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• We may not be able to create or control all of the events that impact our lives but we can create and control our responses to everything that we experience.

  Ilchi Lee

  Events, May, Able

  Ilchi Lee (2005). “Human Technology: A Toolkit for Authentic Living”, p.22, Healing Society

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• Some may still deny the overwhelming judgment of science, but none can avoid the devastating impact of raging fires, and crippling drought, and more powerful storms.

  Barack Obama

  Powerful, Fire, Storm

  Second Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 21 January 2013, Washington, D.C.

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• Imagine, just for the sake of discussion, that you had a few hours a week and a few dollars a month to donate to a cause - and you wanted to spend that time and money where it would have the greatest impact in saving and improving lives. Where would you spend it?

  Bill Gates

  Dollars, Saving, Sake

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• We are living in a time where we just don't have enough time. People are rushed. They're over worked, over scheduled. Not enough resources. ...But the thing that I want people to understand in this campaign is that families can make small manageable changes in their lives that can have pretty significant impacts.

  Michelle Obama

  Children, People, Enough Time

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• Few things have more impact than nutrition on a child's ability to survive, learn effectively and escape a life of poverty.

  Ann Veneman

  Children, Poverty, Nutrition

  "25% of world's children underweight", www.theguardian.com. May 2, 2006.

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• Perhaps September 11 could be called the first historic world event in the strictest sense: the impact, the explosion, the slow collapse - a gruesome reality literally took place in front of a global public.

  Jurgen Habermas

  Reality, House, September 11

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• When it comes down to it, determination has a greater impact than giftedness.

  Kristin Armstrong

  Determination, Giftedness, Greater

  Kristin Armstrong (2011). “Mile Markers: The 26.2 Most Important Reasons Why Women Run”, p.81, Rodale

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• What one skill, if you developed it, could have the greatest positive impact on your career? This is the key to your future.

  Brian Tracy

  Keys, Skills, Careers

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• Without impact, innovation is just an idea with promise.

  Judith Rodin

  Ideas, Innovation, Promise

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• Focus on money and we will make money. Focus on impact and we will make an impact.

  Simon Sinek

  Focus, Making Money

  Twitter post from Jan 12, 2012

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• I know it's easier to portray a world filled with cynicism and anger, where problems are solved with violence...It's an easy out. What's a whole lot tougher is to offer alternatives, to present other ways conflicts can be resolved, and to show you can have a positive impact on your world. To do that, you have to put yourself out on a limb, take chances, and run the risk of being called a do-gooder.

  Jim Henson

  Running, Risk, World

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• Genius is in the idea. Impact, however, comes from action!

  Simon Sinek

  Ideas, Genius, Action

  Twitter post from Jul 09, 2014

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• One Spirit Medicine opens the doors to the invisible matrix of wisdom where everything is intertwined, where every thought we have impacts every cell in our body and every molecule in the cosmos.

  Alberto Villoldo

  Doors, Cells, Medicine

  Alberto Villoldo (2015). “One Spirit Medicine: Ancient Ways to Ultimate Wellness”, p.39, Hay House, Inc

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• Extend some kind of unexpected generosity to someone, preferably a stranger, every single day for two weeks. The more you practice being generous, the more you'll impact others in an inspiring way.

  Wayne Dyer

  Practice, Two, Generosity

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Jul 01, 2010

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• Research has shown that a simple act of kindness directed toward another improves the functioning of the immune system and stimulates the production of serotonin in both the recipient of the kindness and the person extending the kindness. Kindness extended, received or observed beneficially impacts the physical health and feelings of everyone involved.

  Wayne Dyer

  Kindness, Simple, Feelings

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Jul 28, 2011

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• Our mental and emotional diets determine our overall energy levels, health, and well-being to a far greater extent than most people realize. Every thought and feeling, no matter how big or small, impacts our inner energy reserves.

  Howard Martin

  Emotional, People, Feelings

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• Probably my first memory of theatre, the first one I guess that had an impact on me was when I saw my very first panto with my Primary School. I think just going there and experience that for the first time, being so young, it's something that's actually stuck with me right up until now. And to think back and to sort of remember that magic and that first little hint of it was brilliant.

  Colin Morgan

  Memories, School, Thinking

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• The people who have impacted the world didn't live long. Martin Luther King. John F. Kennedy. These people who impact the world were not old people, but they lived so effectively that we cannot erase them from history.

  Myles Munroe

  Kings, Long, People

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• Without leadership ability,a person's impact is only a fraction of what it could be with good leadership.

  John C. Maxwell

  Good Leadership, Fractions, Ability

  John C. Maxwell (2007). “The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow You”, p.5, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• You don't have to make it big, but you do have to make a big impact.

  Jamie McCall

  Bigs, Big Impact

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• The most powerful decision-making part of the audience is women. Boys have a lot of impact on the industry, but it's often women who impact what stories get made.

  Nina Jacobson

  Powerful, Boys, Decision

  "12 Quotes By 5 Female Filmmakers at Chapman: 'It's Not a Level Playing Field, Get Over It'". Nina Jacobson's speech at the 13th Women in Focus conference at Chapman University's Dodge College of Film and Media Arts, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 20, 2012.

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• As each of us awakens, it impacts human consciousness at a collective level. It is like dropping a tiny pebble of light into a dark pool of unconsciousness . Ripples of light!

  Leonard Jacobson

  Dark, Light, Levels

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• A CEO's behavior has a huge impact on managers down the line.

  Warren Buffett

  Lines, Behavior, Ceo

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• The only way change will ever happen is if we speak up, and we have to know that it actually has an impact. Because we have a lot more power than we think we do, I think.

  Josh Brolin

  Thinking, Way, Speak

  Interview with Eddie Vedder, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 21, 2008.

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• John Hughes had such a huge impact on filmmaking.

  Molly Ringwald

  Movie, Actors, Filmmaking

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