Quotes About Impact

He always wore large jeweled rings on his right hand; sometimes, grasping a welcoming hand so hard that the rings bit and the owner winced, the hand shaker said merrily, "Ha ha! The mailed fist! What!

This," Catherine wrote later, "is the effect that can be produced by a stupid, carelessly spoken word—it is never forgotten.

Peter returned to Russia determined to remold his country along Western lines. The old Muscovite state, isolated and introverted for centuries, would reach out to Europe and open itself to Europe. In a sense, the flow of effect was circular: the West affected Peter, the Tsar had a powerful impact upon Russia, and Russia, modernized and emergent, had a new and greater influence on Europe. For all three, therefore—Peter, Russia and Europe—the Great Embassy was a turning point.

Without Rasputin, there could have been no Lenin." ALEXANDER KERENSKY

Feeding that ego by consistently printing and televising stories about the murders was assuring that there would be more murders.

These children were deprived of something more important than money—love. They ended up paying for that deprivation during the remainder of their lives, and society suffered, too, because their crimes removed many people from the world and their assaultive behavior left alive equally as many victims who remain permanently scarred.

Performance management systems that promote individualistic behaviors seem to be one of the primary causes of sparse, disconnected networks. Hierarchy, too, often has a marked impact on who has access to whom.

They create energy, and even though this is intangible it generates client sales and follow-on work as well as gets other people here engaged in and supportive of what they are doing.

When you interact with this person, how does it typically affect your energy level?

Our interviews also suggest that energizers get more from those around them.

In other words, energizers raise the overall level of performance around them.

energy is not entirely a product of a set of behaviors in a given interaction but is also affected by people's day-to-day actions.

I want students to engage the way a clutch on a car gets engaged: an engine can be running, making appropriate noises, burning fuel and creating exhaust fumes, but unless the clutch is engaged, nothing moves. It's all sound and smoke, and nobody gets anywhere.

While the morality of slavery alone might have eventually led to a showdown, it was America's sprawling growth that made the issue explosive.

If I'm in an elevator and it starts to fall to the bottom of the shaft, can I jump up at the last instant and cancel the impact?

Of all the varieties of modern pollution, noise is the most insidious.

Some people carry their life in a glass of water and splash it on everyone they meet.

Monster cloud rising over Hiroshima, over the world — monstrous, mushrooming thing, sign of our age, symbol of our sin: growth, bigness, speed: grow, grow, grow — grow in a cancer, enlarge a factory, swell a city, balloon our bellies, speed life, fly to the moon, burst a bomb, shatter a people — explode the world.

A man unhated is a man who makes no mark. A man must take pride in those who hate him.

Good words do more than hard speeches, as the sunbeams, without any noise, will make the traveler cast off his cloak, which all the blustering winds could not do, but only make him bind it closer to him.

He loved his job, which allowed time to do it without comparing his performance to others'. He loved the economics of death: hastening a person's passage into the afterlife not only provided him with a good living: it gave work to coroners, beat cops, detectives, crime scene technicians, the people who made fingerprint powder and luminal and other sundry chemicals and devices - not to mention firearm, ammunition, coffin, and tissue manufacturers - obituary writers, crime reporters, novelists.

What good is the present if you cannot change the future?

The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.

Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.