Quotes About Impact

Remember, a great tale isn't just about you.  Ultimately, the reader should close your book and feel that a connection has been made, to realize with wonder and delight that "This story is about me.

En un estudio en Estados Unidos, por cada punto que se incrementa la inteligencia emocional, el salario aumenta en 1300 dólares al año (Bradberry y Greaves, 2009).

In reality, there is no such thing as not voting: you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the value of some Diehard's vote.

She had a brainy girls discomfort about her own beauty and its effects on folks.

My chest bumps like a dryer with shoes in it.

It is a fact of life that certain people are corrosive to others' self esteem simply as a function of who and what they are.

There is no such thing as not voting: you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the value of some Diehard's vote.

Can you choose something when you are forcefully and enthusiastically immersed in it at an age when the resources and information necessary for choosing are not yet yours?

You Can't Unring a Bell.

Good literature makes your head throb heartlike

the only real significance she had attached to the memory was that it was funny what stuck with you.

Nuclear weapons and TV have simply intensified the consequences of our tendencies.

As a tourist, you become economically significant but existentially loathsome, an insect on a dead thing.

A real leader can somehow get us to do certain things that deep down we think are good and want to be able to do but usually can't get ourselves to do on our own.

it's plausibly a case of any kind of system that's been under enormous silent pressure for some time, that when the system finally blows the accreted pressure's such that it's almost always a full-scale eruption.

It is a fact of life that certain people are corrosive to others' self esteem simply as a function of who and what they are. The

My father's mood surrounded him like a field and affected any room he occupied, like an odor or a certain cast to the light.

His hands were no bigger than a four-year-old girl's. It was surreal. This massive authoritative figure, with a huge red meaty face and thick walrus mustache and dewlaps and a neck that spilled over the rim of his shirt-collar, and his hands were tiny and pink and hairless and butt-soft, delicate as shells. The hands were the capper. I barely made it out of the office before it started.

we don't take it seriously enough as both a disseminator and a definer of the cultural atmosphere we breathe and process, that many of us are so blinded by constant exposure that we regard TV the way Reagan's lame F.C.C. chairman Mark Fowler professed to see it in 1981, as "just another appliance, a toaster with pictures.

The 80/20 rule asserts that approximately 80 percent of the effects generated by any large system are caused by 20 percent of the variables in that system.

Are not there little chapters in everybody's life, that seem to be nothing, and yet affect all the rest of the history?

Never lose a chance of saying a kind word… An acorn costs nothing; but it may sprout into a prodigious bit of timber.

think of the condition of Europe for twenty years before, where people were fighting, not by thousands, but by millions; each one of whom as he struck his enemy wounded horribly some other innocent heart far away.

It's too bad for us 'literary' enthusiast, but it's the truth nevertheless — pictures tell any story more effectively than words.