Quotes About Impact

When promotion and staffing decisions are being made, the best advocate you can have is a customer who doesn't want to live without you. On the flip side, imagine the impact of a customer who thinks you are condescending. Your customer represents the needs of the business, and you are paid to provide for those needs. Don't forget this.

It is strange how ideas can float about and be ignored until they are put into a book. A book can be a weapon...

It was no joy waking up after a dream about that man. He left a taste of thunder in my mouth.

For each of us has a perch on the tree. After we are gone, that perch is marked by a notch, permanent, yes, but with its edges muting over time, assuming the tree is ever growing. Years from now someone can see that you were here, or there, and although you had little conception or care for the wider branching, in the next life there might be a sigh of wonder at how quietly flourishing it all was, if never majestic.

It struck her how a man could seem to gain a little bit of magic or grace or virtue with every woman he was with, but that a woman--though she said maybe should should be fair and just speak for herself--relinquished something each time, even if it ended mutually and well.

Does any program really improve anybody, as much as simply identifying them? And, after identifying them, not ruining them?

He gave me a look sure to put frost on anyone's pumpkin.

There's no way you can kill someone and get to the other side of the experience unchanged.

We can't leave this world without leaving a lot of detritus behind. We never go out as cleanly as we come in; and even when we come in, there's the afterbirth.

Eric will survive your absence,(…) but you may not survive your presence.

If you feel that your father was lacking as a husband, it affects your own choice of man.

From the beginning, with our first album, we wanted to make the music that maybe was lacking around us - the music that we wanted to hear.

I feel really proud of myself for helping to put the ladies' game out there.

I think Li Na and some other Chinese ladies have done so many amazing things for Asian tennis.

A great performance like Lady Macbeth may be forgotten. Writing endures.

I'm all for having an empowered first lady who can really use that position to improve conditions, be a role model and make change.

The First Lady has a lot of power. I hope Hillary Clinton realizes that.

You get tarred with the brush of 'Lady in Red.' I play Russia or China or places all over the world. They don't even speak English but they know the words. You get a big song like that, and people love it or hate it. And if they don't like it, they don't like anything at all by the artist.

When Lady Gaga says I am her inspiration, you reach kids between 12 and 18. Now I am like a brand - jeans, Coca-Cola.

When I was about 10 years old, the 'Ricki Lake show' aired in Israel, and it was the first time I was exposed to American reality culture.

I think if all three of my boys get on the Lakers somehow, they would change the NBA.

I can't tell you how many letters I get from grandmothers who say, 'It's the only thing I can talk to my 15-year-old grandson about.' The Lakers are more than just a basketball team to this city. They're part of this community.

You've got to use your celebrity for good stuff, not evil. I think it's lame when people act as if they're better than everyone!

Nobody has a magic lamp which can tell you in advance whether what you say will be effective in persuading an audience.