Quotes About Impact

I think anytime you can affect people in general, in a positive way, then you're a lucky individual.

The Goal Is to Break Out, Not Blend In There are few times in your life when it isn't too melodramatic to say your destiny hangs on the impression you make.

Fighting is a way to feel, an anti–video game, a way to force some-thing to happen. That's what brought me back to it, because when I've fought someone, I know something has happened. How many days of your life pass you by that you could take or leave? When nothing really happened?

Consequences Culturally, we have drifted away from accountability in this country for at least the last generation and perhaps longer. The consequences have been more dire than most people realize. —Richard Chambers

One way of judging the quality of theologies," he explains, "is to see what sort of devotion they produce."32

If there is a pathway into the minds of human beings that bypasses consciousness and absorbs the emotions of others; and if this pathway can be activated by the sight of a bloody uniform, a hair-raising tribal dance, or just a deep stare; and if these displays can propel a team to run faster, jump higher, hit harder, and push through pain and exhaustion, then these captains must have been masters of the art.

To see if "cluster theory" explained the success of the teams in Tier One, I turned to baseball. In this sport, as I noted earlier, teammate interaction plays a limited role while the performance of individual players has a larger impact.

I might face death any minute now! But I should try not to put myself in harms' way as long as I can live. Of course it is not important if I die, because this is going to happen anyway. I know my purpose, my purpose is: How will my life or death impact the lives of others?

My mind boggles at the amount of violence inflicted upon children in today's society.

People who care, act, and refuse to give up may not change THE world, but they can change many individual worlds.

If I look at the mass, I will never act. If I look at the one, I will."[4]

I believed that the most important part of decision-making was not the justness of one's intentions but the effectiveness of one's actions.

Whenever my own thoughts about the state of the world headed toward a similarly bleak impasse, I would brainstorm with my team about how we might 'shrink the change' we hoped to see (p. 517).

Samantha Power

When kids make gross face, parents say, "One day your face is going to stick like that." I'm afraid that one day my panic's going to stick and it's going to be my entire life, every second, and there will be nothing else.

To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.

Mr. Tennyson has said that more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of, but he wisely refrains from saying whether they are good or bad things.

The evil that men do lives after them. Yes, and a good deal of the evil that they never did as well.

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

it is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and the lives of those who spring from us.

The reality is that the way in which a leader conducts his personal life does, in fact, have a profound impact on his ability to exercise effective public leadership.

When you believe in what you're doing and use your imagination and initiative, you can make a difference.

Exert your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don't think of retiring from the world, until the world will be sorry that you retire.

The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.