Quotes About Impact

It isn't how you die. It's what you live for.

we have entered the Anthropocene, a new geological epoch defined by humanity's influence on the global environment.

Studies show that even a brief connection with a role model can vastly increase unconscious motivation. For example, being told that you share a birthday with a mathematician can improve the amount of effort you're willing to put into difficult math tasks by 62 percent.

Skunking is spraying negative energy into the workplace, as skunks do when they're frightened.

1.º, los clientes; 2.º, los empleados; 3.º, la comunidad, y 4.º, los accionistas de la compañía.

group's performance by 30 to 40 percent. The drop-off is consistent whether he plays the Jerk, the Slacker, or the Downer.

This group performed well no matter what he did. Nick said it was mostly because of one guy. You can see this guy is causing Nick to get almost infuriated—his negative moves aren't working like they had in the other groups, because this guy could find a way to flip it and engage everyone and get people moving toward the goal.

Pick Up Trash:

Stories are not just stories; they are the best invention ever created for delivering mental models that drive behavior.

For every ton of bombs dropped on England in the nine months of the Blitz, England and the United States, mainly England, eventually dropped a hundred tons of bombs on German cities.

the recent discovery that your habits and emotions can impact your biology so deeply that it causes changes in the genes that are transmitted to the next several generations.

Clearly, your behavior matters beyond yourself and is an important reason to get healthy now.

anticipating unpleasant events can minimize their impact.

Impact is rewarding. Mattering makes us happy.

Why isn't it fun to watch a videotape of last night's football game even when we don't know who won? Because the fact that the game has already been played precludes the possibility that our cheering will somehow penetrate the television, travel through the cable system, find its way to the stadium, and influence the trajectory of the ball as it hurtles toward the goalposts!

The industrial processes in use today were developed at a time when no one had to consider what the environmental impact was. Who cared? But making ecological concerns matter to a company's bottom line will help it do the research and development that will reinvent everything we buy.

For better or worse, intelligence can come to nothing when the emotions hold sway.

If you fight the right battle, in the right way, the outcome can change not only your life, but also the lives of others.

So, I see technology as a Trojan Horse: It looks like a wonderful thing, but they are going to regret introducing it into the schools because it simply can't be controlled.

The Queen died. The King died." "The Queen died. And the King died of a broken heart." The first line was fact. The second line was a story. It placed the facts in context, added emotion and made us connect to it by making it memorable.

business writer Polly LaBarre notes, "The United States spends more on trash bags than ninety other countries spend on everything.

Goals may cause systematic problems for organizations due to narrowed focus, unethical behavior, increased risk taking, decreased cooperation, and decreased intrinsic motivation. Use care when applying goals in your organization.

researchers have found that extraversion has "no statistically significant relationship . . . with sales performance

We're designed to be active and engaged. And we know that the richest experiences in our lives aren't when we're clamoring for validation from others, but when we're listening to our own voice-doing something that matters, doing it well, and doing it in the service of a cause larger than ourselves.