Quotes About Impact

You want to be a hero," he repeated. "You want to be one of those rare human beings who make history, rather than merely watch it flow around them like water around a rock.

A human being on this world, Duane realized with a shock of recognition approaching vertigo, made no more permanent impression than does a hand thrust in water. Remove the hand, and water rushes in to fill the void as if nothing had ever been there.

Sometimes I think that remembering too much history is like alcohol or heroin—an addiction that seems to give meaning to your life but just wears you down and destroys you in the end.

The road turns and starts climbing where he impacted," said Cameron. Dar winced slightly. He hated the verb-use of nouns such as impact.

We all want to leave monuments

It is the nature of trauma that, when left untreated, it deepens over time.

secret wears away at a family until it is very nearly destroyed; parents with the best of intentions make selfish decisions affecting the fate of their child.

Except that secrets, particularly the most deeply held ones, have a way of leaching into everything surrounding them.

If it wasn't thought, it wasn't so. If it wasn't spoken, it hadn't happened. Except that secrets, particularly the most deeply held ones, have a way of leaching into everything surrounding them.

I felt so skinless at times! Things hit me so hard!

Lo que constituye la salvación de un hombre, es la ruina de otro

And here I must observe again, that this necessity of going out of our houses to buy provisions was in a great measure the ruin of the whole city

Visionary leaders help people to see how their work fits into the big picture, lending people a clear sense not just that what they do matters, but also why.

shapes those feelings.

As we all know from experience, when it comes to shaping our decisions and our actions, feeling counts every bit as much—and often more—than thought.

We catch feelings from one another as though they were some kind of social virus.

The journey's end is to understand what it means—and how—to bring intelligence to emotion. This understanding itself can help to some degree; bringing cognizance to the realm of feeling has an effect something like the impact of an observer at the quantum level in physics, altering what is being observed.

beneficial impact on our health, while toxic ones can act like slow poison in our bodies.

Researchers find that the prevalence of obesity in the United States over the last thirty years tracks the explosion of computers and tech gadgets in people's lives—and suspect this is no accidental correlation.

el estrés atonta a la gente».

el ambiente representa casi un tercio de los resultados. Por tanto, es un impacto demasiado importante como para ignorarlo.

Similarly, of all emotional signals, smiles are the most contagious; they have an almost irresistible power to make others smile in return.

las emociones perturbadoras y las relaciones tóxicas han sido identificadas como factores de riesgo que favorecen la aparición de algunas enfermedades.

Yvonne Sell, the Hay Group's director of the leadership and talent practice in the United Kingdom, who did the study, found such leaders are rare: only 18 percent of executives attained this level. Three-quarters of leaders with three or fewer strengths in people skills created negative climates, where people felt indifferent or demotivated. Lame leadership seems all too prevalent—more than half of leaders fell within this low-impact category.