Quotes About Impact

The story God is writing through your life is someone else's subplot. It was true for David's mighty men. It's true for me. And it's true for you.

Never underestimate the power of one well-timed compliment. It has the power to change a person's entire perspective on life.

When President Franklin Delano Roosevelt died, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt was comforted by a piece of poetry given to her by a friend: They are not dead who live in lives they leave behind: In those whom they have blessed they live a life again.2

An untamed tongue is far more dangerous than an untrained sword.

Don't wait until you make your first million to make a difference in somebody's life. If you have something to give, give it now.

William S. Burroughs said cut into the present and the future leaks out When I cut into the past what leaks out is you

R. F. Kahn asked, "If I went out tomorrow and bought a new overcoat, that would increase unemployment?" "Yes," said Hayek, "but … it would take a very long mathematical argument to explain why.

We're so shit at seeing the Macro, and ultimately it's those macro uncoupling dynamics that matter more than anything else.

It's what you do right now that makes a difference.

They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.

I wonder if as the bizarre becomes commonplace there is a hidden cost to the self.

The successful man doesn't use others, other people use the successful man, for above all the success is of service.

Being rich is a good thing. Not just in the obvious sense of benefitting you and your family, but in the broader sense. Profits are not a zero sum game. The more you make, the more of a financial impact you can have.

A Guardian investigation concluded that between 10,000 and 20,000 people died as an 'indirect' result of the US bombing, that is, through hunger, cold and disease as people were forced to flee the massive aerial assault. An estimate by Professor Marc Herold of the University of New Hampshire, suggests that between 3,125 and 3,620 Afghan civilians were killed by US bombing up to July 2002.3

People may forget what you said or what you did, but they will always remember how you made them feel.

While pimples are not as simple as too much milk or sugar in your diet, both have a significant impact. Nutritional deficiencies as well as excesses can worsen acne.

The evil is not in extremes It's in the aftermath

Unless we professors change our ways and stop seeking respectability and institutional standing at the expense of genuine human impact, we are destined, as Tennyson has it, to rust unburnished, never to shine in use.

what the researchers were saying was that the essence of football—the unavoidable head banging that occurs on every play, like a woodpecker jackhammering at a tree—can unleash a cascading series of neurological events that in the end strangles your brain, leaving you unrecognizable. The

He wondered how much had really changed. Mike Webster had gone mad and died. Junior Seau had gone mad and died. How many more players were out there? The league had embraced BU's researchers and given them money. When the NFL didn't like the message, it cast BU aside and picked another partner and shelled out more money.

With so many alternatives, how can we let our children, our loved ones, ourselves, play a game that may destroy the essence of who we are? How can we enjoy it as entertainment?

Customer results contribute to population results. What we do for our customers is our contribution to the quality of life of the community.

It is not the ink and the paper that matter, but the hand that holds the pen.

the light you possess will burn to the great benefit of this world long after our poor footprints have been washed from the sand.