Quotes About Impact

The sobering fact is that, even with all this activity, probably 24-27% of the world's population have not had the good news presented to them in a way they could appreciate and meaningfully respond to.

I really enjoy theater. I just went to see 'Death of a Salesman ' and it knocked me on my ass.

I don't wish to be everything to everyone, but I would like to be something to someone.

I was emotionally and physically punched in the stomach. This is not a place where you go and deliver the lines and then you come back. It's kind of a life-changing experience. But it can't get better than this for any actor - this is like an opera.

When you put gas in your car you are making a political statement, because you are supporting the empires that control and continue the destruction of some countries.

Callar y hablar son formas de intervenir en el futuro.

The worst thing is not to figure in a book at all, when there was a possibility of doing so.

uno hace descubrimientos extraños una vez que toca o es tocado, una vez que uno roza un muslo por accidente

Het is de verschrikkelijke kracht van het heden, dat het verleden meer veplettert naarmate het zich er verder van verwijdert, en het bovendien vervalst zonder dat het verleden zijn mond kan opendoen, protesteren, tegenspreken of iets weerleggen

Computers don't kill books; people do.

Companies with new technologies are free to disrupt almost any industry they choose—journalism, television, music, manufacturing—so long as they don't disrupt the financial operating system churning beneath it all. Hell

Delivering a difficult message is like throwing a hand grenade.

By identifying what you are doing to perpetuate a situation, you learn where you have leverage to affect the system.

Can you say a little more about how you see things? • What information might you have that I don't? • How do you see it differently? • What impact have my actions had on you? • Can you say a little more about why you think this is my fault? • Were you reacting to something I did? • How are you feeling about all of this? • Say more about why this is important to you. • What would it mean to you if that happened? If

Listen! Paradoxically, there is also considerable persuasion power in inquiry and listening. As we say in Chapter 9, listening is not just about taking in information. Listening well has an impact on the other person – it quiets their internal voice. When they feel heard and acknowledged, it is easier for them to hear you. And it also lets you know what they care about, which lays the foundation for creative problem solving.

Next, we need to explore our assumptions about the other person's intentions. To what extent are our feelings based on an untested assumption about their intentions? Might the other person have acted unintentionally, or from multiple and conflicting intentions? How does our view of their intentions affect how we feel? And what about our own intentions? What was motivating us? How might our actions have impacted them? Does that change how we feel?

The Identity Conversation looks inward: it's all about who we are and how we see ourselves. How does what happened affect my self-esteem, my self-image, my sense of who I am in the world? What impact will it have on my future? What self-doubts do I harbor?

We Are Influenced by Past Experiences.

Setting an example is not the main means of influencing another. It is the only means.

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, Nothing is going to get better. It's not.

Only Americans can hurt America.

An intelligent person fights for lost causes, realizing that others are merely effects

if Clinton's answers come off as well-intended lectures, Obama is offering soaring sermons and generational opportunity. In 1960, the articulate Adlai Stevenson compared his own oratory unfavorably with John F. Kennedy's. Do you remember, Stevenson said, that in classical times when Cicero had finished speaking, the people said, 'How well he spoke,' but when Demosthenes had finished speaking, the people said, 'Let us march.' At this hour, Obama is the Democrats' Demosthenes.

The bad news is that if we do in fact get off the earth we will contaminate the rest of the universe with our moral insufficiency.