Making A Difference Quotes - Page 33

• 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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• We need government and business to work together for the benefit of everyone. It should no longer be just about typical "corporate social responsibility" where the "responsibility" bit is usually the realm of a small team buried in a basement office - now it should be about every single person in a business taking responsibility to make a difference in everything they do, at work and in their personal lives.

  Richard Branson

  Team, Responsibility, Government

  "Q&A With Sir Richard Branson: Dialogues on the Environment". Interview with Mark Tercek, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 28, 2013.

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• It doesn't matter that I play football. Anybody can make a difference in life.

  Tony Gonzalez

  Football, Play, Differences

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• Many things in your life matter, but only one thing matters absolutely.It matters whether you succeed or fail in the eyes of the world. It matters whether you are healthy or not healthy, whether you are educated or not educated. It matter whether you are rich or poor - it certainly makes a difference in your life. Yes, all these things matter, relatively speaking, but they don't matter absolutely.There is something that matters more than any of those things and that is finding the essence of who you are beyond that short-lived entity, that short-lived personalized sense of self.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Eye, Rich Or Poor, Self

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “Stillness Speaks”, p.51, New World Library

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• However, I think that sometimes when shows do, you know, have a good season or a bad season, it comes down to something as simple as the crop of contestants that year, and do they break through in a way that makes the audience excited. Those are the kinds of things that tend to make a difference, more so than tweaks to the format and that sort of stuff, as much as we, obviously, would all like to try to assume that it's in our power.

  Dan Cutforth

  Simple, Thinking, Years

  "Reality Check: Dan Cutforth On What Keeps ‘Top Chef’ Sharp, Cutting Through The Clutter & What’s Next". Interview with Dominic Patten, deadline.com. June 16, 2014.

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• Most serious plane crashes are survivable. There's a sense that, 'Oh, if we go down, that's it, it's out of my hands.' And that's just statistically not true. I have more optimism and more faith that my own actions can make a difference.

  Amanda Ripley

  Differences, Hands, Optimism

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• When you're really bummed out, the last thing you want to hear is up-tempo and positive. And it lets you know that you're not alone, that somebody has hurt before. It works the same way with chick songs as it does with political songs. When you hear somebody singing about these things, you know that you're not alone, that somebody else is suspicious of what's going on around us in the world. So you don't feel like you're crazy, and you feel like you might be able to make a difference.

  Steve Earle

  Song, Hurt, Crazy

  "The Revolution Starts Now". Interview with Jeff Fleischer, www.motherjones.com. October 14, 2004.

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• I like being the one who makes a difference. On the pitch, I always try to create a special situation.

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic

  Differences, Special, Trying

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I love music. I love making songs. I feel like I've been given a path where I can contribute, where I can protest if somebody does something really obviously wrong or inhuman right in front of me, where I can make a difference. Where I can most especially elevate, make you happy, elevate the condition, elevate the thing.

  David Crosby

  Song, Differences, Path

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• We are too focused on avoiding criticism and not enough on making a difference.

  Seth Godin

  Differences, Criticism, Enough

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• The important element is the way in which all things are connected. Every thought and action sends shivers of energy into the world around us, which affects all creation. Perceiving the world as a web of connectedness helps us to overcome the feelings of separation that hold us back and cloud our vision. This connection with all life increases our sense of responsability for every move, every attitude, allowing us to see clearly that each soul does indeed make a difference to the whole.

  Emma Restall Orr

  Attitude, Moving, Differences

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• Students need to be reminded that revision isn't merely making a few cosmetic changes. Revision is seeing and then reseeing our words and practicing strategies that make a difference in our writing.

  Georgia Heard

  Writing, Differences, Needs

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• What can you do to make a difference? And why should you do it? (...) the scale of one's social investments doesn't matter. What matters is that you operate as a force for good at every scale available to you.

  Richard Branson

  What Matters, Differences, Investment

  Richard Branson (2008). “Business Stripped Bare: Adventures of a Global Entrepreneur”, Virgin Pub

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