Quotes About Impact

But these most visible leadership abilities build not just on empathy, but also on managing ourselves and sensing how what we do affects others.

la Universidad de Duke.10 Por ejemplo, Williams descubrió que los médicos que obtuvieron las puntuaciones más elevadas en un test de hostilidad realizado cuando todavía eran estudiantes mostraban, alrededor de los cincuenta años, un índice de mortalidad siete veces mayor que quienes habían obtenido puntuaciones más bajas.

Cuando el líder no sabe empatizar ni interpretar adecuadamente las emociones ajenas genera disonancia y

Lo pequeño es hermoso: economía como si la gente importase.

Leaders who display just the pacesetting or command style—or both—but not any others create a toxic climate, one that dispirits those they lead. Such leaders may get short-term results through personal heroics, like going out and getting a deal themselves, but do so at the expense of building their organizations.

Is it just for me, or for others? For the benefit of the few, or the many? For now, or for the future?

This is what it means to serve: improving another's life and, in turn, improving the world.

A note, who writes a note like that? Who were you to write one to me? it boomed inside me the whole time, an explosion over and over, the joy of what you wrote to me jumpy shrapnel in my bloodstream. I can't have it near me anymore, I'm grenading it back to you, as soon as I unfold it and read it and cry one more time. Because me too, and fuck you. Even now.

I was so angry I knew it would boomerang someplace sometime soon.

Dammit, Flora, why do you always ruin everything? A prophetic remark. I hope you picked up on that.

Voy a tirar la caja entera de nuevo en tu vida, Ed, cada objeto tuyo y mío. Voy a tirarla en tu porche, Ed, aunque es a ti a quien estoy tirando.

This teaching job did not pay a lot of money, because, let's face it, nobody gives a flying fuck about education

Challenging our sacred beliefs is both frightening and difficult, but we must do it. It is wrong to live in a laissez faire, relativistic or "pan-agnostic" bubble, where we refuse to face these paramount issues. The truth matters, and the consequences of not possessing it are unstoppable, and often destructive (whether we can see the harm or not). It is even a greater moral imperative to sort through the issues that have a serious impact on us, either individually or socially.

The psychologist, Paul Rozin, an expert on disgust, observed that a single cockroach will completely wreck the appeal of a bowl of cherries, but a cherry will do nothing at all for a bowl of cockroaches.

Whatever happens to me, I will have lived a thousand normal lives by what I might add to others not yet born.

Whatever happens to me, I will have lived a thousand normal lives by what I might add to others not yet born. That's enough.

Whatever happens to me, I will have lived a thousand normal lives by what I might add to others not yet born. That's enough.

It's not MAN who is the scourge of the world, it's a single culture. One culture out of hundreds of thousands of cultures. Our culture.

the story of our agricultural revolution as told by some of the earliest victims of that revolution.

When Jesus departed, he left no one behind who was the message.

If you alone found out what the lie was, then you're probably right - it would make no great difference. But if you ALL found out what the lie was, it might conceivably make a very great difference indeed.

I can confidently predict that if the world is saved, it will not be because some old minds came up with some new programs. Programs never stop the things they're launched to stop. No program has ever stopped poverty, drug abuse, or crime, and no program ever will stop them. And no program will ever stop us from devastating the world.

We're not destroying the world because we're clumsy. We're destroying the world because we are, in a very literal and deliberate way, at war with it.

But he liked to leave me laughing. This is how he wanted to remember me, and how he wanted to be remembered. Of all his great powers, this was perhaps his most extraordinary: at any time, at the drop of a hat, he could really break me up. T