanks Regions Initiative Expansion Funding Gears Closure Processing Retention Ontario Windsor Essex

Author:Sandra Pupatello

“SDN is a major shift in the networking industry. At Juniper, we think the impact of SDN will be much broader than others have suggested. It will redefine networking and create new winners and losers. We're embracing SDN with clearly defined principles, a four-step roadmap to help customers adopt SDN within their business, and the networking industry's first comprehensive software-centric business model. We're incredibly excited about the value that SDN will deliver to our customers and are committed to leading the industry through this transition.”

“The social and economic impact of innovative American researchers, companies, and workers over the course of U.S. history have been enormous.”

Has Beens Courses Social Company Economic Impact Workers Enormous Innovative Researchers

Author:Robert Hormats

“Teacher training institutes should impact training of our nation's teachers in a manner that encourages them to support the holistic development of the child and to continuously refine their own skills to create the best possible learning environments for our children.”

Should Children Nations Support Environment Teacher Development Skills Training Our Children Impact Institute Holistic Institutes Teacher Training Learning Environment

Author:Shaheen Mistri

“...Simplifications have had a much greater long-range scientific impact than individual feats of ingenuity. The opportunity for simplification is very encouraging, because in all examples that come to mind the simple and elegant systems tend to be easier and faster to design and get right, more efficient in execution, and much more reliable than the more contrived contraptions that have to be debugged into some degree of acceptability....Simplicity and elegance are unpopular because they require hard work and discipline to achieve and education to be appreciated.”

“How you think about your spouse greatly impacts how you treat your spouse.”

Thinking Treats Impact Spouse

Author:Ted Lowe

“Significant changes in the growth rate of money supply, even small ones, impact the financial markets first. Then, they impact changes in the real economy, usually in six to nine months, but in a range of three to 18 months. Usually in about two years in the US, they correlate with changes in the rate of inflation or deflation." "The leads are long and variable, though the more inflation a society has experienced, history shows, the shorter the time lead will be between a change in money supply growth and the subsequent change in inflation.”

“I'm most enthused by the younger people...and I wouldn't have said that two years ago. I spoke at two college campuses (in Wisconsin) and the students weren't interested. Public Service was a dirty word to them. Now they see it differently. They see you can come together and have a positive impact. I'm encouraged because they now see that we can win on these issues.”

People Years Said Two Together Winning Issues Students College Years Ago Impact Dirty Two Years Spokes Public Service Campus Wisconsin Positive Impact Dirty Words Two Years Ago College Campus

Author:Ed Garvey

“Analysts say Obama's new immigration plan will focus on deporting violent criminals. So, this could impact your fantasy football team.”

Fantasy Focus Plans Team Football Impact Criminals Violent Immigration Football Team Analysts Violent Criminals Fantasy Football

Author:Conan O'Brien

“Conservation is getting nowhere because it is incompatible with our Abrahamic concept of land. We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect. There is no other way for land to survive the impact of mechanized man, nor for us to reap from it the aesthetic harvest it is capable, under science, of contributing to culture”

Source: A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There

“The Ocean Health Index is like the thermometer of the ocean. It will allow us to take the temperature to know what is going on at the global level, trying to integrate different impacts, including overfishing, invasive species, coastal development, and climate change.”

Knows Trying Different Levels Development Ocean Impact Climate Species Climate Change Including Temperature Integrating Coastal Thermometers Overfishing

Author:Enric Sala

“Let he who would move the world, first complete an environmental impact assessment and a 90-day public comment period.”

World Firsts Moving Periods Impact Environmental Comment Assessment Environmental Impact

Author:Socrates

“It's always the little decisions that have the biggest impact.”

Littles Decision Impact

Book:How to Win at the Sport of Business: If I Can Do It, You Can Do It

Source: How to Win at the Sport of Business: If I Can Do It, You Can Do It

“It's actually a relatively small number of people that really are those risk takers, and a relatively small number of people that end up really having an impact on the world, and it doesn't take a lot of people. We said, 'Well, rather than just sit by and wait, or fold our tent and go do something else, let's keep at it. Maybe we can be the ones who can figure this out,' and eventually we were.”

People World Wells Said Ends Waiting Numbers Risk Figures Impact Folds Tents Small Numbers Impact On The World

Author:Steve Case

“Attempts to estimate the impacts of climate change continue to be highly speculative.”

Impact Climate Climate Change Kyoto Kyoto Protocol

Book:Warming the World: Economic Models of Global Warming

Source: Warming the World: Economic Models of Global Warming

“The industrial processes in use today were developed at a time when no one had to consider what the environmental impact was. Who cared? But making ecological concerns matter to a company's bottom line will help it do the research and development that will reinvent everything we buy.”

Matter Helping Use Today Process Lines Company Environment Development Research Concern Impact Environmental Bottom Bottom Line Ecological Research And Development Environmental Impact

Author:Daniel Goleman

“In a manner akin to the influence of Tiger Woods on the other side of the Atlantic, Thierry Henry has helped kick down a few of the remaining bigoted stereotypes. Through his undisputable class and dignity, Henry has made a deep-seated difference to race relations in this country. Racism will flounder whenever white children grow up with a black man as their hero. That so few comment on Henry's colour is a silent tribute to his impact.”

“We have a thriving subculture of 'independent' American movies that makes an impact on America as a whole roughly equivalent to that of a the modern literary novel. These are the films sincere viewers marry, whereas, once upon a time, movies were a lifetime of one night stands.”

Whole America Film Night Novel Modern Hollywood Independent Impact Lifetime Sincere Viewers One Night Once Upon A Time American Movie One Night Stand Subculture

Author:Edward Jay Epstein

“Then came the choreography... the impact of music and choreography tends to really emphasize an overall feeling of what you really want out of the program.”

Want Feelings Sports Program Impact Choreography

Author:Peggy Fleming

“If adapted to the unique requirements of various regions and peoples of the world, such economic pluralism could have a greater global impact over the next fifty years than the collectivist economics of Marxism and neo-Marxism have had during the half century just past.”

Ifs World Years Wisdom Past Next Politics Half Economy Greater Economic Century Unique Economics Impact Various Liberalism Fifty Regions Requirements Marxism Adapted Pluralism

Author:Robert Dickson Crane

“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.”

Thinking Levels Views Changed Impact

Author:Andrew Shue

“I am fascinated to hear of the impact that ESOPs have had on work-force morale in corporations of all sizes such as Sears Roebuck, Potomac Electric Power, Lowe's Companies and the Dow Chemical Company.”

Wisdom Politics Force Company Economy Impact Size Corporations Liberalism Chemicals Fascinated Electric Morale Sears Lowes Electric Power Esops

Author:Robert S. Strauss

“Our people, our shareholders, me, Bill Gates, we expect to change the world in every way, to succeed wildly at everything we touch, to have the broadest impact of any company in the world.”

People World Way Company Economy Succeed Impact Bills Changing The World Gates Shareholders

Author:Steve Ballmer

“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.”

Ifs Thinking Years Wells Littles Age Literature Attitude Impact University Sixty Royal Charles I

Author:Anthony Holden

“I kept careful record of the impact of religion on the election in my county. The religious issue permeated every meeting I conducted. It influenced Republicans and Democrats alike. Ministers preached politics publicly and churches distributed the most vicious electioneering materials. Practically no one I met escaped the pressure of this overriding problem and both parties were ultimately forced to make their major calculations with the religious question a foremost consideration.”

“No other single innovation had so much impact on history.”

Atheism Innovation Impact Positive Atheism

Book:One True God: Historical Consequences of Monotheism

Source: One True God: Historical Consequences of Monotheism

“The diversity of life on Earth, generally, is astonishing. But despite those large numbers, it's also important to recognize that every species, one way or another, is vulnerable to extinction. And in our time on Earth... our impact on the diversity of life has been profound.”

“Abstraction didn't have to be limited to a kind of rectilinear geometry or even a simple curve geometry. It could have a geometry that had a narrative impact. In other words, you could tell a story with the shapes. It wouldn't be a literal story, but the shapes and the interaction of the shapes and colors would give you a narrative sense. You could have a sense of an abstract piece flowing along and being part of an action or activity. That sort of turned me on.”

Giving Kind Stories Action Simple Pieces Color Activity Shapes Impact Narrative Abstract Interaction Abstraction Curves Geometry Literal

Author:Frank Stella

“It feels like an amazing opportunity to positively impact the world. That's what I hope to do.”

World Feels Opportunity Impact Positively Amazing Opportunities

Author:Tyler Oakley

“Why being involved in social media has had such a tremendous impact on me, is deeply connecting me with fans in ways that I never had before. I was connected with fans and I always appreciated the relationship I had with fans, but, through social media, it allowed a deeper connection.”

Way Social Fans Media Involved Connections Impact Deeper Social Media Connected Appreciated Connecting

Author:Dwayne Johnson

“If you're a voice for a community, then you're a voice for something more than yourself. I want to have an impact, because I don't want anybody to have to go through what I went through.”

Ifs Want Voice Community Impact

Author:Vince Staples

“What people believe impacts on what they do. And it's not as if religion is universally bad. Of course it's responsible for many peoples doing good actions.”

People Ifs Believe Action Courses Responsible Impact Doing Good Good Actions

Author:Lawrence M. Krauss

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