Minimal Impact Quotes

You cannot overestimate the unimportance of practically everything.

My boy, one small breeze doesn't make a wind storm.

The essence of a sculpture must enter on tip-toe, as light as animal footprints on snow.

I was stirred only like a leaf in the wind, that is all. . .

Maybe my job made 0.1% of difference, but Donald Trump did 99.9% of the work, and anyone who tells you different doesn't know Donald Trump.

There are days when I'll wake up and think, oh, I've really been something. You know, it won't be the same without me. And then there are days when I wake up and I say, 'Don't kid yourself. Your contribution was minimal. You changed very little. Everything you hated prospered'.

If anything I think postmodernism has the least impact on my work.

During civil disturbance, adopt such an attitude that people do not attach any importance to you --- they neither burden you with complicated affairs, nor try to derive any advantage out of you.

Take nothing but pictures. Leave nothing but footprints. Kill nothing but time.

Take nothing but memories, leave nothing but footprints!

What I'm really concerned about is reaching one person. And that person may be myself for all I know.

They lose least who have least to lose.

If the Federal government should go out of existence, the common run of people would not detect the difference in the affairs of their daily life for a considerable length of time.

It is a mistake to do nothing just because you think you can only do a little.

I live very gently.

Walk lightly through life.

The skillful traveller leaves no traces of his wheels.

The most climate friendly trip we are ever going to take is the trip we never had to take because we were close to what we wanted.

The great advantage of the sort of education I had was precisely that it made practically no mark upon those subjected to it.

It's become more and more of a priority for me to tread as lightly as possible in the world.

She had the same responsibility as everybody else did: to live as softly as she could in the world.

I've been told I'm a good guest. I don't take up much space, I don't eat a lot, and I keep my complaints to a minimum.

For a warrior, to be inaccessible means that he touches the world around him sparingly. And above all, he deliberately avoids exhausting himselfand others. He doesn't use and squeeze people until they have shriveled to nothing, especially the people he loves.

They ravaged neither the rivers nor the forest, and if they irrigated, they took as little water as would serve their needs. The land and all that it bore they treated with consideration; not attempting to improve it, they never desecrated it.

I feel that I am doing the minimum amount of damage to other possibilities that may take place in a reader's head.