“You're not just trying to do something marginally, incrementally better. You're doing something that is a fundamental paradigm shift, that will have exponential impact. That means it's harder to do, but ultimately, if it's successful, the impact it has is far greater.” IfsTryingMeanSuccessfulGreaterHarderFundamentalsImpactParadigmParadigm Shift Author:Steve Case
“Christmas was on a Sunday in 2005, which had a greater than expected negative impact on retail and classified advertising during the last weekend of our fiscal year. In addition, our California papers had held up well in automotive advertising, but the industry-wide decline in this category reached them in the fourth quarter as well.” YearsWellsLastsGreaterIndustryPaperNegativeImpactWideExpectedAdvertisingCaliforniaSundayCategoriesQuartersWeekendDeclineFourthPapersRetailFourth Quarter Author:Gary Pruitt
“...Simplifications have had a much greater long-range scientific impact than individual feats of ingenuity. The opportunity for simplification is very encouraging, because in all examples that come to mind the simple and elegant systems tend to be easier and faster to design and get right, more efficient in execution, and much more reliable than the more contrived contraptions that have to be debugged into some degree of acceptability....Simplicity and elegance are unpopular because they require hard work and discipline to achieve and education to be appreciated.” MindLongHardOpportunityIndividualSimpleGreaterAchieveExampleDesignHard WorkDisciplineEasierDegreesImpactSimplicityFasterRangeEfficientExecutionElegantAppreciatedEleganceIngenuityFeatsSimplificationSimplicity And Elegance Author:Edsger Dijkstra
“If adapted to the unique requirements of various regions and peoples of the world, such economic pluralism could have a greater global impact over the next fifty years than the collectivist economics of Marxism and neo-Marxism have had during the half century just past.” IfsWorldYearsWisdomPastNextPoliticsHalfEconomyGreaterEconomicCenturyUniqueEconomicsImpactVariousLiberalismFiftyRegionsRequirementsMarxismAdaptedPluralism Author:Robert Dickson Crane
“Our liberties face a far greater threat from Hillary Clinton ... than from Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden. I am not saying that for impact; I believe that to the core of my being.” BelieveFacesI BelieveLibertyGreaterImpactThreatClintonCoreSaddamHusseinBin LadenOsama Bin Laden Author:Neal Boortz
“Love and intimacy are at the roots of what makes us sick and what makes us well, what causes sadness and what brings happiness, what makes us suffer and what leads to healing...I am not aware of any other factor in medicine- not diet, not smoking, not exercise, not stress, not genetics, not drugs, not surgery- that has a greater impact on our quality of life, incidence of illness and premature death from all causes.” WellsSufferingCausesHealingQualityGreaterSadnessExerciseDrugRootsSickStressImpactMedicineIllnessFactorsIntimacyDietsSmokingSurgeryQuality Of LifeGeneticsPrematureIncidencePremature Death Author:Dean Ornish
“The child to be concerned about is the one who is actively unhappy, [in school].... In the long run, a child's emotional development has a far greater impact on his life than his school performance or the curriculum's richness, so it is wise to do everything possible to change a situation in which a child is suffering excessively.” ChildrenLongRunningSchoolSufferingSituationGreaterWiseEmotionalDevelopmentConcernedPerformancesImpactUnhappyLong RunsRichnessCurriculumEmotional Development Author:Dorothy H Cohen
“There's no greater gift than thinking that you had some impact on the world, for the better.” ThinkingWorldGreaterImpactImpact On The World Author:Gloria Steinem
“God is infinitely valuable. I can't think of anything that would have a greater impact on your life than for you to believe that.” ThinkingBelieveI CanGreaterImpactValuable Author:John Piper
“I cannot think of a more personally rewarding and appropriate use of wealth than to give while one is living.... Interventions have greater value and impact today than if they are delayed.” IfsThinkingGivingUseTodayValuesWealthGreaterImpactAppropriateInterventionDelayed Author:Chuck Feeney
“The impact on a customer of a bad buying decision is usually greater than the impact of a salesperson of a lost deal.” LostDecisionDealsGreaterImpactCustomersBuyingSalesperson Author:Donal Daly
“While it is a cause for regret that Fischer did not continue to produce scintillating games, he perhaps had a greater impact on chess than any other twentieth century player” GamesCausesGreaterPlayerCenturyProduceRegretImpactChessTwentieth CenturyFischer Author:John Nunn
“Those of us who have been blessed with worldly success have an even greater responsibility to make an impact with our time, talents, and resources.” Has BeensResponsibilityGreaterTalentResourcesBlessedImpactOur TimeWorldly Author:John Wooden
“Maxwell's Equations have had a greater impact on human history than any ten presidents.” HumansPresidentGreaterTenImpactEquationsHuman HistoryMaxwell Author:Carl Sagan