Quotes About Impact

While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of those actions. Consequences are governed by natural law. They are out in the Circle of Concern.

The real beginning of influence comes as others sense you are being influenced by them—when they feel understood by you—that you have listened deeply and sincerely, and that you are open.

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

In Habit 2, Stephen challenges us to envision our own funeral, and consider, "What would you like each of the speakers to say about you and your life?… What character would you like them to have seen in you? What contributions, what achievements would you want them to remember?

It is inspiring to realize that in choosing our response to circumstance, we powerfully affect our circumstance. When we change one part of the chemical formula, we change the nature of the results. • •

But is there a chance that efficiency is not the answer? Is getting more things done in less time going to make a difference

Most people see effectiveness from the golden egg paradigm: the more you produce, the more you do, the more effective you are.

frequently use this perception demonstration in working with people and organizations because it yields so many deep insights into both personal and interpersonal effectiveness. It shows, first of all, how powerfully conditioning affects our perceptions, and our paradigms. If ten seconds can have that kind of impact on the way we see things, what about the

conditioning of a lifetime? The influences in our lives—family, school, church, work environment, friends, associates, and current social paradigms such as the Personality Ethic—all have made their silent unconscious impact on us and help shape our frame of reference, our paradigms, our maps.

In the words of William George Jordan, "Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil—the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be." T

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.

If you carefully consider what you wanted to be said of you in the funeral experience, you will find your definition of success. It

In making such a choice, we become reactive. Reactive people are often affected by their physical environment. If the weather is good, they feel good. If it isn't, it affects

himself how all of this was going to affect him. Between what happened to him, or the stimulus, and his response to it, was his freedom or power to choose that response.

And being influenceable is the key to influencing others.

If you were to do one thing in your professional work that you know would have enormously positive effects on the results, what would it be?

To live, to love, to learn, to leave a legacy.

Unearned knowledge rules its wielder, to the cost of both.

Guns might be called the hardware of this equation of violence. Emotions were the software—and just as important when deciding whether or not to pick up a firearm.

the four areas where stress most significantly affected the brain: attention control, emotion regulation, healthy coping, and empathy.

Careful the things you say, Children will listen. Careful the things you do, Children will see. And learn. Children may not obey But children will listen. Children will look to you For which way to turn, To learn what to be. Careful before you say, Listen to me. Children will listen.

Si quieres mover montañas, debes ser capaz de mover personas.

No es lo que nos sucede, sino lo que hacemos con eso lo que hace la diferencia" - Nelson Mandela.

Most books are so well written they barely have any effect on the reader's senses