Quotes About Impact

Men who had poetry in their soul come silently into the world and live quietly down the years, and yet when they are gone no moon in the sky is lucid enough to compare with the light they shed when they are among the living.

Good is somebody who delivered and allowed the company to overcome obstacles, without leaving a profound impact on its culture. Great is somebody who leads his company to achievements and performance and value that nobody was expecting it had.

Os livros mudam o destino das pessoas

Bücher verändern das Schicksal der Menschen. So mancher hat "Der Tiger von Malaysia" gelesen und ist an einer fernen Universität Dozent für Literatur geworden. "Siddharta" hat Zehntausende Jugendliche zum Hinduismus geführt, Hemingway hat sie zu Sportlern gemacht, Dumas hat das Leben Tausender Frauen auf den Kopf gestellt und nicht wenige sind durch ein Kochbuch vor dem Selbstmord bewahrt worden.

Memories are worse than bullets.

The words with which a child's heart is poisoned, whether through malice or through ignorance, remain branded in his memory, and sooner or later they burn his soul.

Once, in my father's bookshop, I heard a regular customer say that few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than the first book that finds its way into his heart. Those first images, the echo of words we think we have left behind, accompany us throughout our lives and sculpt a palace in our memory to which, sooner or later—no matter how many books we read, how many worlds we discover, or how much we learn or forget—we will return.

All that is necessary for evil to prevail is for good people to do nothing.

Leadership comes in small acts as well as bold strokes.

Mindful communication is about becoming aware of the ways you send information into the world. When you are conscious of the messages you project, you understand the effect that your words and actions have on others.

If I were president? First thing I'd do is take care of the schoolteachers. I'm not saying we should start 'em out with six figures, but in some places they've got to be mother, father, brother, sister, and mentor. They're real important people. Let's give 'em a raise -- and attract the best people to the job.

If one mouse is a spark...then ten thousand are a conflagration.

There's no way of calculating how many ramifications a story will take on once one spies a gleam of attention in another's eyes.

Passion isn't enough, but when passion meets aptitude it can change the world.

The 18-minute rule isn't simply a good exercise to learn discipline. It's critical to avoid overloading your audience. Remember, constrained presentations require more creativity.

The sequence that made Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Dream Speech" the greatest speech of the twentieth century had all been improvised. The words "I have a dream" are not in the original copy of the speech!

When you change the way you see yourself as a speaker, the speaker your audience sees will change." CARMINE GALLO You

las historias sincronizan de hecho nuestra mente con las del público, lo que permite crear conexiones mucho más profundas e importantes que lo que nunca hemos experimentado antes.

alcanzar momentos de asombro, y prestaremos especial atención a aquellos oradores que minuciosa y deliberadamente diseñan y ejecutan instantes deslumbrantes de los que quienes asisten a sus charlas siguen hablando años más tarde.

duración ideal para transmitir nuestras ideas.

The poet Maya Angelou famously said people will forget what you said and what you did, but they'll never forget how you made them feel.

7 percent of a person's message is conveyed through words and 93 percent is conveyed nonverbally (38 percent vocal tone; 55 percent body language).

Humor plays a key role in the playbooks of the world's most inspiring public speakers.

Apple makes computers but its employees believe in the company's bigger vision, which is to make tools to improve people's lives