Quotes About Impact

A mission statement describes what you make; a vision is how you will make the world a better place.

Steve Jobs always believed in the beauty of his dreams to change the world. Do you believe in yours?

A person can have the greatest idea in the world—completely different and novel—but if that person can't convince enough other people, it doesn't matter. —GREGORY BERNS

Churchill proved that one person can make a difference. One person can save a civilization. But no person has a chance to persuade the greatest number of people if they cannot explain their ideas with short, well-chosen words.

la verdadera magia de una presentación memorable reside en que el orador deje de lado sus notas, hable con el corazón y permita que el público se asome a su propia alma.

Great communicators reach your head and touch your heart.

Apple wants to reach your heart instead of your wallet.

Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true. It could make something happen.

This was Maude's legacy; she left Alice with her heart weakened, its chambers bruised. She was no longer up to the enthusiasm required by love.

She had probably been too intense, always trying to shake sense into whomever, then bewildered when, instead of revising their beliefs or being galvanized into action, they simply chose to be friends with someone else.

It was the first smile of my life. Of course, that is a ridiculous thing to say; I had been smiled at often, the big man had smiled at me not a minute since. And yet I say: it was the first smile, because it was the first that ever went straight into me like a needle too thin to be seen.

Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.

Our legacy is really the lives we touch, the inspiration we give, altering someone's plan---if even for a moment---and getting them to think, rage, cry, laugh, argue...Walk around the block, dazed...More than anything, we are remembered for our smiles; the ones we share with our closest and dearest, and the ones we bestow on a total stranger, who needed it RIGHT THEN, and God put you there to deliver. ---Carrie Louise Hamilton, dedication page

Many efforts on behalf of animals will qualitatively improve humans' living conditions as well, which is likely to be the case.

I suggest that the representation of women deserves a much higher consideration in our religious discourse. When words are presented as if they come directly from God, they can have monumental impact on our psyches, our spirits, our hearts, and our relationships. Women are given, in story at least, first place in the lifeboats, but often in more common circumstances we are consigned to the back of the bus.

People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

No one ever does notice the lives of others unless they affect their own lives, Sofia reflected.

We are alive, but what is left of us?

We're failing our children with education, we're failing our environment.

If you can understand human behavior, it can't hurt you nearly as much.

How can one belief lead to all this—the love of challenge, belief in effort, resilience in the face of setbacks, and greater (more creative!) success? In the chapters that follow, you'll see exactly how this happens: how the mindsets change what people strive for and what they see as success. How they change the definition, significance, and impact of failure. And how they change the deepest meaning of effort.

Or: "The ideal student values knowledge for its own sake, as well as for its instrumental uses. He or she hopes to make a contribution to society at large.

Essa tradição demonstra também como a mudança das crenças individuais, mesmo as mais simples, é capaz de produzir efeitos profundos.

Anyone's childhood can be an act of disablement if rehearsed and replayed and squinted at in a certain light. . .