Quotes About Impact

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The Costs of War Project at Brown University reports that from 9/11 through 2018, the United States waged war or maintained a military presence in seventy-six nations. That's 39 percent of the world's countries.

The National Center for Women and Policing reported in 2014 that 10 percent of American families experience domestic violence, but for police officers' families, the number is two to four times higher, one of the highest rates in the nation, though given the issue's national coverage a first guess would be that the highest rate involves black football players.

A wisely chosen illustration is almost essential to fasten the truth upon the ordinary mind, and no teacher can afford to neglect this part of his preparation.

The fatal combination of Republican craveness and Democratic cowardice wasn't having an awful effect solely on the U.S. economy. It was proving deeply scarring to the American psyche.

I need to add that my work on multiple intelligences received a huge boost in 1995 when Daniel Goleman published his book on emotional intelligence. I am often confused with Dan. Initially, though Dan and I are longtime friends, this confusion irritated me.

Kids go to school and college and get through, but they don't seem to really care about using their minds. School doesn't have the kind of long term positive impact that it should.

Stories are the single most powerful weapon in a leader's arsenal

You can impress people from a distance but you can impact them only up close.""The more sensitive you become toward sin, the more aware you'll be for the need of godliness and holiness.""The measure of you as a leader is not what you do, but what others do because of what you do.""You teach what you know but you reproduce what you are.""People tell me they want to make the Bible relevant. The Bible's already relevant. You're the one that's irrelevant!

planted seeds—and you're still reaping the harvest from them. Don't ever get so hung up on a specific lesson that you forget this fact: Good teaching—and

Although it is not as famous as Kuhn's SSR, Bas van Fraassen's book The Scientific Image (1980) has certainly had a profound effect on the philosophy of science

It's worth noting that the assumption that something can't happen has the potential to make it happen, since people who believe it can't happen will engage in risky behaviour, and thus alter the environment.

I've never read a political poem that's accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen, but rarely what the poet wants.

Large or small, our actions forge our futures, hopefully inspiring others along the way.

A well-built brand is the culmination of intangibles that do not directly flow to the revenue or profitability of a company, but contribute to its texture. Forsaking them can take a subtle, collective toll.

No business can do well for its shareholders without first doing well by all the people its business touches.

Speaking out is a necessary beginning, but not the same as real change.

Even though we both won championships that year, it was events that meant more to me than what happened on the ice. It was those lessons I learned just preceding and during the championship season, which still affect me to this very day.

The reason he has a billion and a half followers today is because he is alive, speaks, and heals today.

One of the most powerful things we can do is pray. Prayer can change the world.

Do not be silent; there is no limit to the power that may be released through you.

People forget how fast you did a job -- but they remember how well you did it.

We don't have to engage in grand, heroic actions to participate in the process of change. Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world.

Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.