Quotes About Impact

it doesn't matter if people love you or hate you, as long as they feel strongly one way or the other. The worst place you can be is in the middle.

impact of this makeover has been to significantly impede historical research, and it is one of Ataturk's most devastating accomplishments.

I think every form of art should be political.

Delaney turned me on to so many things. He played me the music of J. J. Cale, which was to become an enormous influence.

There seems to be a silent acknowledgment among most players that we have a certain responsibility as teachers or healers, and although we all have different ways of honoring this commitment, it is certainly something we are all aware of.

never occurred to me that perhaps I wasn't responsible for everything that happened in the world.

When an explosion takes place lots of bits and pieces fly all over the scenery. The greater the wallop the larger the lumps and the farther they travel. These are fundamental facts known to every schoolchild old enough to have some sneaky suspicions about the birds and the bees. They were not known or perhaps they were not fully realized by Johannes Pretorius van der Camp Blieder despite the fact that he was fated to create the biggest bang in human history.

If ministry success is our god, we are likely to take the shortest path to greater and greater "victories," but preparing and developing people is never on the shortest path.

We have observed two common yet flawed views that unfortunately impact a church's likelihood to make disciples that are transformed: equating information with discipleship and viewing discipleship merely as behavioral modification. Discipleship is much more than information and much deeper than behavioral modification.

Leadership is much like nuclear energy. It is able to warm a whole city or bring it to waste in death and destruction; it's all in how it is used.

There is a patent conflict between the need to reverse or at least to control the impact of our economy on the biosphere and the imperatives of a capitalist market: maximum continuing growth in the search for profit.

sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will make me cry by myself in a corner for hours.

Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will make you go into a corner by myself and cry for hours.

Few people consider that something as simple as an ill-fitted horseshoe could break a horse as quickly as overburdening it or failing to provide it with adequate rest or fodder.

What I think you think about what I want creates storms of behaviour that change what is.

Creativity is not a talent or ability. It is the fruit of a person's decision to matter.

In our own city, we do an analysis every year. We ask our community: What are the top three needs in the community? What are the three greatest influences? And what are the churches in this community doing to put a dent in those three needs

How can you change the world? The answer: find seven women, turn them loose, and watch Satan tremble in their presence." —

most Britons went about their lives with no idea of the universe of horrors that existed under the British flag or the nightmarish way of life of the slaves, whose existence was nonetheless intimately intertwined with their own way of life thousands of miles away.

What made Wilberforce one of the best speakers of his day is complex

Everyone who ever heard him seems to have agreed that the exceeding excellence of Wilberforce's speaking ability was less in what he said than in how he said it.

It is sufficient for us that we witness their humiliation," he said. "Posterity will huzza for us."32

The Gospel of Christ was the most powerful sociological leveler in history

By the time Whitefield died in 1770, an inconceivable 80 percent of the population of the American colonies had heard him preach at least once.