Quotes About Impact

We over-praise leaders when organizations succeed and over-blame them when organizations fail. Success or failure depends on the environment as much as or even more than the leader. Effective leaders navigate and influence the environment to enable key success factors for their followers

You can kill a man, but you can't kill an idea

Having a name online means no more than it being written on a paper sheet.

It was not a big smile, not particularly bold or polite or ironic or glib, not asking for anything or offering anything, not stringy or careless, not, in short, like any smile I had ever experienced before. But such a smile! You could burn a hole in the world with that smile.

not like any smile i had ever experienced before. but such a smile! you could burn a hole in the world with that smile

How doe we define the energy of thought versus the energy of action.

I have often looked back at that moment and imagined history veering fractionally in one direction or another, imagined if I'd been a different person, or if he had, whether what followed would have been a different story altogether and the history of the world might have changed ever so slightly around us.

Puedo ver que las relaciones pasadas dejan un destello a su paso, una estela de luz irregular que no desaparece cuando la gente se separa.

You can't stand for too many things. You can't use the bully pulpit for too many things. So, I promise you, every day, I am going to talk about jobs, spending, and education.

Being a teacher at a restaurant in the town where you lived was a little like being a TV star...

You had only one chance for a signature in life, but most people left no impression.

There are some people who have such a strong effect on you, even if you've spent very little time with them, that they become embossed inside you, and any hint of them, any casual mention, creates a sudden stir in you.

The past is so tenacious.

What was it about needy girls? Jules wondered. They felt like they had the right to be needy, because they knew that other people would be interested in—although annoyed at—their needs. … They got all the attention. Boys turned their focus toward them, and messy situations results.

Boys can't seem to help but leave marks; they scatter them as carelessly as pebbles in a pond.

He crashed quietly through the world.

I know I still cause harm, probably a ton of it no matter what I do. And it kills me, it just kills me, that maybe the best you can ever do is cause less harm. But there you have it.

Ce se întâmpl? în Belzhar, orice ar fi, nu las? nicio urm? în lumea real?. Nicio umbr?, niciun fel de reziduu.

Only when those fathers were not on the premises could they be elevated and deified.

It felt like you could hurt her just by looking at her, or you could never hurt her at all.

We never know, none of us, what love'll do to us.

that was when it happened. A click of her jaw, like a pit bull's or cobra's unlocking

The true terrorism of girls is the accuracy of their aim.

To those who've touched my life and made me who I am today, I say this: A different person could have told this story, but only the woman I am because of knowing you could have written this book.