Quotes About Impact

how you act (gravitas), how you speak (communication), and how you look (appearance) count for a lot in determining your leadership presence.

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.

No other job in the world could possibly dispossess one so completely as this job of teaching. You could stand all day in a laundry, for instance, still in possession of your mind. But this teaching utterly obliterates you. It cuts right into your being: essentially, it takes over your spirit. It drags it out from where it would hide.

We will be known forever by the tracks we leave-Dakota Indian proverb

Day One of my life was the day I met you.

Many of us ask what can I, as one person, do, but history shows us that everything good and bad starts because somebody does something or does not do something

We are going to change the world from this point onward, one way or another. Either from what we do, or what we fail to do.

Far and away the biggest threat to the ocean is ignorance. It's a lack of understanding that what we put in, what we take out matters—not just to the ocean, but matters to us. The ocean cannot be regarded as the planet's ultimate dumpster or the ultimate place to get free food.

I thought I could save a very worthwhile person.

Even Henry and Caroline, whom she saw every day, were half hidden under their accumulations--accumulations of prosperity, authority, daily experience. They were carpeted with experience. No new event could set jarring feet on them but they would absorb and muffle the impact. If the boiler burst, if a policeman climbed in at the window waving a sword, Henry and Caroline would bring the situation to heel by their massive experience of normal boilers and normal policemen.

Trauma can warp the brain.

the inevitable and irrevocable consequences of their quiet cruelty. They were just kids, just girls then. They didn't understand that a single act of careless unkindness would have repercussions long after

you can't be ruined by things that others do to you but only by what you do to others.

He wreaked havoc, but his path of destruction was invisible. The girls and I were the casualties of an amnesiac.

Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.

The purpose of our lives is to add value to the people of this generation and those that follow.

People exercise an unconscious selection in being influenced.

In chess, as in life, your choice will make all the difference.

need instead to find people who are in sync with our beat and form a more perfect union with those who hear the same rhythm! It is time for us to find the thing we were created to do, the people we were meant to affect, and the power that comes from alignment with purpose. Having had unique opportunities to sit at the table

Friends, loved ones, and even enemies influence us, but that doesn't mean their comments are relevant to your destiny.

You can live in this world and make all the money you could ever dream of and be as beautiful as you want and be as educated as you please and accomplish whatever you want to, but if you die without accomplishing your purpose, you are a failure, a reject, and a fool.

We claim we are not emotional, yet we are so sensitive that a vicious word from a cruel woman can leave the most manly of us impotent! A cutting statement can undermine the strength, vigor, and vitality of even the strongest of men. Most women greatly underestimate the power of their words to magnify or crush their husbands' strength.

His absence leaves us desperately looking for someone else to "fill in the blank." If the church doesn't do it, the gay community will. If the church doesn't do it, the gangs and drug lords will. If the church doesn't do it, the pornographers will. Empty sons will always look for someone to fill in the blank left by the father who isn't there.

You remarked once in a fit of pique you had made me famous. You were wrong, my dear. You have made me.