Alice Sebold Quotes

Sooner or later the public will forget you; the memory of you will fade. What's important are the individuals you've influenced along the way.

There is nothing so eternally adhesive as the memory of power.

I've been around a long time, so I guess I've touched a lot of people's lives - hopefully for the better.

That is your legacy on this Earth when you leave this Earth: how many hearts you touched.

We must leave our mark on life while we have it in our power.

What mark will I leave behind? How will anyone know I have been here? What sign will tell the future traveler I existed? 'I am here! Today... I exist'. I believe the deepest impression is made in those moments when I can say 'I care, I love'.

I want to be the guy calling the shots.

Emotional information is very, very rich in influence. You're giving somebody something to connect with, to see themselves in.

I think legacies are most meaningful with the impressions that a person can leave on a group of people.

People are terrified of me, and I want them to be.

Everyone remembers the last thing you did.

I want to be dominant from day one.

My father's legacy is going to be talked about for hundreds and hundreds of years.

Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.

Power is nothing unless you can turn it into influence.

Your impact on the world is significant whether or not you are aware of it, and even whether or not you desire it.

They ask me what I'd like written about me when I'm gone. I hope they write I made Penn State a better place, not just that I was a good football coach.

Anyone that has character leaves a mark on another. Would you like to leave the world without making a ripple?

It's not about money. The money will flow. It's about power and influence.

What you leave behind is the people you loved. You leave yourself in them.

Work, work, work, but what mark do we leave, what point do we make? People who are too beholden to work become like erasers: as things move forward, they leave in their wake no trace of themselves.

I do not want to pass the time. I want to grab hold of it and leave my mark upon the world.

People will summarize your life in one sentence - Pick it now.

I once heard someone on a bus say that this guy had gotten under her skin. And it struck me as a remarkable thought - that someone would affect you so deeply they'd always be a part of you.

Your words can permanently influence a life.