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“As each of us awakens, it impacts human consciousness at a collective level. It is like dropping a tiny pebble of light into a dark pool of unconsciousness . Ripples of light!”

Humans Light Dark Levels Consciousness Impact Tiny Collectives Pool Dropping Ripple Pebbles Human Consciousness Unconsciousness

Author:Leonard Jacobson

“A CEO's behavior has a huge impact on managers down the line.”

Lines Huge Behavior Impact Managers Ceo

Author:Warren Buffett

“The only way change will ever happen is if we speak up, and we have to know that it actually has an impact. Because we have a lot more power than we think we do, I think.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Way Happens Speak Impact

Author:Josh Brolin

“John Hughes had such a huge impact on filmmaking.”

Actors Huge Impact Movie Filmmaking

Author:Molly Ringwald

“Tibetan Buddhism had an enormous impact on me.”

Buddhism Impact Enormous Tibetan Tibetan Buddhism

Author:Richard Gere

“You have to be different to make a difference. You cannot change anything by adding more of the same. The greatest spiritual impact is made upon people by someone who is different from them. Others must see someone like Christ in us –- not someone like the rest of the world –- if we are to have any godly influence on them.”

People Ifs World Made Different Spiritual Christ Differences Influence Impact Making A Difference Godly

Author:Jim Berg

“Ordinary faithfulness leads to extraordinary impact.”

Ordinary Impact Extraordinary Faithfulness

Author:Matthew Barnett

“The first and most important impact of climate change on human civilisation will be an acute and permanent crisis of food supply. Eating regularly is a non-negotiable activity and countries that cannot feed their people are unlikely to be reasonable about it.”

People Firsts Humans Important Country Politics Activity Eating Crisis Impact Climate Climate Change Permanent Reasonable Unlikely Civilisation Food Supply

Book:Climate Wars: The Fight for Survival as the World Overheats

Source: Climate Wars: The Fight for Survival as the World Overheats

“The question is the morning after. What sort of Iraq do we wake up to after the bombing? What happens in the region? What impact could it have? These are questions leaders I have spoken to have posed.”

Happens Leader Morning Wake Up Impact Iraq Regions Bombing Morning After

Author:Kofi Annan

“We have spent the best part of the past century enthusiastically testing the world to utter destruction; not looking closely enough at the long-term impact our actions will have.”

World Long Enough Action Past Science Term Century Destruction Impact Long Term Testing Our Actions

Author:Prince Charles

“Charles Kernaghan is a legitimate American hero... Through his determination he has forced the leadership in our country and many other countries around the world to pay attention. Kernaghan has done more to expose child labor than has the whole Department of Labor that has a budget of hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars, because he has the guts and determination to do it.”

“In some ways, [the student anti-sweatshop movement] is like the anti-apartheid movement, except that in this case its striking at the core of the relations of exploitation. Much of this was initiated by Charlie Kernaghan of the Institute for Global Labour and Human Rights.”

Way Humans Cases Rights Movement Students Relation Impact Human Rights Core Labour Exploitation Charlie Institute Apartheid Sweatshops

Author:Noam Chomsky

“Because of GLHR's crusades... we're beginning to learn the awful truth about workers around the world who are slaving away their lives in sweatshops, who are denied the right to join or form a union in order to fight back and provide a better life for their families.”

World Form Order Fighting Impact Unions Workers Awful Around The World Denied Better Life Crusades Sweatshops

Author:John Sweeney

“GLHR... has used Greenpeace-style media antics to draw more public attention to the plight of sweatshop workers than the multimillion - dollar international trade union movement has achieved in almost a century.”

Used Attention Century Media Style Movement Draws Trade Impact Dollars Unions Workers International Plight Trade Unions Antics International Trade Sweatshops Greenpeace

Author:Naomi Klein

“In the struggle for the rights of the poor in Central America and other places where globalization is bringing its negative effects, there is no organization more effective than the Institute for Global Labour and Human Rights.”

Humans America Poor Struggle Rights Effects Negative Organization Impact Human Rights Labour Globalization Institute Central America

Author:Thomas Gumbleton

“The Upton Sinclair of today's global economy is Charles Kernaghan, the New York based muckraker most famous for his expose of sweatshops producing the Kathie Lee Gifford line of clothing for Wal-Mart.... The Institute for Global Labour and Human Rights... has been a leader in exposing sweatshops, mounting corporate campaigns, and fighting for the rights of vulnerable workers.”

“The Institute for Global Labour and Human Rights... have pressured retailers on campus and off to publicly disclose the factory names and addresses.”

Humans Names Rights Impact Human Rights Addresses Labour Factories Institute Campus And Off Pressured Retailers

Author:Ralph Nader

“... the long-lasting humanitarian impact of these inhuman weapons continues to deny communities the opportunity to rebuild long after the end of the conflicts.”

Long Ends Opportunity Community Conflict Weapons Impact Deny Humanitarian Lasting Inhuman Long Lasting Landmines

Author:Kofi Annan

“Gender equality, historically has been predominantly a women's movement for women. But I think the impact of gender inequality and how it's affecting men hasn't really been addressed.”

Thinking Men Has Beens Inspiring Movement Impact Gender Inequality Gender Equality Gender Inequality

Author:Emma Watson

“Recognizing and preventing men's health problems is not just a man's issue. Because of its impact on wives, mothers, daughters, and sisters, men's health is truly a family issue.”

Men Problem Mother Issues Wife Daughter Impact Recognizing Preventing Mother Daughter Health Problems Family Issues Wife Mother

Author:Bill Richardson

“It's not those who write the laws that have the greatest impact on society. It's those who write the songs.”

Writing Law Song Impact Impact On Society

Author:Blaise Pascal

“Unlike Washington, which is stuck in ideological gridlock, Americans feel the impact of climate change in their own hometowns and they know something must be done.”

Knows Feels Done Change Impact Climate Climate Change Stuck Ideological Hometown Gridlock

Author:John F. Kerry

“The impact of all these restrictions is on poor women, because women who have means, if their state doesn't provide access, another state does. ... It makes no sense as a national policy to promote birth only among poor people.”

People Ifs Mean Doe States Poor Policy Birth Impact Access Poor People Restriction Eugenics

Author:Ruth Bader Ginsburg

“Take the time to discover how African-Americans have had a great impact on this country. In science, education, literature, art, and politics.”

Art Country Literature Sports Education Impact African American Science Education

Author:Lynn Swann

“The fear of making a decision is the result of fearing to make a mistake - the truth is, the fear of mistakes has a greater impact on you than making the mistakes.”

Decision Results Mistake Greater Truth Is Impact Fear Of Failure

Author:Bob Proctor

“Agressive music can only shock you once. Afterwards its impact declines. It's inevitable.”

Impact Inevitable Shock Decline Agressive

Author:Brian Eno

“In roughly the last century, important experiments have been launched by such charismatic educators as Maria Montessori, Rudolf Steiner, Shinichi Suzuki, John Dewey, and A. S. Neil. These approaches have enjoyed considerable success[...] Yet they have had relatively little impact on the mainstream of education throughout the contemporary world.”

World Littles Has Beens Important Lasts Education Century Approach Impact Experiments Contemporary Enjoyed Mainstream Educator Charismatic Montessori

Author:Howard Gardner

“I think Karl Rove saw that in George W. Bush early on and understood the impact that he could have on Texas politics and probably on national politics.”

Thinking Saws Understood Impact Texas Hairstyles

Author:Ed Gillespie

“Some major writers have a huge impact, like Ayn Rand, who to my mind is a lousy fiction writer because her writing has no compassion and virtually no humor. She has a philosophical and economical message that she is passing off as fiction, but it really isn't fiction at all.”

Writing Mind Humor Fiction Compassion Huge Majors Messages Philosophical Impact Passing Passings Fiction Writers No Compassion

Author:Theodore Sturgeon

“Scientific men can hardly escape the charge of ignorance with regard to the precise effect of the impact of modern science upon the mode of living of the people and upon their civilisation.”

People Men Science Modern Effects Ignorance Regard Impact Precise Civilisation Modern Science

Author:Frederick Soddy

“If I stayed a football player, my career would have been over 20 years ago. As it is, my knees are shot. I found I got the same good feeling in acting that I had in sports, but I found I could have a more profound impact on people.”

People Ifs Years Has Beens Feelings Found Sports Acting Careers Player Football Shots Years Ago Impact Profound Knees Football Player Good Feeling

Author:William Petersen

“Since fantasy isn't about technology, the accelleration has no impact at all. But it's changed the lives of fantasy writers and editors. I get to live in England and work for a New York publisher!”

Technology Fantasy New York Changed England Impact Editors Publishers

Author:Terri Windling

“There has been a huge advance in technology, which has improved the safety of the cars incredibly, but there are still some heavy crash impacts and in certain circumstances there is still the chance of fire today.”

Has Beens Stills Today Certain Chance Technology Fire Car Huge Circumstances Safety Impact Heavy Crash

Author:Jackie Stewart

“I really believe that's one of the many reasons that God had put me right in the middle of the Backstreet Boys. There are so many stars today that don't realize the impact they have on young people. Being a superstar is great, as long as you can be a positive role model.”

People Believe Long Reason Today Young Stars Realizing Boys Roles Middle Models Impact Role Models Superstar Backstreet Backstreet Boys Super Star Positive Role Model

Author:Brian Littrell

“Being innovative in your philantropy allows you to stride forward in your giving journey; you can marry your mind and heart to turn charity into lasting impact; and you can become more ambitious in your giving.”

Giving Mind Heart Turns Journey Impact Charity Lasting Ambitious Philanthropy Heart And Mind Innovative Stride Philanthropy Giving Lasting Impact

Author:Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

“The output is far from smooth, and the impact on dispatchable plant required to deal with residual demand is highly significant. Our view is that plant operating under these conditions in the support role for wind will suffer: 1) reduced availability, 2) significantly reduced efficiency, and thus 3) higher emissions per MWh generated.”

Suffering Views Deals Roles Support Conditions Wind Higher Demand Impact Plant Significant Efficiency Smooth Emissions Output Availability Residual

Author:John Constable

“He felt the hot impact of bullets. He heard the sound of chopping meat. He thought 'is that me?' . . . and then he opened his eyes.”

Eye Felt Sound Heard Hot Impact Meat His Eyes Bullets Chopping

Author:Grant Morrison

“The obsession with performance left no room for the development of the intuitive or spiritual impact of space and form other than the aesthetic of the machine itself.”

Spiritual Form Left Space Rooms Development Machines Performances Impact Obsession Aesthetic Intuitive

Author:Arthur Erickson

“Using the risk-based approach presented by the ISPE Guide (i.e., system and component level classification) limited qualification activities to verifying and testing critical aspects of direct impact systems and their critical components.”

Levels Risk Activity Approach Aspect Direct Impact Critical Guides Testing Components Qualifications Classification Pharmaceutical

Author:Robert A. Young

“We vote - if the public votes 50 percent, we vote 70 percent. So we have a bigger impact with our numbers, and the organization and the manpower we can bring to a race.”

Ifs Numbers Race Percent Vote Organization Bigger Impact Manpower

Author:James P. Hoffa

“As you give God your time, your gifts, your resources and talents, He will use them to have a critically important and eternal impact on this world.”

World Giving Important God Use Christian Talent This World Eternal Resources Impact

Author:Christine Caine

“My writing isn't actually guided by issues. I know it seems that way, but I don't sit down and think, Oh, there's this issue I'm bothered about. I only write about things that directly impact my life. When I write, there's a pain that I have to reach, and a release I have to work toward for myself. So it's really a question of the particular emotional circumstance that I want to express, a character that appears, a moment in time, and then I write the play backwards.”

Thinking Knows Way Want Writing Play Moments Character Seems Pain Issues Emotional Particular Circumstances Down And Impact Crafts Release Backwards Bothered Moments In Time

Author:Paula Vogel

“We measure areas of performance that are often ignored: jumping in pursuit of every rebound even if you don't get it, swatting at every pass, diving for loose balls, letting someone smash into you in order to draw the foul. These 'effort' statistics are also stored on computer. Effort is what ultimately separates journeyman players from impact players. Knowing how well a player executes all these little things is the key to unlocking career-best performances.”

“I've had many mentors, but the one that has the most impact was my mother.”

Mother Impact Mentor

Author:Ursula Burns

“Your ability to select your most important task at each moment, and then to get started on that task and to get it done both quickly and well, will probably have more of an impact on your success than any other quality or skill you can develop.”

Wells Important Done Moments Ability Quality Skills Tasks Impact Priorities Select Get It Done

Book:Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time

Source: Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time

“You can have an impact anywhere you are.”

Impact

Author:Tony Dungy

“We are all role models to someone in this world, and we can all have an impact - for good.”

World Roles This World Models Impact Role Models

Book:Quiet Strength: A Memoir

Source: Quiet Strength: A Memoir

“You don't have to be a rocket scientist to prove that cutting incomes to the poorest families will have a negative impact on kids. That is less money for the basics like food, health and clothes.”

Kids Cutting Prove Clothes Negative Scientist Impact Income Rockets Poorest Basics

Author:Metiria Turei

“Churches that make an impact are more focused on putting boots on the streets than butts in the seats”

Church Streets Impact Focused Seats Boots

Author:Miles McPherson

“The decisions we make in Washington have a direct impact on the people in our country, obviously.”

People Country Decision Direct Impact Our Country Decisions We Make

Book:Public paper of the presidents of the United States

Source: Public paper of the presidents of the United States

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