Quotes About Impact

Words are indeed the true weapons of mass destruction.

Right, wrong, doesn't matter. Just do something.

The Koran likewise. The Magna Carta. The American Constitution. Billions of people govern their lives by those words. Society has been altered by them.

sometimes the smallest addition makes all the difference.

No one cares about some ex-vice-president or president

They became like poles on a magnet, bound together but forever separated by forces neither of them could affect.

He'd read once that the measure of an idea was how relative it was not only to its time, but beyond. His

at the sight of the sinking

You can get anything you want in life, if you help enough other people get what they want. Zig Ziglar

Never let anyone come to you without coming away better and happier. Mother Teresa

Coaching is a good profession for people who are genuinely devoted to making a difference in the lives of others.

If what you're saying is bouncing off their psychological armor, it makes little difference how good you are at saying it. You are not being heard. Your people have to hear you to be moved by you.

The simpler you keep it, the stronger it gets.

The final test of a leader is the feeling you have when you leave their presence

The problem is, the rewards and the costs of adding more things to the Home page aren't shared equally. The section that's being promoted gets a huge gain in traffic, while the overall loss in effectiveness of the Home page as it gets more cluttered is shared by all sections.

If you're studying geology, which is all facts, as soon as you get out of school you forget it all, but philosophy you remember just enough to screw you up for the rest of your life.

I am a huge believer in giving back and helping out in the community and the world. Think globally, act locally I suppose. I believe that the measure of a person's life is the affect they have on others.

We can have a large impact on the prevention and amelioration of abuse, drug problems, violence, mental health problems, and dysfunction in families.

While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions.

Information is a beacon, a cudgel, an olive branch, a deterrent—all depending on who wields it and how. Information is so powerful that the assumption of information, even if the information does not actually exist, can have a sobering effect.

The non-profit industry itself, "the most dysfunctional $300 billion industry in the world," as he saw it. Mullaney had come to believe that too many philanthropists engage in what Peter Buffett, a son of the über-billionaire Warren Buffett, calls "conscience laundering"—doing charity to make themselves feel better rather than fighting to figure out the best ways to alleviate suffering.

Most people are terrible at risk assessment. They tend to overstate the risk of dramatic and unlikely events at the expense of more common and boring (if equally devastating) events.

When Al Gore urges the citizenry to sacrifice their plastic shopping bags, their air-conditioning, their extraneous travel, the agnostics grumble that human activity accounts for just 2 percent of global carbon-dioxide emissions, with the remainder generated by natural processes like plant decay.

An expert whose argument reeks of restraint or nuance often doesn't get much attention.