Quotes about Impact
It's the radio, you see. The radio makes everyone feel the same thing at the same time. Instead of millions of various thoughts, one big psychological fixation. The radio commands our gut response.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Her mark on history: the female acquaintance.
— Barbara Kingsolver
If we do not teach our children, societ will. And they-and we-will live with the results.
— Stephen Covey
What we believe about ourselves and our purpose has a powerful impact on how we live, how we love, and what we learn.
— Stephen Covey
My mission is to live with integrity and to make a difference in the lives of others.
— Stephen Covey
There's no way we can escape accountability. We do make a difference—one way or the other. We are responsible for the impact of our lives.
— Stephen Covey
It shows, first of all, how powerfully conditioning affects our perceptions, and our paradigms. If ten seconds can have that kind of impact on the way we see things, what about the conditioning of a lifetime?
— Stephen Covey
Pareto Principle—80 percent of the results flow out of 20 percent of the activities.
— Stephen Covey
While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of those actions. Consequences are governed by natural law. They are out in the Circle of Concern. We can decide to step in front of a fast-moving train, but we cannot decide what will happen when the train hits us.
— Stephen Covey
Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil—the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.
— Stephen Covey
This is the true joy in life—that being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one. That being a force of nature, instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.
— Stephen Covey