Quotes About Impact

If more than two percent of the neighborhood goes to prison, Clear concluded, the effect on crime starts to reverse.

Contagiousness is an unexpected property of all kinds of things.

Cultural legacies are powerful forces. They have deep roots and long lives.

La herencia cultural importa; y una vez que hemos visto el sorprendente efecto de cosas tales como la distancia al poder o el hecho de poder expresarse en un cuarto de segundo en lugar de invertir un tercio o una mitad, no es difícil preguntarse qué otras herencias culturales tendrán un impacto sobre nuestras tareas intelectuales del siglo XXI.

Just as Tom Gau could, through the persuasive force of his personality, serve as a Tipping Point in a word-of-mouth epidemic, the people who die in highly publicized suicides-whose deaths give others permission to die-serve as the Tipping Points in suicide epidemics.

it takes only the smallest of changes to shatter an epidemic's equilibrium.

Six degrees of separation doesn't mean that everyone is linked to everyone else in just six steps. It means that a very small number of people are linked to everyone else in a few steps, and the rest of us are linked to the world through those special few.

The values of the world we inhabit and the people we surround ourselves with have a profound effect on who we are. Those three things - autonomy, complexity and a connection between effort and reward - are, most people agree, the three qualities that work has to have if it is to be satisfying. It is not how much money we make that ultimately makes us happy between nine to five. It's whether our work fulfills us.

The Rule of 150 says that congregants of a rapidly expanding church, or the members of a social club, or anyone in a group activity banking on the epidemic spread of shared ideals needs to be particularly cognizant of the perils of bigness. Crossing the 150 line is a small change that can make a big difference.

In other words, in all of the city of Colorado Springs-a town of well in excess of 100,000 people-the epidemic of gonorrhea tipped because of the activities of 168 people living in four small neighborhoods and basically frequenting the same six bars.

The Rosetons were healthy because of where they were from, because of the world they had created for themselves in their tiny little town in the hills…The values of the world we inhabit and the people we surround ourselves with has a profound effect on who we are.

Reaching the consumer with the message is not the hard part of direct marketing. What is difficult is getting consumers to stop, read the advertisement, remember it, and then act on it.

Their success was not just of their own making. It was a product of the world in which they grew up.

MacCurdy argued that when a bomb falls, it divides the affected population into three groups. The first group is the people killed. They are the ones for whom the experience of the bombing is—obviously—the most devastating. But as MacCurdy pointed out (perhaps a bit callously), "the morale of the community depends on the reaction of the survivors, so from that point of view, the killed do not matter.

We all want to believe that the key to making an impact on someone lies with the inherent quality of the ideas we present.

The one thing that all educational researchers agree about is that teacher quality matters far more than the size of the class. A great teacher can teach your child a year and a half's material in one year. A below-average teacher might teach your child half a year's material in one year.

When [Sylvia] Plath committed suicide, the suicide rate for women of her age in England reached a staggering 10 per 100,000. Driven by a tragically high number of deaths by gas poisoning. That is as high as the suicide rate for women in England has ever been. By 1977 when the Natural Gas changeover was complete, the suicide rate for young woman was half that.

The studies show essentially that a child is better off in a good neighborhood in a troubled family than he or she is in a troubled neighborhood in a good family.

Y?l?n baÅŸlar?nda doÄŸmuÅŸ bir çocuÄŸun sonlar?nda doÄŸmuÅŸ bir çocuÄŸun kar??s?nda baÅŸlang?çta sahip olduÄŸu küçük avantaj devam ediyor. Bu da çocuklar? y?llarca uzay?p giden baÅŸar? ve baÅŸar?s?zl?k, teÅŸvik etme ve cesaret k?rma modelleri içine hapsediyor.

Contagiousness is in larger part a function of the messenger. Stickiness is primarily a property of the message.

Cultural legacies are powerful forces. They have deep roots and long lives. They persist, generation after generation, virtually intact, even as the economic and social, and demographic conditions that spawned them have vanished, and they play such a role in directing attitudes and behavior that we cannot make sense of our world without them.

BaÅŸar? sadece kendi eserleri deÄŸil. Ä°çinde büyüdükleri dünyan?n bir ürünü.

Most psychologists believe that nature—genetics—accounts for about half of the reason why we tend to act the way we do. His point is simply that there are certain times and places and conditions when much of that can be swept away, that there are instances where you can take normal people from good schools and happy families and good neighborhoods and powerfully affect their behavior merely by changing the immediate details of their situation. This

Sternberg'e göre pratik zeka, "kime ne söyleyeceÄŸini bilmek, bunu ne zaman söyleyeceÄŸini bilmek ve maksimum etki için bunu nas?l söyleyeceÄŸini bilmek" gibi ÅŸeyler içeriyor. Bu yöntemseldir: bir ÅŸeyi, neden bildiÄŸinizi bilmeden de, onu aç?klayamadan da nas?l yapaca??n?z? bilmekle ilgilidir. DoÄŸas? gereÄŸi pratiktir.