Quotes About Impact

We create history by our act and deeds.

it's not often in life that you can misbehave for the good of the cause

S'enfermer dans une mentalité d'agressé est plus dévastateur encore pour la victime de l'agression elle-même.

On exagère trop souvent sur l'influence des religions sur les peuples, tandis qu'on néglige à l'inverse l'influence des peuples sur les religions.

I had the chance to meet an extraordinary personality, one of those beings who cross History determined to leave their imprint on the generations to come.

Bien des instants emblématiques qui ont façonné notre époque, de la chute du mur de Berlin à la chute des tours jumelles de Manhattan, trouvent leur origine dans les événements de « cette année-l?…

Zatvaranje u mentalitet napadnutog još je mnogo razornije nego sam napad.

Til gjengjeld er det store sjanser for at ethvert amerikansk valg heretter vil bli et verdensomspennende psykordrama.

Un empire millénaire venait d'être aboli en notre présence, le monde musulman était en train de connaître un bouleversement majeur, qui allait avoir des conséquences sur toute l'étendue de la planète.

There is nothing inevitable about the impact of trauma, except perhaps the way the victim is going to be treated by professionals like us, who will then ascribe every subsequent difficulty in their lives to what has happened to them in the past. We don't blame victims any longer, instead we condemn them. We treat them like damaged goods and in so doing we compound the pain of whatever wound has been inflicted and we encourage everyone around them to do the same.

Echo of your thoughts has greater impact on the world than your actions.

Majority has huge power, if guided with morality.

One positive thought can change your life, can change the whole world.

We all are so deeply interconnected, do good for any one. That will be reflected.

Your thoughts are your message to the world. Just as the rays are the messages of the Sun.

It isn't my aim just to make a racket My aim is that things should change

It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.

The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence.

Regardless of the outcome, the decisions linger. As one official put it, "Ethical questions will put scars on your soul that you can never get rid of.

For intelligence officials, 9/11 was personal.

This has the whiff of August 1945," said former NSA and CIA Director Michael Hayden, referring to the emergence of the atomic bomb. "That's a big deal."105

Criticism is like pain. It's not fun but if it doesn't hurt, no one pays attention.

Emphasizing interdependence lets people know that they're responsible for understanding how their tasks interact with other people's tasks. Interdependence encourages frequent conversations to figure out the impact their work is having on others and to convey in turn the impact others' work has on them. Interdependent work requires communication. In other words, when leaders frame the work they are emphasizing the need for taking interpersonal risks like sharing ideas and concerns.

What they had discovered was that even the extremely smart, high-powered employees at Google needed a psychologically safe work environment to contribute the talents they had to offer. The team also found four other factors that helped explain team performance – clear goals, dependable colleagues, personally meaningful work, and a belief that the work has impact.