Quotes About Impact

What happens in a noble court or an enclosed temple affects only the priveleged few. That's not change, but indulgence.

I want to make a difference, Shan thought, but not yet. I'm not ready.

She herself now has the power to make the sequence of messages run into one flowing nation; the drop of water will fall and explode upon impact, iniating new sequences, which will be confronted in the future.

At his appearance, the environment around him seemed to slow to utter stillness, and become bleached of colour.

Her daughter was not related in blood to Ellony Leckery, yet it seemed as if she'd somehow managed to inherit her namesake's rather fey nature. Pharinet, Valraven's sister, insisted young Ellony was far stronger, braver, and more robust than the original, but there was no doubt she was highly sensitive, and sometimes this affected her badly.

More than anything, he liked to experience the effect he had on other people.

I thought I could make a weapon out of you. It was not my desire to make you a force for the good particularly, just a force for effect.

Humanity without our presence in their midst, would be like the world without sun or moon.

He's scorched us, Ninka. We are just memories of his power.

Poor waifs. They lived in a fantasy world. How would his intrusion affect it? He hoped to find out very soon.

He wanted to feel the touch of those hands himself, discover whether it would affect him in the same way.

Just when it seemed he must break through the surface and avail himself of the welcome wine of air, something heavy and dark come plummeting through the water and collided with him.

She wished for what would happen to be something incredible and life-changing. She wished for it to be important.

The bloody times, the horror, will just be history to them, words on a page, so how will they dare to judge? Very easily, I should imagine.

you have no idea how many people there are in the world whose day could be made and their life changed for the better if someone would just look them in the eye, smile, and say, "Hello.

Far too many people don't think about what they say until it smacks them in the throat.

If I had been elected president in 1948, history would be vastly different. I believe we would have stemmed the growth of Big Government, which had begun with the New Deal and culminated with the Great Society.

We are agents who alter the unfolding of the universe.

Peterson revealed that he had decided the only way to get attention was "to frighten the hell out of everybody pianistically.

It was the kind of moment on which the wheels of history turn.

The funny thing about saying something in anger is that once it has been said, it cannot be unsaid. The second it's floating in the ether, it's there forever. Hanging there, like a sword.

The war was fun for America. I'm not talking about the poor souls who lost sons and daughters. But for the rest of us, the war was a hell of a good time. Farmers in South Dakota that I administered relief to and gave 'em bully beef and four dollars a week to feed their families, when I came home were worth a quarter-million dollars, right? It's forgotten now.

A beast always succeeds in gaining attention....

Tell me about a time when: You saw someone You yourself practiced Or you were influenced by good leadership? What happened? What are some of the key things you remember about this experience? How did this person's leadership affect the community/team/company in a positive way? How did it affect you? In order to affect the future in a positive way, what trait, ability, skill, characteristic do you want a leader to have?