Quotes about Impact

It is inspiring to realize that in choosing our response to circumstance, we powerfully affect our circumstance. When we change one part of the chemical formula, we change the nature of the results. • •

Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us. OBJECTIVE INTROSPECTION Until we see ourselves from the outside objectively, we will automatically project our motives onto other people.

Most people see effectiveness from the golden egg paradigm: the more you produce, the more you do, the more effective you are.

conditioning of a lifetime? The influences in our lives—family, school, church, work environment, friends, associates, and current social paradigms such as the Personality Ethic—all have made their silent unconscious impact on us and help shape our frame of reference, our paradigms, our maps.

In the words of William George Jordan, "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."

But to take the child alone, quietly, when the relationship is good and to discuss the teaching or the value seems to have much greater impact.

Whether you are a mailman, a hairdresser, an insurance salesman, a housewife—whatever. As long as you feel you are serving others, you do the job well. When you are concerned only with helping yourself, you do it less well—a law as inexorable as gravity.

If you carefully consider what you wanted to be said of you in the funeral experience, you will find your definition of success. It

To live, to love, to learn, to leave a legacy.

Love without action is meaningless and action without love is irrelevant.

It is not the magnitude of our actions, but the amount of love that is put into them that matters.

It's not what you do, but how much love you put into it that matters.