Quotes About Impact

One long-term impact of trauma is the fact that often-traumatized individuals have difficulty recognizing how they are feeling and then fail to respond in an appropriate and helpful way. They become out of touch with their own feelings, bodies, and needs, which in turn makes it more difficult to respond to the feelings, sensations, and needs of others in their lives.

In the last 5 years, American employers have lost over $150 billion of productivity to depression alone. That is more than the GDP of 28 different States during the same period.

If we reach the cities, we will reach the nation. If we fail in the cities, they will become a cesspool that infects the entire nation.

David Eagleman once wrote that everyone dies twice – first when we stop breathing, and second when your name is mentioned for the last time.

The 1:1:1 method can be summed up as starting a story as close to the end as possible. Most stories end before they get to the end, in terms of impact on the listener, their attention span, and the energy that you have to tell it.

For instance, it tends to be easier for us to picture how frequently eating a load of greasy fast food meals is going to risk our heart health, but it's harder for us to recognize how not exercising can place us at the same health risk. While we may actively avoid those oily take-out in an attempt to maintain a healthy lifestyle, we aren't as likely to start an exercise regimen to support that same goal. It just doesn't have the same psychological impact.

about others sharing something with you and being simultaneously being affected by what you share. You acknowledge the ideas and the information that they're sharing so that they become emotionally engaged.

First, ask yourself why you feel that way. What is the exact moment and action that caused the feeling? Is it something big, or small and isolated?

every story has a purpose and point, and it's almost always about how they were made to feel.

While the content of your words means a lot, the way you say it means even more.

Gaining the skills of magnetism, how to impress, connect, and ultimately influence others, is paramount to success in life.

Grant, O Lord, that none may love Thee less this day because of me; that never a word or act of mine may turn one soul from Thee; and, ever daring, yet one more grace would I implore: that many souls this day, because of me, may love Thee more. Amen.42

Why do people whose existence you are unaware of, whom you meet once and will never see again, come to play, behind the scenes, an important role in your life?

Il essayait vainement de se rappeler dans quel livre était écrit que chaque première rencontre est une blessure.

I noticed a phenomenon that doesn't often happen to a man: several women turned round as he passed them.

Some sentences remain etched in your mind forever.

T?i sao nh?ng ng??i mà ta không ng? có t?n t?i , nh?ng ng??i ta ch? g?p m?t l?n r?i thôi, l?i âm th?m ?óng vai trò r?t quan tr?ng trong cu?c ??i ta?

Era mai possibile che l'incidente dell'altra notte avesse provocato una simile frattura nella mia esistenza, e che ormai ci fossero un prima e un dopo? Ho

The path to significance is bigger than the individual.

Of what earthly value is Christianity if it leaves no indelible mark on one's lifestyle? It is of no value (in this life) to be Christian if you do not think Christianly--if you do not have a Christian life view.

Stories are the wildest things of all. Stories chase and bite and hunt.

But a knife ain't just a thing, is it? It's a choice, it's something you do . A knife says yes or no, cut or not, die or don't. A knife takes a decision out of your hand and puts it in the world and it never goes back again.

We can save the world," I say, trying to smile. "You and me.

Because even the one you hate leaves an absence when they go.