Rodney Stark Quotes

This is the kind of discovery that resonates.

My show was revolutionary, ground-breaking. When I came on the scene, people were not doing a thing.

There was a side of me that knew I was gonna change the game, but I didn't know how many people would respect it.

You know that clicker? It's going to change the world more than any other thing.

I'm hoping to make a new thing for the world that remains in the mind like a new species of living thing.

No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

One new feature or fresh take can change everything.

There are two kinds of man: the ones who make history and the ones who endure it.

If children are studying the 20th century, I'm in their text books.

Michael Jordan changed so much in basketball, he took his power to make a difference. It's so much going on in music right now and somebody has to make a difference.

I think I can change the game.

A great man is one who deliberately causes something important to a happen, the probability of which seemed low before he took up the task. A great man is a man who gives history a turn which it could scarcely have taken without him. They give history a twist which nobody would have predicted. Great men leave permanent effects.

A great man represents a strategic point in the campaign of history, and part of his greatness consists of his being there.

It may not have been fair, but it changed history.

Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.

Among the earliest modern commodities were printed books … and their shrinking price and increased availability were far more historically momentous than, say, the spread of the internal combustion engine.

We don't look at 'Maha Kumbh' as just another serial. We would like viewers to see what we see. We haven't had a game-changer on Indian television for a very long time. We hope this one will make difference to the way audiences look at the home-viewing medium.

Being a game changer to me means changing the way other people see things.

Money is great, but history is something that you can never get rid of and act like it didn't happen.

I just want to change the game.

I do think that deciding between a particular discovery and a technological breakthrough - I would always think the impact is probably much larger for the technological breakthrough.

I'm trying to make history.

I don't think people that make history set out to make it.

Make history or be a part of it.

You can make history, or you will be vilified by it.