Quotes About Impact

Power I defined as personal influence of an effective sort on governmental action.

Whether you're heroic or heartless may depend on a contextual factor whose impact is far greater than we would tend to assume.

Important influences can be hidden, but even when powerful situational determinants of behavior are staring us in the face, we can be oblivious to their impact.

Unexamined wallpaper is classroom practices and institutional policies that are so entrenched in school culture or a teacher's paradigm that their ability to affect student learning is never probed.

A place makes a deep impression on you when you're young. It lives with you. It's like your childhood. It fertilises the imagination.

Set aside those things that don't really matter and do something with eternal consequences.

a nudge is any factor that significantly alters the behavior of Humans

people's choices are pervasively influenced by the design elements selected by choice architects.

It turns out that if you ask people, the day before the election, whether they intend to vote, you can increase the probability of their voting by as much as 25 percent!

If private companies or public officials think that one policy produces better outcomes, they can greatly influence the outcome by choosing it as the default.

This scoring system has no effect on the grade you get in the course, but it seems to make you happier.

The clear lesson here is that consistent and unwavering people, in the private or public sector, can move groups and practices in their preferred direction. More

if you want people to comply with some norm or rule, it is a good strategy to inform them (if true) that most other people comply.

Roughly speaking, losses hurt about twice as much as gains make you feel good.

Casi siempre el mejor enfoque a los problemas de contaminación es gravar el comportamiento perjudicial y dejar que las fuerzas del mercado determinen la respuesta del coste incrementado.

average article written in a specialized academic journal is probably lucky to find 100 readers.

Events that come on tiptoe often change the world.

Alan Moorehead in The Fatal Impact (1966).

I tried not to let these things affect me. They affected me quickly and obviously.

We are beginning to understand that by the time the conquistadors struck the Andes or Custer reached the Black Hills of South Dakota, only shadow populations of natives remained. The Indian wars got the headlines, but they were mopping-up operations. The shock troops were diseases, especially smallpox, aided by weeds and a few other members of catastrophic agriculture's evolved coalition.

You can get used to horror, he thought. When it has lost immediacy and is no longer pungent and has become a steady diet. When it has degraded to a chain of mind-numbing events. ("Lover When You're Near Me")

A country watches dumbstruck as New England's priceless chestnuts melt away. The tree of the tanning industry, of railroad ties, train cars, telegraph poles, fuel, fences, houses, barns, fine desks, tables, pianos, crates, paper pulp, and endless free shade and food—the most harvested tree in the country—is vanishing.

Life is nothing but mutual infection.

There it was: roll the dice and find your life catalyzed by another, one who, ten minutes later or three seats farther down at another computer screen, would have remained an undetected signal from deep space.