Quotes About Impact

The Earth should not be a worse place after my life than it was when I was born here.

Why is it always the world? Why is it never just half a block? Or Jersey? You know, something we could live without?

That was harsh. I didn't think my personality was species dooming. Not necessarily.

The news was somewhere between an incredible accomplishment and a huge disaster.

President Kennedy's eloquence was designed to make men think; President Johnson's hammer blows are designed to make men act.

No greater glory, no greater honor, is the lot of man departing than a feeling possessed deep in his heart that the world is a better place for his having lived

For architects, towns and cities are just big display cases for their work. The fact that the place matters so much more than the building is something else they don't want to know. Making good cities is the last thing on their mind. As the heroic urbanist Jane Jacobs was heard to say, "the most cunningly ignorant people I know are architects.

Be aware that how you feel has a direct impact on your thinking process. When we set standards for ourselves they seem objective, but standards and goal-setting are totally subjective and personal." From The Biology of Success.

No matter how carefully we defend ourselves, all it takes is one footprint of another real person to recall us to the endlessly interesting hazards of living relationships.

After examining 1,799 policy issues in detail, two eminent researchers, Princeton professor Martin Gilens and Professor Benjamin Page of Northwestern University, concluded that "the preferences of the average American appear to have only a minuscule, near-zero, statistically non-significant impact upon public policy.

Often we don't realize that our attitude toward something has been influenced by the number of times we have been exposed to it in the past.

He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. —

What we present first changes the way people experience what we present to them next.

When the newspaper detailed the suicide of a young person, it was young drivers who then piled their cars into trees, poles, and embankments with fatal results; but when the news story concerned an older person's suicide, older drivers died in such crashes. l advised, then, to take special care in our travels at these times.

If a gift, favor, or service incorporates all three features of meaningfulness, unexpectedness, and customization, it can become a formidable source of change.

The messenger is the message." Of

extensive analysis requires more time, energy, and motivation. As a consequence, its impact on our decisions is limited by the rigor it requires. If we don't have the wherewithal (time, capacity, will) to think hard about a choice, we're unlikely to deliberate deeply.

our attitude toward something has been influenced by the number of times we have been exposed to it in the past.

la luz de este coste, no resulta tan desconcertante que, en nombre de la reciprocidad, devolvamos a menudo más de lo que hemos recibido. Ni tampoco es tan extraño que, con frecuencia, evitemos pedir un favor que necesitamos si no estamos en condiciones de devolverlo. Sencillamente, el coste psicológico puede pesar más que la pérdida material.

Desde que publiquei a primeira edição de O poder da persuasão, aconteceram algumas coisas que merecem

It seems that it was not the whole series of words, but the first one, "because," that made the difference.

Weathermen pay price for nature's curve balls

La respuesta tiene que ver, en parte, con un principio de la comunicación que, aunque es esencial, generalmente no se tiene demasiado en cuenta: aquello que mostramos primero modifica la forma en la que la gente percibe lo que presentamos después.

numerosas investigaciones demuestran que reducir la distancia ante un objeto hace que parezca que este merece más la pena.