Past conference topics have included strengthening the role of fathers in children's lives, the impact of the media culture on children, the delicate balance between work and family, and family involvement in education.
Tipper Gore

People always underestimate the impact of technology. To give you an example: In the 1970s the frontier for offshore development was 200 meters, today it is 4,000 meters.
Daniel Yergin

People can really have an impact on a campaign and learn an awful lot. It can be an enjoyable experience.
Steve Chabot

People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.
Dan Quayle

People underestimate the impact they can have on the process through contact with legislators. By being part of an organized group in an area that you have an interest in, you can multiply the impact of your own ideas.
Ralph Regula

Perhaps September 11 could be called the first historic world event in the strictest sense: the impact, the explosion, the slow collapse - a gruesome reality literally took place in front of a global public.
Jurgen Habermas

Personally I discovered that you could go through the academy as a young scholar, come out, and almost immediately have an impact on the academic environment.
Bernice Johnson Reagon

Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Pickett's lines being nearer, the impact was heaviest upon them.
James Longstreet

Pictures can and do make a difference. Strong images of historical events do have an impact on society. They can help with change.
Charles Moore

Scientific men can hardly escape the charge of ignorance with regard to the precise effect of the impact of modern science upon the mode of living of the people and upon their civilisation.
Frederick Soddy

Since fantasy isn't about technology, the accelleration has no impact at all. But it's changed the lives of fantasy writers and editors. I get to live in England and work for a New York publisher!
Terri Windling

So I started chanting when I was nineteen, which was about twelve years ago, and it really had a huge impact on my outlook, happiness, and general creativity.
Duncan Sheik

Some major writers have a huge impact, like Ayn Rand, who to my mind is a lousy fiction writer because her writing has no compassion and virtually no humor. She has a philosophical and economical message that she is passing off as fiction, but it really isn't fiction at all.
Theodore Sturgeon

Take the time to discover how African-Americans have had a great impact on this country. In science, education, literature, art, and politics.
Lynn Swann

Tennis has had a very positive impact on my life.
Gabriela Sabatini

The airplane has had a big impact on my life.
Jim Courier

The beliefs concerning reincarnation have great ethical impact on human life and our relationship to the world.
Stanislav Grof

The biggest impact I can have for what I want to do, the results I want to have with what God's given me, is to help as many people as possible get to heaven.
Thomas Monaghan

The boomers' biggest impact will be on eliminating the term 'retirement' and inventing a new stage of life... the new career arc.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter