Quotes About Impact

Sometimes all you had to do was breathe to ruin somebody's else's day.

I passionately believe that's it's not just what you say that counts, it's also how you say it - that the success of your argument critically depends on your manner of presenting it.

Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us.

The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart.

No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.

What then are doing if not creating a better place together? I think, for me the key has to be, what do I want to create? What is it I want to leave behind?

Fine words have there place, but action is all.

It is enough for me to know that I left something of beauty behind and that it has thrived. I am content.

Finally, the scariest thing about abuse of any shape or form, is, in my opinion, not the abuse itself, but that if it continues it can begin to feel commonplace and eventually acceptable.

When you are a happy person, you'll influence others to behave positively toward you.

Words have a way of coming back to haunt us.

By turning back on verbal littering, you are suggesting that it's okay to junk the world.

But I was beginning to see how she must have thought she was doing something good for us, even though she was wrong.

In a very real and sobering way, we must actually become the gospel to the people around us—an expression of the real Jesus through the quality of our lives.

It is only when the people of God as a whole are activated in a movement that real world transformation takes place.

Transformation happens less by arguing cogently about something new than by generating active new practices that shift the experience of the basis for reality. In other words, the best way of making ideas have impact is to embed them into the very rhythms and habits of the community in the form of common tools and practices.

Neil Cole wryly notes, "If you can't reproduce disciples, you can't reproduce leaders. If you can't reproduce leaders, you can't reproduce churches. If you can't reproduce churches, you can't reproduce movements."32

Television is the last technology we should be allowed to invent and put out without a surgeon general's warning.

Modern technology Owes ecology An apology.

THE SEISMOGRAPH HAS TAUGHT us that a tremor in any part of the world can be felt by a sufficiently sensitive instrument everywhere in the world. The same is true of a person's deeds. One should not think that his actions do not affect others. Everything one does in some way affects everyone else in the world. —RABBI YERUCHAM LEVOVITZ (1873–1936)

Opening a meeting or conversation in a way which is straight to the point, precise and clear with regard to your meeting goal, whilst remaining polite, courteous and respectful, will always give you the best chance of the meeting producing concrete results, rapidly and with a positive impact on your relationship with the other person.

It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.

In the United States of America there are twenty-seven million people under twenty-one years of age who receive no Christian training at all. Juvenile crime in the big cities is tremendous—sometimes it seems absolutely out of control. Every week one million people are dying without Jesus. In one minute, eighty-five people pass into eternity. In just the brief span of a church service hundreds are passing out into the presence of God. Does that mean anything to you?

I mean, language fascinates me anyway, and different words have different energies and you can change the whole drive of a sentence.