Making A Difference quotes
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"When you walk around braced for impact, you're dramatically decreasing your chances. Your chances to avoid the outcome you fear, your chances to make a difference, and your chances to breathe and connect."
"We’ve been trained to prefer being right to learning something, to prefer passing the test to making a difference, and most of all, to prefer fitting in with the right people, the people with economic power. Now it’s your turn to stand up and stand out."
"If you've got the platform and the ability to make a difference, then this goes beyond 'should' and reaches the level of 'must.' You must make a difference or you squander the opportunity. Wasting the opportunity both degrades your own ability to contribute and, more urgently, takes something away from the rest of us."
"The world doesn't owe you a living, but just when you needed it, a door was opened for you to make a difference."
"You need to feel that you're making a difference."
"We do make a difference - one way or the other. We are responsible for the impact of our lives. Whatever we do with whatever we have, we leave behind us a legacy for those who follow."
"No one can force you to stand up, speak up and make a difference. But if you back off and play along, please understand that whatever happens happened, at least in part, because you acquiesced."
"The good news is that more than ever, value accrues to those that show up, those that make a difference, those that do work that matters."
"I can be vilified. I can be misunderstood. I didn't come here to be liked. I came here to make a difference."
"People have power to make a difference in their lives."
"Every individual can make a difference every day by making conscious choices."
"I really have to feel that I could make a difference in the movie, or I shouldn't be doing it."
"You've met Nick?" "Yep, we've met, all right. He was kind enough to inform me that I have absolutely no say in whether you two date." "Well, you don't." "You know, you all could at least pretend that my opinion makes a difference."
"To make a difference is not a matter of accident...People CHOOSE to make a difference."
"Let's not just make noise, let's make a difference."
"I think we can make a difference in the lives of the poor, and the millions."
