Quotes About Impact

A serious modern novelist is one whose books leave you really depressed at the end. A truly great, modern novelist is one who leaves you wanting to kill yourself at the end of the book.

America somehow thinks that leadership relates to governance, and it certainly does. But society is much bigger than governance, and some of the truly great leadership of our society is outside the governance arena.

Most important is the third question. When our grand purpose for living is more about serving others than ourselves, or when we focus what we do primarily to serve others, it matters less what we're chasing, or what we do to make a living. In the words of the former tennis great Arthur Ashe, "From what we get, we can make a living; from what we give, we can make a life.

Leaders have a disproportionate impact on the energy of others.

There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes things happen.

Research by the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) published in 2013 notes, "Outsourcing production to China does not always relieve consumers in the United States—or for

When you create a setting where your people see that their efforts are contributing to a positive outcome well beyond what they could achieve individually, they will be more motivated and find greater meaning in what they do.

No one knew that a killer was already moving through their streets with them, an invisible stalker that would go house to house until it had touched everyone, rich or poor, in some terrible way.

What about football? Is it a sport or a concussion?

2. Contagion

All of life is a risk; in fact we're not going to get out alive. Casualness leads to casualties. Communication is the ability to affect other people with words.

The science is clear that there is an increase in the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere. What is not clear from the science is how much of that increase is caused by human activity and what also is not clear is what impact those increases have on the climatic cycle.

I just go through life not doing anything to anyone, wreaking havoc left and right.

Jason's life was too short for his passing to cause many ripples.

In the end, a person is only known by the impact he or she has on others.

When we learn something, we can change our own life. When we teach something, we can change another's life—but when we teach people to teach, we can change the world.

OUR LEGACIES Every footprint that we take Makes a change where we have passed. Small things there beneath our heel Are changing where the print was cast. What then could any difference make When ruthless paths our courses take? Beneath our heel some things will bend Without the strength to rise again. Joye Kanelakos

Work is a journey we undertake for others that makes us who we are.

Anytime we fail to bring our best efforts to our job, we diminish our employer, our colleagues, and most significantly, ourselves.

Who we are is a tribute to those who have left us a legacy. Who we help others become will be our legacy.

it is more important how you change the lives of those whom you touch every day than whether or not you change the world.

the great ones—you can still taste them years later, even remember the exact spot where you met them. You can't always put your finger on why they linger with you, but they do.

bought into Milton Friedman's 1970 New York Times essay "The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits

I try to use my music to move these people to act.