Making A Difference Quotes - Page 30

• The energy and commitment I've experienced from the Paul Mitchell Schools is overwhelming. I love working with them to create the magic it takes to make a difference.

  Leeza Gibbons

  School, Commitment, Differences

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• Life and study have persuaded me of the openness of history. There is no inevitability in history. Thinking about what might have happened, what could have happened, is a necessary element in trying to understand what did happen. And if, as I believe, individual acts of decency and courage make a difference, then they need to be recorded and remembered.

  Fritz Stern

  Believe, Thinking, Differences

  Fritz Stern (2007). “Five Germanys I Have Known”, p.10, Macmillan

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• Our words can have power that we don't think we have in everyday life - anyone can make a difference.

  Adora Svitak

  Thinking, Differences, Everyday

  "Amazing Kid! Spotlight on Adora Svitak, age 12, Amazing Young Educator, Author and Speaker". Interview with Kasy Dallman, mag.amazing-kids.org. September 2010.

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• God, show me how to pray in a way that will make a difference in this child’s life.

  Stormie Omartian

  Children, Differences, Way

  Stormie Omartian (2008). “The Power of Praying®: Help for a Woman's Journey Through Life”, p.27, Harvest House Publishers

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• I WILL FOLLOW ANYONE
  AND THANK EVERYONE
  WHO TRIES TO MAKE
  A DIFFERENCE IN THE LIVES
  OF VULNERABLE CIVILIANS

  Widad Akrawi

  Differences, Trying, Vulnerable

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• I salute every individual who honours the core values of peace and help in one way or another to make a difference.

  Widad Akrawi

  Differences, Way, Helping

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• I grew up believing that one person could make a difference. In Indiana, you saw that with basketball. The small town could beat the big town, like in the movie Hoosiers. That is one of the things that attracts me to entrepreneurs.

  Mary Meeker

  Basketball, Believe, Differences

  "The Indomitable Mary Meeker". Interview with Steven Levy, www.wired.com. September 21, 2012..

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• That which makes us DIFFERENT, will make a DIFFERENCE in the world some day. Be Yourself.

  Tom Krause

  Being Yourself, Differences, Different

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• Experiences are like cherry on the cake. It's nice, but that's not what's going to make a difference to the habit.

  Martine Batchelor

  Nice, Cake, Differences

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• I obviously hoped that everything that I found would make a difference. It ended up being way behind my wildest dreams.

  Jimmy Carter

  Dream, Differences, Way

  Interview with Wolf Blitzer, www.newsbusters.org. February 21, 2013.

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• My parents taught my sister and me the importance of giving back and making a difference in another person's life.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Differences, Giving, Parent

  "Exclusive: Beyoncé Discusses New H&M Campaign". Interview with Lisa Dougan, www.elle.com. April 15, 2013.

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• You don't need to come from wealth or privilege to make a difference.

  Joni Ernst

  Differences, Needs, Privilege

  Republican Response to State of the Union, www.weeklystandard.com. January 20, 2015.

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• Yesterday is a memory and tomorrow is a dream. Today is the day to make your mark—to make a difference.

  Shawn Phillips

  Dream, Memories, Yesterday

  Shawn Phillips (2008). “Strength for Life: The Fitness Plan for the Rest of Your Life”, p.179, Ballantine Books

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• Many kids in foster homes have a lot of emotions that are hard to get out. It's important to let them know they can make a difference in the community.

  Michael Franti

  Home, Kids, Differences

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• I'm on a mission to love, give as much as I can, and support people who make a difference.

  Pamela Anderson

  Differences, People, Giving

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• When you're in sync with the director, on the type of movie you want to make, the arc of the characters, how the characters intertwine and interact, plotlines and story, and things like that, it really makes a difference.

  Dwayne Johnson

  Character, Differences, Directors

  "Dwayne Johnson On Set Interview FASTER". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. November 1, 2010.

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• People don't believe that their actions really and truly are going to make a difference. But kids get it. They know. And they get all excited about the difference they're making.

  Jane Goodall

  Believe, Kids, Differences

  Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 1, 2010.

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• We must let the world know children’s stories and we must take effective protective, legal and political actions to ensure that as many children as possible are spared the brutalities of war. Our joint action has, and will, make a difference, if only we make the effort.

  Radhika Coomaraswamy

  Children, War, Differences

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• There are advantages to being the chairman. One of my favorite perks was picking out an issue and doing what I called a "deep dive." It's spotting a challenge where you think you can make a difference - one that looks like it would be fun - and then throwing the weight of your position behind it. Some might justifiably call it "meddling." I've often done this just about everywhere in the company.

  Jack Welch

  Fun, Thinking, Differences

  "Jack: Straight from the Gut". Book by Jack Welch, 2001.

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• What we mean by information - the elementary unit of information - is a difference which makes a difference, and it is able to make a difference because the neural pathways along which it travels and is continually transformed are themselves provided with energy. The pathways are ready to be triggered. We may even say that the question is already implicit in them.

  Gregory Bateson

  Mean, Differences, Energy

  "Steps to an Ecology of Mind". Book by Gregory Bateson, 1972.

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• a large percentage of bright young men and women locate the impetus behind their career choice in the belief that they are fundamentally different from the common run of man, unique and in certain crucial ways superior, more as it were central, meaningful - what else could explain the fact that they themselves have been at the exact center of all they've experienced for the whole 20 years of their conscious lives? - and that they can and will make a difference in their chosen field simply by the fact of their unique and central presence to it...

  David Foster Wallace

  Meaningful, Running, Unique

  "Oblivion: Stories (Mister Squishy)". Book by David Foster Wallace, June 8, 2004.

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• I don't think it makes a difference if you have children or you don't have children. I think it's all in the head about how you feel and, I don't know, I always like to be active and work out and eat right and just be active so I never see it as, oh when you're a mom you can't be sexy or you can't be in lingerie anymore looking good.

  Heidi Klum

  Mom, Sexy, Children

  WCBS-TV, December 03, 2008.

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• I really have to feel that I could make a difference in the movie, or I shouldn't be doing it.

  Joe Dante

  Differences, Feels

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The gun becomes this psychological totem, this thing of who I am. And it's almost as if using the gun is going to be the thing that's going to be my expression of how I make a difference in the world.

  David Brooks

  Gun, Who I Am, Expression

  "Meet the Press" with Chuck Todd, www.nbcnews.com. June 21, 2015.

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• We cannot become the world's policeman, but where our values and our interests are at stake, and where we can make a difference, we must act and we must lead. That is our job and we are better, stronger and safer because we are doing it.

  William J. Clinton

  Jobs, Differences, Stronger

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