Quotes About Impact

there is no such thing as a neutral exchange. You leave someone either a little better or a little worse.

It enriches those who receive, without impoverishing those who give. It happens in a flash and the memory of it sometimes lasts forever.

Cut out modifiers. Cut out connectives. Begin with words that demand attention. "End with words that deserve distinction," says Prof. Barrett Wendell.

I have asked thousands of business people to smile at someone every hour of the day for a week and then come to class and talk about the results.

The two highest levels of influence are achieved when 1) people follow you because of what you've done for them, and 2) people follow you because of who you are. In other words, the highest levels of influence are reached when generosity and trustworthiness surround your behavior.

You are one in seven billion—your progress is not meant for you alone.

Tell your child, your spouse, or your employee that he or she is stupid or dumb at a certain thing, has no gift for it, and is doing it all wrong, and you have destroyed almost every incentive to try to improve.

People remember. And when a message is a mission, they will tell your story to anyone who will hear it—even a stranger at an airport.

In the long run, no one but the originator remembers things such as whose idea it was, who spoke first, or who took the first risk. What people remember is magnanimity.

For better or for worse, you must play your own little instrument in the orchestra of life.

shall pass this way but once; any good, therefore, that I can do or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer nor neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.

We must remember that our children are very much what we make them.

If we do not understand the significance of our presence, we can never give anyone the present of our lives.

Foresee how you are going to begin when the mind is fresh to grasp every word you utter. Foresee what impression you are going to leave last—when nothing else follows to obliterate it.

We have no right to sit silently by while the inevitable seeds are sown for a harvest of disaster to our children, black and white.

Was John Brown simply an episode, or was he an eternal truth? And if a truth, how speaks that truth today?

He was right. And he was an insensitive shit.

Vicarious traumatization. It can happen to those who bear secondary witness to the traumas of others.

If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.

La lingua non ha ossa, ma rompe il dorsol... The tongue has no bones but can break a man's back!

If a book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.

I celebrate art that shakes complacency by the shoulders and shouts, 'Wake up!

My art comforts the disturbed and disturbs the comfortable.

What stays with you longest and deepest? Of curious panics, of hard-fought engagements or sieges tremendous what deepest remains?