Quotes About Impact

Technology is changing the way we live and we work and we think. It's going to transform the world, and yet I think there is an alarming sort of disconnect between the world of public policy-making, and the world of technology.

What always happens, in my experience, is that people always think American politics is very different, but usually it is a predictor of what happens in the politics elsewhere.

Force rules the world, and not opinion; but opinion is that which makes use of force

Some vices only lay hold of us by means of others, and these, like branches, fall on removal of the trunk.

Words differently arranged have a different meaning and meanings differently arranged have a different effect.

There are some who speak well and write badly. For the place and the audience warm them, and draw from their minds more than they think of without that warmth.

Cleopatra's nose, had it been shorter, the whole face of the world would have been changed.

The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.

Kind words don't cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

UN TÍTULO CONTUNDENTE

Un título contundente. El doble gancho de una buena premisa ha de incluir un gran título, uno que «diga de qué va» y lo haga de forma ingeniosa.

Do you think she was gay before or after she started watching Xena?" the male squirrel asked. "That subtext works like a nasty termite. It undermines the structure of human females from within.

Funny what a difference one successful phone conversation can make!

Communication is about being effective, not always about being proper.

You can't build a small giant if you're in an industry where your success depends on how big your company becomes.

They were also interested in being great at what they did, creating a great place to work, providing great service to customers, having great relationships with their suppliers, making great contributions to the communities they lived and worked in, and finding great ways to lead their lives.

These companies were searching for something indefinable and immeasurable, something that went beyond the standard definitions of success in business, something that could easily be lost unless it was protected against the homogenizing influences brought to bear on every company. I call that quality mojo. (See the introduction.) If you are not involved in helping to generate mojo, you have nothing to contribute except, perhaps, capital, and the capital usually comes at too high a price.

And the influence ran both ways. The companies shaped their respective communities, and the communities shaped them.

He remembered a story he'd once heard about a girl throwing starfish into the ocean. "An old man comes along and says to her, 'Don't bother. There's millions of them out here. You can't save them. What you're doing won't make a difference.' She looks at the starfish in her hand and says, 'It makes a difference to this one.' And she throws it into the ocean. Lily was one of my starfish.

The point here is that such policies affect not only the way that people feel about the company but also the relationships among the employees themselves—indeed, the whole texture of life inside the business.

Nous sommes si liés au monde du travail que nous ne voyons guère le mal qu'il nous fait. Il nous faut compter sur des observateurs venus d'autres âges ou d'autres cultures pour apprécier l'extrême gravité pathologique de notre situation présente.

When Christians criticize, carp, and complain but offer no alternatives, the world rolls its eyes, snickers, and moves on. It is really only when we offer a 'more excellent way' that we command or deserve much attention.

Sitting in the pews wringing our hands about decay in the world is not being salt. Neither is decrying the evil without offering positive alternatives.

Don't get me wrong. There are times when following the call of God demands that we speak out loudly against flagrant evil. But if that's all we do, particularly if most of our speaking out is only to each other, we are not being salt. The way to be salt is to replace evil with good, not just to sound off against the evil.