Quotes About Impact

Just know this: What you will do among children is as close to the heart of God and central to his kingdom as anything we could mention.

Not everyone may like what you do but you are the reason someone finds happiness in life so don't stop.

After 20 years on the bench I have concluded that federal drug laws are a disaster. It is time to get the government out of drug enforcement.

I'd better get back to work. I have empires to topple, people to fire, lives to ruin...

When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they'll remember and be kind to someone else. And it'll become like a wildfire.

The reality of this election is that we can choose between a disappointing Democrat and the end of the world.

I believe that there are dark and difficult days ahead, and you won't be playing for an increase in company dividens - you will be playing for the survival of a nation, and if you fail, it will mean the end of the world you know. You will not suffer alone -

Walk with the dreamers, the believers, the courageous, the cheerful, the planners, the doers, the successful people with their heads in the clouds and their feet on the ground. Let their spirit ignite a fire within you to leave this world better than when you found it...

My anger with the US was not at first, that they had used that weapon - although that anger came later.

And you have fixed my life — however short. You did not light me: I was always a mad comet; but you have fixed me. I spun round you a satellite for a month, but I shall swing out soon, a dark star in the orbit where you will blaze.

Results are nothing; the energies which produce them and which again spring from them are everything.

Our words are giants when they do us an injury, and dwarfs when they do us a service.

Men little know when they say hard things to us how well we remember them, and how much harm they do us.

The Mexicans gave the Spaniards malaria, and the Spaniards gave the Mexicans smallpox, whooping cough, diphtheria, and syphilis. The Spaniards believed it was better to give than to receive.

Even in countries that have been targets of intensive terror campaigns, such as Israel, the weekly number of casualties almost never came close to the number of traffic deaths.

Indeed, the mere exposure effect is actually stronger for stimuli that the individual never consciously sees

Beatty e eu trabalhamos juntos durante apenas um ano, mas nossa colaboração teve grande efeito em nossas carreiras subsequentes.

traffic deaths.

An impressive series of studies by Thomas Åstebro sheds light on what happens when optimists receive bad news.

a single cockroach will completely wreck the appeal of a bowl of cherries, but a cherry will do nothing at all for a bowl of cockroaches. As he points out, the negative trumps the positive in many ways, and loss aversion is one of many manifestations of a broad negativity dominance.

Bad weather is associated with improved memory; judicial sentences tend to be more severe when it is hot outside; and stock market performance is affected by sunshine.

How large is occasion noise relative to total system noise?

The truth is that small schools are not better on average; they are simply more variable.

Groups can go in all sorts of directions, depending in part on factors that should be irrelevant. Who speaks first, who speaks last, who speaks with confidence, who is wearing black, who is seated next to whom, who smiles or frowns or gestures at the right moment—all these factors, and many more, affect outcomes.