Quotes About Impact

In the words of Thoreau, "For every thousand hacking at the leaves of evil, there is one striking at the root.

It's not what happens to us, but our response to what happens to us that hurts us. Of course

For Melinda and for me, the challenge is the same: how can we do the most good for the greatest number with the resources we have

For every thousand hacking at the leaves of evil, there is one striking at the root." We

As long as we are working in our Circle of Concern, we empower the things within it to control us. We aren't taking the proactive initiative necessary to effect positive change.

For Melinda and for me, the challenge is the same: how can we do the most good for the greatest number with the resources we have" (Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind).

Our image of ourselves, and our role as good, caring parents, was even deeper than our image of our son and perhaps influenced

Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil—the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life.

I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die. For the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

O que você é ecoa em meus ouvidos com tanta força que não consigo ouvir o que você diz.

My experience has been that there are times to teach and times not to teach. When relationships are strained and the air charged with emotion, an attempt to teach is often perceived as a form of judgment and rejection. But to take the child alone, quietly, when the relationship is good and to discuss the teaching or the value seems to have much greater impact.

I'm busy—really busy. But sometimes I wonder if what I'm doing will make any difference in the long run. I'd really like to think there was meaning in my life, that somehow things were different because I was here.

But to take the child alone, quietly, when the relationship is good and to discuss the teaching or the value seems to have much greater impact. It may have been that the emotional maturity to do that was beyond my level of patience and internal control at the time.

Proactive people focus their efforts in the Circle of Influence. They work on the things they can do something about. The nature of their energy is positive, enlarging and magnifying, causing their Circle of Influence to increase.

Correct maps will infinitely impact our personal and interpersonal effectiveness far more than any amount of effort expended on changing our attitudes and behaviors.

Now think deeply. What would you like each of these speakers to say about you and your life? What kind of husband, wife, father, or mother would you like their words to reflect? What kind of son or daughter or cousin? What kind of friend? What kind of working associate? What character would you like them to have seen in you? What contributions, what achievements would you want them to remember? Look carefully at the people around you. What difference would you like to have made in their lives?

Pygmalion effect

It's not what happens to us, but our response to what happens to us that hurts us. Of course, things can hurt us physically or economically

He saw creating the 7 Habits not primarily as a means to his own success, but as an act of service.

As long as you feel you are serving others, you do the job well. When you are concerned only with helping yourself, you do it less well—a law as inexorable as gravity.

Un serio problema del lenguaje reactivo es que se convierte en una profecía de autocumplimiento.

for every thousand hacking at the leaves of evil , there is one hacking at the root ....

If ten seconds can have that kind of impact on the way we see things, what about the conditioning of a lifetime?

What would you like each of the speakers to say about you and your life?…