Making A Difference Quotes - Page 13

• It’s not about making money for themselves or the company, but making a difference in the lives of others.

  Don Yaeger

  Differences, Making Money, Company

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• Our mission is to speak the truth to power. We send home that first rough draft of history. We can and do make a difference in exposing the horrors of war and especially the atrocities that befall civilians.

  Marie Colvin

  War, Home, Differences

  "Marie Colvin: 'Our mission is to report these horrors of war with accuracy and without prejudice'" by Marie Colvin, www.theguardian.com. February 22, 2012.

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• We cannot wait for others to make a difference, we have to be the change ourselves. To be a part of the making of yet another cancer hospital is a blessing in itself.' Watch me live on ARY Digital and donate to Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre in Peshawar as much as you can.

  Hadiqa Kiani

  Cancer, Blessing, Differences

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• This is my moment, this is my chance to make a difference, and you know, I just went for the ball, I attacked it, and I went and got it, ... I was gonna catch that ball, regardless of what happens.

  Santana Moss

  Differences, Balls, Chance

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• While my military experience reinforced in me the strength that I have, it also demonstrated to me that I have the ability and power to make a difference in people's lives.

  Earl Woods

  Military, Differences, People

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• Practice being gentle, respectful and loving toward the life force in all things. Remind yourself that your efforts do make a difference, even if you think they are miniscule in comparison to the magnitude of the problem.

  Wayne Dyer

  Thinking, Practice, Differences

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• True generosity consists precisely in fighting to destroy the causes which nourish false charity.

  Paulo Freire

  Fighting, Trembling Hands, Generosity

  Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.32, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• I want to be remembered as someone who put India on the scientific map of the world in terms of large innovation. I want to be remembered for making a difference to global healthcare. And I want to be remembered as someone who did make a difference to social economic development in India.

  Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

  Differences, Entrepreneur, Innovation

  "$800 million biotech business started in a garage" by Becky Anderson, www.cnn.com. November 15, 2012.

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• To each his own way and his own prayer. God does not take us at our word. He looks deep into our hearts. It is not the ceremonies or rituals that make a difference, but whether our hearts are sufficiently pure or not.

  Elif Safak

  Prayer, Heart, Differences

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• Well-being is like water moving down hill. When you block the water, the water turns into a reservoir, reservoir of well-being instead of a flow of well-being. To well-being it doesn’t make a difference.

  John de Ruiter

  Block, Moving, Differences

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• Act always from a sense of common humanity, and let God judge if it be charity.

  Robert Breault

  Letting Go, Common Humanity, Judging

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• Women don't seek power for its own sake, but to make a difference and overcome each challenge

  Kathleen Wynne

  Differences, Challenges, Overcoming

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• A difference is a difference only if it makes a difference.

  Darrell Huff

  Differences, Ifs

  Darrell Huff (2010). “How to Lie with Statistics”, p.60, W. W. Norton & Company

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• It obviously makes a difference whether we consider ourselves as pawns in a game whose rules we call reality or as players of the game who know that the rules are ‘real’ only to the extent that we have created or accepted them, and that we can change them.

  Paul Watzlawick

  Real, Player, Games

  Giorgio Nardone, Paul Watzlawick (1993). “The art of change: strategic therapy and hypnotherapy without trance”, Jossey-Bass

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• Canada is big enough to make a difference but not big enough to threaten anybody. And that is a huge asset if it's properly used.

  Stephen Harper

  Differences, Canada, Enough

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• I don't see how you can grow as a world without being able to get along with people. So many people is hating out there and it's not making a difference.

  Rodney King

  Hate, Differences, People

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If there is anything serious enough to make a difference in my ife, I will talk about it.

  Anushka Sharma

  Differences, Serious, Enough

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• I love writing songs. I love doing my radio show and talking to the fans and listening to what they have to say, but there's a certain responsibility that comes along with being given the gift of music. I take that seriously, but at the same time I try to use it to do something that makes a difference in a positive way.

  Randy Owen

  Song, Writing, Responsibility

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• As long as God lets me live, I want to do things that make a difference in the world besides play music.

  Randy Owen

  Play, Differences, Long

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• In every single job, in every single business, in every single profession - in whatever you do - there can be the satisfaction and the happiness that comes from knowing that what you do is important, that what you do makes a difference in the lives of the people you serve.

  Wayne D. Dosick

  Jobs, Work, Differences

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• Thoughtful people are concerned with the future because that is the only area of experience about which anything can be done. We cannot change the past, and the present is gone as soon as it is reported, but the future is that in which we can make a difference.

  D. Elton Trueblood

  Future, Thoughtful, Past

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• One
  person can make a difference. You don't have to be a big shot. You
  don't have to have a lot of influence. You just have to have faith in
  your power to change things.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Differences, Have Faith, Influence

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• We have never worried about numbers. In the marketplace, Apple is trying to focus the spotlight on products, because products really make a difference. You can't con people in this business. The products speak for themselves.

  Steve Jobs

  Apples, Numbers, People

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• As a population, if a large number of people make even small moves to eat less meat and more plant-based foods, the livestock industry will shrink. Over time, farmers will find other crops to support their livelihoods. Through such collective awakening we can make a difference in our world.

  Nhat Hanh

  Motivational, Moving, Differences

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• The television reports gave me my first inkling of a world beyond my own, a world that wasn't fair or equal, a world of poverty, war, disease and famine. But I also realized that this state of affairs wasn't necessarily a given, and that we have it in our power to make a difference, to make the world a better place for all. We have that choice. One thing's for sure, though - if we do nothing, it will be a given.

  Chrissie Wellington

  Motivational, War, Differences

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