Quotes About Impact

Sometimes people come into your life. Not to love you.. But to make you feel you are worth loving.

There will be a few times in your life when your attitude is the little thing that makes a big difference.

I have known a lady, John, who was delivered of a blackamoor child, merely from the circumstance of having got a start by the sudden entrance of her negro servant, and not being able to forget him for several hours

What usually has the strongest psychic effect on the child is the life which the parents . . . have not lived." Carl Jung

Sticks and stones may break our bones, but names will break our spirit.

There were times when Prewitt felt a special quality in himself, a strange unpleasant quality that seemed to force everyone he touched into making drastic decisions about their own lives, no wonder people did not like to be around him.

I fear those big words, Stephen said, which make us so unhappy.

I care not if I live but a day and a night, so long as my deeds live after me.

The Gulf Stream waters of Woody Guthrie's famous song were strung with columns of oil that were several miles long.

I made her talk about her family, her home, her music, and her work, everything that defined who she was before Bobby Joe had touched her with his probing hands.

A category 5 hurricane carries an explosive force several times greater than that of the atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945.

We don't care what people say, rock and roll is here to stay,'" he said. "That's from Danny and the Juniors, the greatest single line in the history of music.

For some reason, each moment I spent with him made me feel that I had been diminished.

how many decisions did you make that at the time seemed inconsequential but down the track had enormous influence on either you or others?

Individuals don't change history. History finds the individual. John Steinbeck said that.

I also figuredd out that what we call our destiny is usually determined by two or three casual decision which on the surface seem about as important as spitting your gum through a sewer grate.

Glaciers and volcanoes both have the potential to transform landscapes, but one does so by burying what lies beneath, where the other spews forth new terrain.

if you want to have a significant impact on people, on organizations, and on communities, you'd be wise to invest in learning the behaviors that enable you to become the very best leader you can.

Leadership has an impact on people's commitment, their desire to stay or leave, their willingness to put forth more discretionary effort, and their inclination to take personal initiative and responsibility. Bad leaders have a dampening effect on these things, and exemplary leaders have just the opposite effect. What sort of difference do you want to achieve through your leadership? The choice is yours.

Un líder accede al corazón y a la mente de la gente, no solo a su bolsillo.

The Civil War marked a milestone in the transformation of nursing from a menial service to a genuine profession.

James MacGregor Burns

White folks got insane after the Old Man done his bit, they went on a rampage and attacked coloreds for miles. They was scared outta their minds. I reckon in some fashion, they ain't been the same since.

In the end, every person's life is a tough act to follow.