Quotes About Impact

Nonviolent Communication can change the world. More importantly, it can change your life. I cannot recommend it highly enough.

Our quest for a successful outcome may end up doing more harm than good to our organizations, our families, and ourselves.

If we always express our opinion, no matter how hurtful or noncontributory it may be, we are exercising our right to be "me.

If your successor truly wants to become a great CEO, she needs to recognize that there is no "off" switch when she is around the people who she will be leading.

Not all of us require a violent life-threatening knock on the head to change our behavior. It only seems that way.

Peter Drucker, who said, "Our mission in life should be to make a positive difference, not to prove how smart or right we are.

You know your vote doesn't count, but you go through the motions, because it's been drummed into your head that you might be the one person who makes a difference.

The successor to politics will be propaganda. Propaganda, not in the sense of a message or ideology, but as the impact of the whole technology of the times.

The name of a man is a numbing blow from which he never recovers.

Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior.

The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium - that is, of any extension of ourselves - result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by each extension of ourselves, or by any new technology.

Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication.

Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America - not on the battlefields of Vietnam.

We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us.

The medium is the message.

First we build the tools, then they build us.

With the arrival of electric technology, man has extended, or set outside himself, a live model of the central nervous system itself. To the degree that this is so, it is a development that suggests a desperate suicidal autoamputation, as if the central nervous system could no longer depend on the physical organs to be protective buffers against the slings and arrows of outrageous mechanism.

I've created a monster" "No you just released one.

W rezultacie subsydia prze?o?y?y si? na liczby, o których zrobi?o si? g?o?no. Catholic Agency for Overseas Development, CAFOD, Katolicka Agencja na rzecz Rozwoju, przeprowadzi?a w 2002 roku analiz?, która wykaza?a, ?e jedna krowa europejska otrzymuje od Unii oko?o 2,2 dolara na dzie? - 800 rocznie. Czyli ka?da z tych krów by?a bogatsza ni? 3,5 miliarda ludzi, po?owa ludno?ci ?wiata.

Meses más tarde Lourdes Ruiz, la Reina del Albur, se murió de un infarto a poco de haber cumplido 47 años.)

beneath the surface, Emily was trying to understand if writers were responsible for the feelings they prompted in others: if hurling a word had the same effect as throwing a stone. Was imagination—like a loaded gun—the one pulling the trigger?

What if you do what you think is right, for yourself or someone else, but it doesn't make a difference." - Susanna Quiner

Was every good change made in the world the result of successful bullying? I wondered.

People yearn for purpose—for doing something that's important, that engages their full potential in a way that's meaningful beyond their personal bank accounts.