Quotes About Impact

Please, put aside all excuses and ask yourself, "What should I be doing?" Yes, you alone can make a difference. The question is, will you?

A wise man's goal shouldn't be to say something profound, but to say something useful.

God, in His wisdom, has so linked the whole human family together that any violence done at one end of the chain is felt throughout its length.

The point is, stories can be all lengths. Never underestimate the power of "less is more.

Once sent out, a word takes wings beyond recall.

I cannot think of the results of your labors without shame at the little we do.

Everything is infectious in this world, good or bad.

if you want to do a great or a good work, do not trouble to think what the result will be.

In the ocean we cannot raise a wave without causing a hollow somewhere else.

We forget what missiles our words are, how much damage we can cause with one thoughtless comment between the coffee and the toast.

tener un jefe amable no necesariamente significa que tenga un buen jefe, y mucho menos que sea capaz de darle un verdadero empujón a su carrera.

la velocidad del líder es la velocidad de la banda".

In a real sense, all of us are "the parents" of all young children - because we help shape the culture and determine its values.

Ah, you flavor everything; you are the vanilla of society.

It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little - do what you can.

It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little; do something.

Jika anda membuat seseorang bahagia hari ini, Anda juga membuat dia berbahagia dua puluh tahun lagi, saat ia mengenang peristiwa itu.

It has taken about four billion years for living systems, mostly in the sea, to transform the lifeless ingredients of early Earth into the Eden that makes our lives possible, and less than a century for us to destabilize those rhythms.

Let's talk trash…. Only we humans make waste that nature can't digest.

Even smaller pieces are engulfed by inch-long krill; ant-size copepods; and filter-feeding salps, clams, oysters, and mussels. Large plankton feeders such as whale sharks and manta rays swallow gallons of water at a time, plastic and all. Whether at the large, medium, small, or ultra-small scale, ingested plastic lumps, clumps, pellets, or microscopic mites kill by physically obstructing, choking, clogging, or otherwise stopping up the passage of food.

A report from the National Academy of Sciences published five years later reported that over 6 billion kilograms (14 billion pounds) of garbage were deliberately dumped into the sea every year.

The problem is the magnitude of synthetic materials that are used briefly, then thrown away for eternity, thereby permanently changing the nature of the world.

But there's another, much darker, way in which Sylvia Earle helps us understand the size of the ocean. And that's to point out that, vast as it is, it's not so big that we can't screw it up.

It is executive presence—and no man or woman attains a top job, lands an extraordinary deal, or develops a significant following without this heady combination of confidence, poise, and authenticity that convinces the rest of us we're in the presence of someone who's the real deal. It's an amalgam of qualities that telegraphs that you are in charge or deserve to be.