Quotes About Impact

little things done well consistently can have big effects—has merit.

I'm very thankful to players like John Stockton and Spud Webb. They've made it possible for someone like me to make it. I think teams are actually looking for one player under 6-feet now, because they make things happen.

Technology is similarly just a catalyst at times for fundamental forces already present.

Indeed, when you write, the point isn't to make your reader understand. The point is to make him or her feel.

If you finish first, your friends may become jealous, your family might think you've gotten too big for your britches, and your competition might put a target on your back. So it's better to not compete. Better, that is, for your friends, your family, and your competition. But it's not better for you. Donald Miller

We haven't even stopped to consider the fact that losing might not hurt anyone. What if, by shielding people in this way, we're stealing the transformational power of both winning and losing in their lives? The irony is that if you believe nothing matters in life, you will live a life that doesn't matter.

This is where you and I are headed.... Look for us in history books and you'll find us in the margins. Look for us in legends and you might just find us celebrated

You're a lever and a fulcrum, you two, looking for a city to turn upside down.

When someone like you pushes the world, the world pushes back. Other people are likely to get hurt. Am I clear?

The population began dwindling after silk hats replaced beaver hats in high fashion... collapsing the fur trade, in what would become a familiar pattern for Detroit.

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American scientists blew up a hydrogen bomb that was a hundred times as powerful as the one used in Hiroshima right outside the atmosphere in the summer of 1962, just to find out what would happen.

1026. Confidential data from the maritime industry that leaked information revealed that one giant container ship can emit the same amount of cancer and asthma-causing chemicals as fifty million cars. That means the top fifteen largest container ships together in the world may be emitting as

much pollution as all 760 million cars on Earth.

I may have drawn an axe being raised in this example, but I'm not the one who let it drop or decided how hard the blow, or who screamed, or why. That, dear reader, was your special crime. Each of you was committing it in your own style.

What an expensive and needless mess. You could probably find a cure for cancer in a year if you just reassigned all the smart people who are now working on this artificially created and otherwise useless problem.

What laid me low was no mystical vision, no message from God, but a blow of compassion. In a wakeful mind, no force is more terrible, or precious.

The dead don't care what you say, but maybe the words you speak at a graveside aren't for the dead at all. Maybe those words are for the living.

Choices have consequences.

If my mind could have made a sound, it would have burst a row of wineglasses.

the gospel is not at work in the life of church leaders, then it is highly unlikely it will be at work in the life of the church.

Sometimes stories have too much power. They change who people think you are.

Look at this lot - how we all threw ourselves into a fight just for him. We're not soldiers. But we know that what we do when we're with him matters.

I'd like now and into the future to play a bigger role not only in Wisconsin and the Midwest, but nationally. I'd like to have an impact.