Quotes About Impact

leaders sometimes make a difference. But it depends on the type of leader, and on the type of effect examined.

Geography shapes history; men only add a little colour to its surface.

What you do is what matters, not what you think or say or plan.

Top-down change without honest feedback from those affected by the change simply will not work.

Disruptive innovation is good. Disruption for the sake of disruption is not. Culture

An ad for cigars appears in 100,000 newspapers; sales of that brand increase by 3% for a short time thereafter. A new play receives a viciously negative review in a theatrical journal that prints 500 copies; the playwright shoots himself. Who's the better writer?

Your dad's story is over. In six months or a year, this will be done for him. He won't be dealing with the consequences of what you choose to do now. You will. So you make this decision based on what you need.

We all make mistakes at some time in our lives, some more than others. It is only when the cost is counted in human lives that people really take notice.

Sometimes, a word succeeds beyond the wildest dreams of its creators, like a virus sent into the world to infect common speech.

Thursday, you mean everything to me. Not just because you're cute, smart, funny and have a devastatingly good figure and boobs to die for, but that you do right for right's sake - it's what you are and what you do. Even if I never get my magnum opus published, I will still die secure in the knowledge that my time on this planet was well-spent - giving support, love and security to someone who actually makes a difference .

Words are all very well," I replied coolly, suddenly enjoying the SO-5 woman-of-mystery stuff, "but a nine-millimeter really gets to the root of the problem.

Loyal and efficient work in a great cause, even though it may not be immediately recognized, ultimately bears fruit

a surefire way to access that unconscious mind: repetition.

He broke the bank with that claim, and he lived up to it. Although he could have mentioned a myriad of other benefits, it was the lack of waiting that hit the bulls-eye for him.

everyone knows at least twelve influential people.

Ratings are virtually meaningless with only two spots a week. It

Which brings us back to the definition of guerrilla networking: becoming the type of person other people want to meet. It

One real truth is that people dislike admitting that they're affected by marketing, so they'll usually give the credit to a friend.

Cf. pp. 448 ff. In an interesting article, "Make Your Marriage a Love Affair," Joyce Brothers makes the following correct observation: "…most people have no idea of the far-reaching consequences of a single change in behavior," Reader's Digest, March, 1973, p. 81.

For the record, you are a very, very good bad influence.

What do Chile, Biafra, the boat people, Bologna, or Poland matter? All of that comes to be annihilated on the television screen. We are in the era of events without consequences (and of theories without consequences).

Bir katliami unutmak da katliam turunden bir seydir.

We are simplified by technical manipulation. And this manipulation goes off on a crazy course when we reach digital manipulation

The cultural greenhouse effect: the toxic cloud caused by emissions from millions of museums, galleries, festivals, conferences and symposiums is much more catastrophic than the disappearance of the ozone layer. The asphyxia caused by the activity of thousands of creative brains damages the quality of life more certainly than all the world's industrial pollution. And if no Tokyo Congress has yet managed to control technological pollution, what body could put a brake on cultural nuisance?