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Quotes About Impact

You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a life time.
~ Dale Carnegie
Appreciation can make a day - even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary.
~ Margaret Cousins
Commitment is an enactment of all promises made to make the beneficial impact for humanity without any debauchery act to keep intact reality, truth and fact.
~ Anuj Somany
I wake up in the morning and one thing that I worry about is maybe I may not have done my best for my people. I try always to do my very, very best and if I don't strive the hardest this is what worries me.
~ Unknown
Jane Morgan had ruined him. Ridden him hard and put him up wet. He might never recover. Mentally he was even worse off. Who was this girl?
~ Unknown
I imagined how much pressure he must have felt as a reviewer who could destroy entire careers. Who would want that sort of power? Especially over something as simple and charming as food?
~ Unknown
In fact, just heading toward veganism lifts a not insignificant burden from the earth. According to food pundit Michael Pollan, who's not a vegetarian, if everybody did even "Meatless Monday," it would be the environmental equivalent of taking 20 million midsize cars off the road.
~ Victoria Moran
Beauty rubs off. You cannot stand face-to-face with a Rembrandt and walk away the same person.
~ Victoria Moran
The past is never truly gone. It lives on in the memories of those who experienced it, in the stories that are told and retold, and in the places where it unfolded. We must honor the past by acknowledging its impact on our present, and by learning from its lessons to shape our future. (p. 21)
~ Unknown
The past is never truly gone. It lives on in the memories of those who experienced it, in the stories that are told and retold, and in the places where it unfolded. We must honor the past by acknowledging its impact on our present, and by learning from its lessons to shape our future
~ Unknown
We must always be mindful of the power of our words and actions. They have a ripple effect that can touch many lives, both now and in the future. We must act with integrity, with compassion, and with a deep respect for the interconnectedness of all things (Kneubuhl 34)
~ Unknown
We must never forget the impact of our actions, both good and bad. We must strive to make a positive difference in the lives of those around us, and to leave the world a better place than we found it (Kneubuhl 108)
~ Unknown
We must honor the memory of those who have passed on, by seeking the truth, by speaking the truth, and by bringing justice to those who have been wronged. We must never forget the impact of our actions, both good and bad, and strive to make a positive difference in the lives of those around us." (Kneubuhl 124)
~ Unknown
It isn't just the physical presence of the father that matters- it's his engagement and involvement. An emotionally remote or rejecting or actively punitive father leads to girls' feeling pretty apprehensive around men.
~ Victoria Secunda
The psychological absence of fathers can be nearly as devastating as physical absence. When fathers are alive but not a predictable presence actively participating in their daughter's lives the relationship becomes a permanent "maybe.
~ Victoria Secunda
Parental neglect even in intact families, can have a shattering effect on how daughters- even those with loving mothers- feel about men.
~ Victoria Secunda
All wars are fought twice, the first time on the battlefield, the second time in memory.
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen
How do you know you've made a great work of art? A great work of art is something as real as reality itself, and sometimes even more real than the real. Long after this war is forgotten, when its existence is a paragraph in a schoolbook students won't even bother to read, and everyone who survived it is dead, their bodies dust, their memories atoms, their emotions no longer in motion, this work of art will still shine so brightly it will not just be about the war but it will be the war.
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen
Politics is always personal, my dear, she said. That's what makes it deadly.
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen
While it is better to be loved than hated, it is also far better to be hated than ignored. To
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen
While it is better to be loved than hated, it is also far better to be hated than ignored
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE WROTE THAT "if something is to stay in the memory it must be burned in: only that which never ceases to hurt stays in the memory.
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen
Mixing native flora with a foreign plant oftentimes has tragic consequences,
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen
It proceeds from the idea that all wars are fought twice, the first time on the battlefield, the second time in memory. Any
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen