Quotes About Impact

Lazy poets try to elicit a reader's response with words designed to tug at the heart.

I think that when we're young we often have the sense that what we do when faced with a choice will define our lives forever. This can be untrue, sometimes amusingly so, but not always.

Small things change a life. Change lives.

That felt strange. How sharp a rent a handful of moments made in the fabric of a life.

When you didn't say a lot, he thought, you said the important things.

The truer measure of power, Brandin had once said to her, wouldn't be found in having twenty heralds deafen a room by proclaiming one's arrival. Any fool in funds for a day could rivet attention that way. The more testing course, the truer measure, was to enter unobtrusively and observe what happened.

A dangerous man." "Most useful men are dangerous.

It is in the nature of things that when we judge actions to be memorably courageous, they are invariably those that have an impact that resonates: saving other lives at great risk, winning a battle, losing one's life in a valiant attempt to do one or the other. A death of that sort can lead to songs and memories at least as much—sometimes more—than a triumph. We celebrate our losses, knowing how they are woven into the gift of our being here. Sometimes

If you have to put someone on a pedestal, put teachers. They are society's heroes.

If you're an entrepreneur and you think that the president makes a difference to your business, you should stay at your current job.

Simple and to the point is always the best way to get your point across.

The first good reason to write a book is to add value to people's lives.

What I liked about American movies when I was a kid was that they're sort of larger than life and I think I'm still suffering from that reaction.

Let us face it: in the world today, money and economic strength remain more powerful arguments than the number of people you represent.

The weather reduces everyone to platitudes.

To err is human. To arr is pirate … What a difference a single misplaced letter can make.

But language is power. Words do make a difference. They can reinforce stereotypes, cause offense, undermine, hurt, and humiliate. You don't have to wrap everything you say in cotton wool, but you should choose your words carefully. Good communication is about courtesy and kindness as well as clarity and getting your message across.

You save an old man and you save a unit; but save a boy, and you save a multiplication table.

Las discordias de políticos profesionales siempre tienen consecuencias. En el camino de Morena serán más importantes los pleitos de sus políticos profesionales, escondidos hoy bajo la sombra de la unidad y la adhesión a su líder, que los desacuerdos de los seguidores.

Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.

For him knowledge did not describe; it acted and accomplished.

In science as in life, it is well known that a chain of events can have a point of crisis that could magnify small changes.

He must have kicked the door open because it flew back viciously against the rubber stop and rebounded almost into his face.

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