Quotes About Impact

Power is the ability to get things done.

The world is not getting better by itself. Making the world a better place demands more and better leaders.

I am done with great things and big plans, great institutions and big successes. I am for those tiny, invisible loving human forces that work from individual to individual, creeping through the crannies of the world like so many rootlets, or like the capillary oozing of water, yet which, if given time, will rend the hardest monuments of human pride. —WILLIAM JAMES

Unlike success and failure, contribution has no other side.

Leaders who become their vision often seem uncommonly brave to the rest of us.

Who am I being that they are not shining?

if you should ever doubt that a series of dry words in a government document can shatter spirits and demolish lives, let this book erase that doubt. Conversely, if you should be of the conviction that we are powerless to change those dry words, let this book give you heart.

And so, you see, her absence stopped time. What

She slept hot just the way her words sometimes blew hot.

I've read that certain memories put down in agitation at a vulnerable age do not extinguish with time, but engrave ever deeper as they return and return.

In fact, there is no question that a number of people of all ages lost their lives on account of this house.

Her outfit must have penetrated his unconscious. She wore a shirt of softly fringed suede that clung to her breasts like an unforgiven sin.

It thrills me when a young person such as yourself speaks of dust issues!

Women don't realize how much store men set on the regularity of their habits. We absorb their comings and goings into our bodies, their rhythms into our bones. Our pulse is set to theirs, and as always on a weekend afternoon we were waiting for my mother to start us ticking away on the evening. And so, you see, her absence stopped time.

Delphine witnessed awful things occurring yo other humans. Worse than that, she was powerless to alter their fate. It would be that way all her life- disasters, falling like chairs all around her, falling so close they disarranged her hair, but not touching her.

When, grown older, we look back on the selfishness of the people who've been mixed up with our lives, we see it undeniably for what it was, as hard as steel or platinum and a lot more durable than time itself. As

S rije?ima nikad nismo dovoljno na oprezu, rije?i se ?ine posve ništavne, svakako bezopasne, djeluju kao kakvi mali vjetrovi, mali glasovi iz usta, ni vru?i ni hladni, i lako hvatani ?im dopru kroz uho u golemu, sivu mlitavu dosadu mozga. Ne zaziremo od njih, rije?i, i eto ti nesre?e!

The words were terrible, but they didn't have any power.

Sometimes the briefest moments capture us, force us to take them in, and demand that we live the rest of our lives in reference to them.

Part of the job of being human is to consistently underestimate our effect on other people...

Un'ora breve di dolore c'impressiona lungamente; un giorno passa e non lascia traccia.

Always, everywhere, the world is filled with collisions.

He'd seen firsthand how raw parenting made you. Might as well strip your clothes off and run down High Street in a hail of gunfire. That was being a parent.

The anthology was not a best-seller; art as a weapon seldom is.