“I love baseball. The game allowed me the influence to impact kids in a positive way. This gives me a chance to talk to some social issues.” WayGivingKidsGamesSocialChanceIssuesInfluenceBaseballGive MeImpactSocial IssuesGive Me A ChanceBaseball Love Author:Cal Ripken, Jr.
“The chances of there being transmissibility by blood to blood contact on a basketball court is so infinitesimally small that it is something that shouldn't influence a decision whether someone would come back or not.” ChanceDecisionBloodInfluenceBasketballCourtContactBasketball Court Author:Anthony S. Fauci
“Let us build a structure of peace in the world in which the weak are as safe as the strong in which each respects the right of the other to live by a different system in which those who would influence others will do so by the strength of their ideas, and not by the force of their arms. Let us accept that high responsibility not as a burden, but gladly gladly because the chance to build such a peace is the noblest endeavor in which a nation can engage.” WorldIdeasDifferentStrongForceNationsPeaceChanceResponsibilityAcceptingInfluenceArmsSafeWeakStructureBurdenLive ByEndeavor Author:Richard M. Nixon
“An earthly immortality belongs to a great and good character. History embalms it; it lives in its moral influence, in its authority, in its example, in the memory of the words and deeds in which it was manifested; and as every age adds to the illustrations of its efficacy, it may chance to be the best understood by a remote posterity.” MayCharacterAgeMemoriesChanceMoralInfluenceExampleFameAuthorityUnderstoodAddDeedsImmortalityBeing The BestPosterityIllustrationGood CharacterEfficacy Book:Orations and Speeches on Various Occasions Source: Orations and Speeches on Various Occasions
“The difficulty in judging what type of behavior works well arises not only because a given course of action does not always produce the outcomes. Similar outcomes can occur for reasons other than the person's actions, which further complicates inferential judgment. Effects that arise independently of one's actions distort the influence of similar effects produced by the actions, but only on some occasions. Given a strong cognitive set to perceive regularities, even chance joint occurrences of events can be easily misjudged as genuine relationships of low contingent probability” WellsPersonsDoeReasonActionCoursesStrongGivenChanceInfluenceEffectsEventsProduceJudgingTypeBehaviorJudgmentLowsDifficultyGenuineAriseOccasionsPerceiveOutcomesProbabilityJointsCognitiveRegularitySelf Efficacy Author:Albert Bandura
“I meet regularly with my staff to ensure they are aware of what I want, but also to make sure they have the chance to influence the process and use all of their knowledge to help prepare the group.” WantHelpingUseProcessChanceGroupsInfluenceStaff Author:Brendan Rodgers