Gary Zukav Quotes

I'm trying to have everything that I put into the world be something that makes a difference in the way I want to make a difference.

The influence of each human being on others in this life is a kind of immortality.

I do not think wrestling is going to save the world.

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

When you lead a normal life, you aren't aware of how you affect people.

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

'Saw VI' has a really interesting theme about the ripple effect. Everything you do affects the guy next to you, which affects the guy next to him, which affects her over here. And you might think that what you're doing is not that significant, but just the way you respond to other people makes the world the way it is.

You never know when you are doing something that is affecting someone.

What I actually wanted to do with my life is make a difference to the world. That led me into science very quickly.

Family is very important to me because that is the footprint we perpetuate. That is, the ripple in the water when the rock first impacts the pool, and it is those waves, that energy that one produces, that determines our direction.

We forget that everything has a meaning, everything has an impact on you. It's what we call soft power today. Nothing is innocent.

I realized that there's a big world, and really, the only way you can make a critical impact on something greater than your own little world is through technology.

I left my mark on that man.

Our generation does not want its epitaph to read, 'We kept charity overhead low.' We want it to read that we changed the world.

One voice can change a room, and if one voice can change a room, then it can change a city, and if it can change a city, it can change a state, and if it change a state, it can change a nation, and if it can change a nation, it can change the world. Your voice can change the world.

In a nation of millions and a world of billions, the individual is still the first and basic agent of change.

A human can alter their field, but can't change the world.

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.

We are always impacting the world...through our presence, energy, interactions - what kind of impact are we having?

Every two people cause and intersection. Every person alters the world.

Affecting the world is obviously possible when we see people in the world who we really love and respect and we see how that they affect our lives.

Your actions are not in a vacuum. They impact other people. It may be in a way that's less obvious than in mainstream movies, but it comes to an understanding of who those people are. It also leaves it open to interpretation. And that's what art is, a form in which people can reflect on who we are as human beings and come to some understanding of this journey we are on.

My motivation for all my companies has been to be involved in something that I thought would have a significant impact on the world.

One small changed family doesn't calculate into a world that has been spinning for a billion years. But one small change makes the world spin differently in a billion ways for one family.

We are all affecting the world every moment, whether we mean to or not.