Quotes About Impact

Or consider child beggars in the developing world. The sight of an emaciated child is shocking to a well-fed Westerner, and it's hard for a good person to resist helping out. And yet the act of doing so ends up supporting criminal organizations that enslave and often maim tens of thousands of children. By giving, you make the world worse. Actions that appear to help individuals in the short term can have terrible consequences for many more.

Part of the answer is that Sandy Hook was a single event. The murders in Chicago are more of a steady background noise. We're constituted so that novel and unusual events catch our attention and trigger our emotional responses.

This perverse moral mathematics is part of the reason why governments and individuals care more about a little girl stuck in a well than about events that will affect millions or billions. It is why outrage at the suffering of a few individuals can lead to actions, such as going to war, that have terrible consequences for many more.

WE'VE BEEN TALKING about meaningful pursuits, but there are meaningful experiences as well. Here the bar is dropped somewhat. These can be more passive and don't necessarily involve achieving a goal. What seems to be key here is that they will change you in some way.

It turned out that the most meaningful events tended to be on the extremes—those that were very pleasant or very painful. These are the ones that matter, that leave a mark.

How different would our world be today if there had been effective mission among those who a few years ago felt free to make huge personal fortunes out of subprime mortgages in the United States? The results of the nonevangelization of that segment of American society has today had global outcomes effecting millions of lives.) So, start at home !31

The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution. Paul Cezanne

When you think about the day-to-day, positive impact on the lives of U.S. citizens, there is no relationship that we have in the world that is more important than our relationship with Canada.

Launching a turnaround takes courage. I cannot measure that and so it is not going to be included in my analysis, but behind the moments of change there are always a few people within these societies who have decided to try to make a difference.

There is no analytic presumption that migration produces gains either for the societies that migrants join, or for those they leave; the only unambiguous gains are for the migrants themselves.

Many of the characteristics that are responsible for successful families are not just good for the families themselves, but good for the entire society. Conversely, many of those that are responsible for failing families are not only private tragedies, but social catastrophes.

But the nation of America isn't the people of God; we don't live in a theocracy. The sooner Christians realize this, the sooner the church can make a deeper impact as salt and light in society.

You need to create an emotional bond with people over security, make it resonate with them,You need to talk in a language they understand, whether that be risk, revenue, compliance, the impact on them personally – whatever it is, you need to make that connection

Child mortality [since 2000 is] down by 2.65 million a year. That's a rate of 7,256 children's lives saved each day. … It drives me nuts that most people don't seem to know this news.

God uses ordinary people to do extraordinary things in the lives of others.

You and I were created for more than filling up our schedules with the self-satisfying pursuits of personal pleasure.

When the Word of God, faithfully taught by the people of God and empowered by the Spirit of God, falls down, people become different.

Mourning means you recognize the most important reality in the human existence, sin. Mourning means you have been hit by the weight of what it has done to you and to everyone you know.

Success is not about how well I've been able to build my own little kingdom but about the degree to which I've done all I've done in the service of a greater

If you are alive on this planet, you are a counselor! You are interpreting life, and sharing those interpretations with others. You are a person of influence, and you are also being influenced.

The success of a ministry is always more a picture of who God is than a statement about who the people are that he is using for his purpose.

Principio: Nada es más importante en tu vida que ser un instrumento para formar el alma de una persona.

Now, if these people are not the focus and object of ministry, then what is ministry?

[Upon first seeing a daguerreotype:] From today painting is dead.