“I engaged - started engaging in yoga as a physical practice, but very quickly found out there was something broader to it, and that it was actually helpful for my pain, and started to get into meditation, started to study the Upanishads and the Bhagavad Gita and a lot of the scriptures associated with yoga, the Yoga Sutras, and very quickly came to this conclusion that this had a huge impact on my ability to lead, but, more importantly, the ability to control my sympathetic nervous system, which had a direct tie to the pain in my arm.” PainFoundAbilityPracticeStudyMeditationHugeArmsYogaDirectImpactScriptureConclusionNervousTiesEngagedHelpfulEngagingSympatheticNervous SystemGitaYoga Sutra Author:Mark T Bertolini
“While neurological studies have tried to identify components responsible for fear and greed, the impact on finance is less clear.” StudyClearResponsibleImpactGreedFinanceComponentsNeurological Disorders Author:Andrew Lo
“My monetary studies have led me to the conclusion that central banks could profitably be replaced by computers geared to provide a steady rate of growth in the quantity of money. Fortunately for me personally, and for a select group of fellow economists, that conclusion has had no practical impact… else there would have been no Central Bank of Sweden to have established the award [Nobel Prize] I am honoured to receive.” Has BeensStudyComputerImpactPracticalsConclusionPrizeAwardsReplacedHonoredNobelMonetaryNobel PrizeSwedenCentral Banks Author:Milton Friedman
“Moreover, the practical recommendations deduced from ecological principles threaten the vested interests of commerce; it is hardly surprising that the financial and political power created by these investments should be used sometimes to suppress environmental impact studies.” ShouldSometimesPoliticalUsedInterestPrinciplesStudyImpactInvestmentEnvironmentalFinancialPracticalsSurprisingCommerceEcologicalPolitical PowerRecommendationsVested InterestsEnvironmental Impact Book:Naked emperors: essays of a taboo-stalker Source: Naked emperors: essays of a taboo-stalker
“The most reliable way to be certain of their classroom impact is through independent studies conducted by third-party organisations which compare the student growth in our corps members' classrooms to that of other teachers in similar situations.” WayCertainGrowthPartySituationStudyTeacherStudentsMembersThirdsIndependentImpactCompareClassroomOrganisationThird Parties Author:Wendy Kopp
“There are many ways to study Walt Disney, but I think learning about Walt as a leader probably has had the biggest impact on me.” ThinkingWayLeaderStudyImpactWalt Author:Pat Williams
“A variety of national and international studies indicate that the broad-based deployment of information technology can have a substantial impact on our nation's economic productivity and growth as well as the educational and social success of our citizens.” WellsNationsSocialGrowthTechnologyStudyEconomicInformationCitizensImpactInternationalEducationalProductivityVarietyBroadsInformation TechnologyDeploymentInternet Technology Author:Tim Holden
“This crisis of long-term unemployment is having a profoundly damaging impact on the lives of those bearing the brunt of it. We know this thanks to a series of careful studies of the problem conducted in the depths of the 1930s Great Depression.” KnowsLongProblemTermStudyCrisisImpactSeriesDepthCarefulThanksLong TermUnemploymentGreat Depression1930s Author:Bob Ehrlich
“The climate system is constantly readjusting naturally in a large way - more than we would ever see from CO2. The CO2 kick [impact of CO2 emissions] is extremely small compared to what is happening in a natural way. Within the framework of a proper study of the sun-climate connection, you don't need CO2 to explain anything.” WayNeedsNaturalSunStudyHappeningsConnectionsImpactClimateKicksFrameworkEmissionsCo2Co2 Emissions Author:Willie Soon