Quotes About Impact

He will literally kick my butt so hard I'll be tasting my own asshole for weeks.

Great, you ruined my life and you don't even remember it.

Dreams shouldn't be about what you can buy--they should be about what mark you leave in the world.

Stuff comes and stuff goes and the only thing that matters in the end is who you are inside, what you do and what make it leaves in the world.

I want to make a difference. But get a job? I worry that will make the ordinary, like everybody else.

But it is a very difficult thing to change the future. The slightest turn of phrase…action and the human soul. The future changes direction based on those things.

I came to understand that while many of us might default to measuring our lives by summary statistics, such as number of people presided over, number of awards, or dollars accumulated in a bank, and so on, the only metrics that will truly matter to my life are the individuals whom I have been able to help, one by one, to become better people.

People who truly love what they do and who think their work is meaningful have a distinct advantage when they arrive at work every day. They throw their best effort into their jobs, and it makes them very good at what they do. This

Figure I.1 The Impact of Sustaining and Disruptive Technological Change

Make no mistake: a culture happens, whether you want it to or not. The only question is how hard you are going to try to influence it.

These three parts—likeness, commitment, and metrics—comprise a company's purpose. Companies that aspire to positive impact must never leave their purpose to chance. Worthy purposes rarely emerge inadvertently; the world is too full of mirage, paradox, and uncertainty to leave this to fate. Purpose must be deliberately conceived and chosen, and then pursued.

Pues esto no es nada risible. Se trata sólo de un arco y una flecha, pero no es risible. Pudo haberlo sido en otro tiempo, pero la historia destruyó la comicidad de muchas cosas. Si el arco es un chiste, también lo es entonces la bomba atómica y lo mismo el polvo pestífero que barrió ciudades enteras, y lo mismo el cohete sibilante que se eleva y cae a quince mil kilómetros de distancia matando a un millón de personas.

And the wrench clinched everything.

aimed not at military concentrations, but at total populations. He

March-April 1935 issue of Crawford's Marvel Tales, and it probably was not seen by more than a few hundred people. But

Who can call a man dead whose words still hush and whose sentiments move?

He wouldn't be remembered well.

He liked the phrase "mother's tit." It said so much, so simply. Momma's tit had a good deal more power to move these men than her apple pie.

You leave marks on people, Gentle. That's a responsibility you can't just shrug off.

Maybe if they didn't tell you the stories ... they'd actually go out and do it.

Who can call a man dead whose words still hush us and whose sentiments move?

Lügen schmerzen, die Wahrheit jedoch bewegt uns.

And nobody has ever gotten emotional over a James Patterson novel.

Se houve um momento fatal no destino da Rota da Seda, talvez não tenha sido a tomada de Constantinopla, nem o enclausuramento da China pelos Ming, nem o desembarque de Colombo, mas sim o dia, algures no século X, em que um chinês desconhecido descobriu a bússola marítima.