Quotes About Impact

The generation that destroys the environment is not the generation that pays the price. That is the problem.

The minority gives way not because it is convinced that it is wrong, but because it is convinced that it is a minority. Stephen, Liberty, Equality, Fraternity (1873)

Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery. Everyone feels that he or she makes a difference to the success of the organization. When that happens people feel centered and that gives their work meaning.

Keith Yamashita says companies can try to find their cause by asking, What does the world hunger for?

When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results.

Journalism is just a gun. It's only got one bullet in it, but if you aim right, that's all you need. Aim it right, and you can blow a kneecap off the world.

All women's issues are to some degree men's issues and all men's issues are to some degree women's issues because when either sex wins unilaterally both sexes lose.

brief, I saw how "dad deprivation" and the purpose void had a compounding effect.

even when race, education, income, and other socioeconomic factors are equal, living without dad doubled a child's chance of dropping out of high school.5

The boy crisis' primary cause is dad-deprived boys. Dad deprivation stems primarily from a lack of father involvement, and secondarily from devaluing what a father contributes when he is involved.

They confirmed that father absence is not just correlated with negative outcomes but actually causes negative outcomes.

There was silence, all the louder for having been broken once.

My sons weren't sure what I was getting at. It doesn't matter anyway, because it won't be an option for them. They don't have a Tom Petty. They're borrowing mine.

you might not be interested in politics, but politics is interested in you.

The eyes are hammers.

What would it take to make you intervene

Character is contagious.

One uncontrolled character flaw can ruin your greatest accomplishment.

An entire nation shook under the power of one man's [MLK's] dream! Now if one dream can do that for our nation, imagine what a dream can do for the Church.

Four days a week at a hundred a day . . . that's four hundred people, weekly, moseying past our group, noticing open Bibles and eager disciples. In four weeks 1,600 people will amble by our quiet 20/20/20 testimony.

If you are not familiar with millibars, 1020 is high; 1000 is low; and what really matters is direction and speed of change.

One's character is set at an early age. The choices you make now will affect you for the rest of your life. I hate to see you swim out so far you can't swim back.

...Next time you're faced with a choice, do the right thing. It hurts everyone less in the long run.

One's character is set at an early age. The choices you make now will affect you for the rest of your life. I hate to see you swim out so far you can't swim back.