Quotes About Impact

power with multiplies individual talents, knowledge, and resources to make a larger impact.

At some point, if everything on the list is important, then nothing is truly a driver for you.

Trying to avoid media messages is like holding your breath to avoid air pollution—it's not going to happen.

At the end of the day, at the end of the week, at the end of my life, I want to say I contributed more than I criticized. It's that simple.

Emotional upheavals touch every part of our lives. You don't just lose a job, you don't just get divorced. These things affect all aspects of who we are—our financial situation, our relationships with others, our views of ourselves, our issues of life and death. Writing helps us

Maybe looking away is about privilege. I need to think harder and longer about my choices and recognize that choosing whom I see and whom I don't see is one of the most hurtful functions of privilege.

Research on emotion shows that positive emotions wear off quickly.

The best definition of power comes from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. He described power as the ability to achieve our purpose and to effect change.

The best definition of power comes from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. He described power as the ability to achieve our purpose and to effect change. If we question our need for power, think about this: How do you feel when you believe that you are powerless to change something in your life? Powerlessness is dangerous.

I've learned enough about privilege to know that we're at our most dangerous when we think we've learned everything we need to know about it.

Real power is basically the ability to change something if you want to change it. It's the ability to make change happen. Real power is unlimited—we don't need to fight over it because there is plenty to go around. And the great thing about real power is our ability to create it. Real power doesn't force us to take it away from others—it's something we create and build with others. When we talk about

Every time we choose courage, we make everyone around us a little better and the world a little braver.

Luther King Jr. He described power as the ability to effect change. If we question our need for power, think about this: How do you feel when you believe that you are powerless to change something in your life?

Perfectionism never happens in a vacuum. It touches everyone around us. We pass it down to our children, we infect our workplace with impossible expectations, and it's suffocating for our friends and families.

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Oh, the audacity of authenticity. You're going to confuse, piss-off and terrify lots of people – including yourself.

Courage has a ripple effect. Every time we choose courage, we make everyone around us a litter better and the world a little braver. And our world could stand to be a little kinder and braver.

Every time we choose courage we make everyone around us a little better and the world a little braver. And our world could stand to be a little braver and a little kinder.

I never would have believed a guy—any guy—could affect me like this.

Me exploding at my mother who explodes at me because the explosion of some dark star all the way back struck hard at mother's mother's mother.

In every encounter we either give life or we drain it. There is no neutral exchange.

Life can be taken out of others in rivulets and drops, in the small daily failures of inattention, that bitterest fruit of self-absorption, as surely as by terrible strokes to their hearts.

When preached purely, His Word exalts, frightens, shocks, and forces us to reassess our whole life.

We Americans make up only 5 percent of the world's population, but each year we consume almost half of the world's production of natural resources.