Quotes About Impact

Strange when that part in you is touched how quickly you can fall apart. It's as if the words that are being said go to the deepest place, the place in you that's become the way you've become so you can keep on going. The helmet you put on when you were a kid that grew into your head and now someone is saying you have a helmet on your head.

Why else do we live, except to be loved and remembered by those we love?

I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon.

Words... They're innocent, neutral, precise, standing for this, describing that, meaning the other, so if you look after them you can build bridges across incomprehension and chaos. But when they get their corners knocked off, they're no good any more... I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little or make a poem which children will speak for you when you're dead.

There's nothing more embarrassing than a person who tries to guess what the great American public would like, makes a compromise for the first time, and falls flat on his face… I would rather be a failure on my own terms than a success on someone else's. That's a difficult statement to live up to, but then I've always believed that the way you affect your audience is more important than how many of them are there.

I've never met anyone who made it with a chick because they owned a Tom Waits album. I've got all three, and it's never helped me.

I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things

Someone, somewhere right now is thinking about You!

If Samuel Sharpe had been trying to seize the attention of the mother country – just as Nat Turner had given the American South a brief window through which to reconsider slavery – he succeeded far beyond what he might have hoped. Never before had enslaved people spoken so loudly in Britain.

While this aspect of self-awareness is no doubt useful, a more consequential side concerns understanding how you affect others and, in turn, what others think of you. As the poet Maya Angelou noted, "When someone shows you who they are, believe them." In that sense, self-awareness is really about other-awareness, and people with higher EQs are better able to understand how their actions affect and are perceived by others.

This book explores a central question: what if these two observations - that most leaders are bad and that most leaders are male - are casually linked?

La pedra, i no els pensaments, és el que fa cercles en el gorg.

I'm a believer in belief. Faith is something that works - it causes people to do things, it has results. It's an intangible, indefinable, very real thing. And it moves people, sometimes to atrocity. And sometimes to survival.

Remember, when you make a choice, you also choose the consequences of that choice.

Now let's move a little deeper into the concept of Genius, and in particular, how it applies to your work. Your area of Genius is the specific point where what you enjoy doing most intersects with what you do best. This is where you are capable of making the greatest contribution in the world. Excellence is inevitable once you find this Genius.

Words are to be taken seriously. I try to take seriously acts of language. Words set things in motion. I've seen them doing it. Words set up atmospheres, electrical fields, charges. I've felt them doing it. Words conjure. I try not to be careless about what I utter, write, sing. I'm careful about what I give voice to.

Words are to be taken seriously. I try to take seriously acts of language. Words set things in motion.

O ódio lesa a pessoa que o sente (...) o seu alvo nunca sente o seu efeito.

O laço palpável entre eles era uma força com energia própria, que minava a minha.

It's funny—we worry about the big things, about the big decisions we make in our lives, and how they'll affect us. Take this job or that job? Go to school? Marry; don't marry. Move? But it's the little decisions we make that irrevocably destroy us. Dine in or take out? Turn left here or wait a block? Each one of those little decisions drives us toward our end, and we don't even know it.

On the outside it doesn't look like very much happened. A burned girl was in my class for a while. Once I brought her some homework. In class she said my name. Then she was gone. That's pretty much all that happened.

Global warming is too serious for the world any longer to ignore its danger or split into opposing factions on it.

What matters is what works.