Quotes About Impact

Those humble, quiet, behind-the-scenes people are the reason anything ever gets done.

Kindness, like a boomerang, always returns.

It takes so little to make a stranger's day, and even less to totally ruin it.

Nobody can do everything, but everyone can do something.

2 Teach is 2 Touch lives 4 Ever

...teachers touch the future...

There's no one quite like a special teacher, and no teacher quite as special as you.

In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.

Those who tell the stories rule society.

Words — so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them!

My personal aesthetic is to be affected directly by everything about what you're seeing… I don't mind being dashed on the rocks… My most base act of defiance is to live a long time and still rock.

I think music is the greatest art form that exists, and I think people listen to music for different reasons, and it serves different purposes. Some of it is background music, and some of it is things that might affect a person's day, if not their life, or change an attitude. The best songs are the ones that make you feel something.

If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior.

Is constructive criticism really constructive? Not really. You can't make a child better by pointing out what you think is wrong with him or her. Criticism either crushes spirit or elicits defensiveness. Constructive criticism is an interesting combination of words. "Construct" means "to build." "Criticism" means "to tear down" It creates defiance and anger as well.

As a culture, we seem to have an intolerance for suffering; we tend to want those who have experienced a loss of any kind to get on with their lives as quickly as possible. Often, by minimizing the impact of significant losses, pathologizing those whose reactions are intense, and applauding those who seem relatively unaffected by tragic events, we encourage the inhibition of our own grief.

A thick head can do as much damage as a hard heart.

Troy had never been till I came here

As the golden news spread beyond California to the outside world, it triggered the most astonishing mass movement of peoples since the Crusades. From all over the planet they came—from Mexico and Peru and Chile and Argentina, from Oregon and Hawaii and Australia and New Zealand and China, from the American North and the American South, from Britain and France and Germany and Italy and Greece and Russia.

He was not a warm person, but he seemed to be, which in politics was more important.

Be responsible with the energy put out into the universe

Constructive or destructive, the choice is ours

Like a trained surgeon who is careful where he cuts, parents, too, need to become skilled in the use of words. Because words are like knives. They can inflict, if not physical, many painful emotional wounds.

Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression.

While parents possess the original key to their offspring's experience, teachers have a spare key. They, too, can open or close the minds and hearts of children.