Quotes About Impact

Yes, your children are constantly observing you. They are profoundly influenced by what they record. And that can quickly turn from funny to serious, especially when mommy and daddy start fighting.

One cannot affect another without being affected themselves. - Kathryn Ferentchak

Feeling leads to understanding, understanding leads to sympathizing, sympathizing leads to action, and with action, we can change the world. - Maya Dehlin

The Peterson Foundation calculates that, since 2010, fiscal uncertainty—i.e., gridlock—might have slowed America's GDP growth by one percentage point and stopped the creation of two million jobs.

As a generation, as a society, we never talk about the shit that went down with the fear of nuclear war. Not really. We'll laugh about how scary The Day After was, but we never recognize that we were raised in despair and probably handed it down to our kids and to later versions of ourselves.

Great men are usually the products of their times and one of the men developed by these times takes rank with the greatest railroad leaders in history.

Wherever man has left his footprint in the long ascent from barbarism to civilization we will find the hoofprint of the horse beside it.

Three things matter in a speech - who says it, how he says it and what he says, and of the three, the latter matters the least

Each person leaves a legacy -- a single, small piece of herself, which makes richer each individual life and the collective life of humanity as a whole.

He paid attention to what was going on around him. Not for what he could get out of the situation. But for what he could give. This is the difference between a life of success and a life of significance. It's the difference between a quick win and a true victory.

Everything we do matters. Our lives are sacred. There are no small players. There are no small tasks.

It is going to be too easy for things to start feeling normal—especially if you are someone who is not directly impacted by his actions. So keep reminding yourself: This is not normal. Write it on a Post-It note and stick it on your refrigerator, hire a skywriter once a month, tattoo it on your ass. Because a Klan-backed misogynist internet troll is going to be delivering the next State of the Union address. And that is not normal. It is fucked up.

Jesus put it like this: You are the salt of the earth. You are the light of the world. Others have come before you. Others will come after you. But this is your day. If God's kingdom is to manifest itself right now, it will have to be through you. God himself will not come to take your place. You are on a mission from God.

None of us may ever know the true effects of our prayers this side of death. But we do know this: History belongs to the intercessors.

If the Word does not dwell with power in us, it will not pass with power from us.

Authentic leadership shows up whenever someone facilitates and stimulates collective change for the good of the whole.

Question: Is there one takeaway you want readers to carry with them? JK: Yes. In these turbulent times, sufficient leadership, not just from the top couple of people, is very important, far too rare, and it does not have to be that way. It often starts with only one person not looking away or waiting for something to happen, but seizing opportunities to act where others see problems, fault or threat. Why couldn't that one person be you, or anyone reading this interview right now?

In many cases, clever design of educational experiences can deliver greater impact at one-half or less the cost of conventional approaches. I also think that training can easily become a disempowering experience if the implicit message is "shut up and do it this way" instead of "we will be delegating more, so we are providing this course to help you with your new responsibilities.

Nothing undermines change more than behavior by important individuals that is inconsistent with the verbal communication.

We live in a 'two-hundred-year present'.

The turning point in our 200-year present is pregnant with enormous potential to constructively impact affect the fundamental well-being of the human community. However, contrary to the range of scientific and political projections, this turn in humanity's journey does not rotate on which specific forms of governing political, economic, or social structures we devise.

And death, for those who live on, is the end of a chapter rather than the end of a book, and although the dead may have no more part to play as characters, their influence may continue right though the story.

There was a shift in consciousness underway, but by the end of '67 I felt like we'd gone too far. I actually considered doing something spectacularly terrible to get America's attention on what was going on with us, because we were sort of driving society over a cliff.

We are in the middle of the most transforming technological event since the capture of fire.