Making A Difference Quotes - Page 9

• A difference is a difference only if it makes a difference.

  Darrell Huff

  Differences, Ifs

  Darrell Huff (2010). “How to Lie with Statistics”, p.60, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Happiness is good, but well-overrated: what we hate most are the very motivators that put us in gear. A man drifts along with little to contribute until something agitates him enough to make a difference, whether for himself or for his communities.

  Criss Jami

  Hate, Men, Differences

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.113, Criss Jami

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• I think - you know, I'm a guy that - I don't live on the earth just to walk it. I live on here to make a difference.

  Tracy McGrady

  Thinking, Differences, Guy

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• It obviously makes a difference whether we consider ourselves as pawns in a game whose rules we call reality or as players of the game who know that the rules are ‘real’ only to the extent that we have created or accepted them, and that we can change them.

  Paul Watzlawick

  Real, Player, Games

  Giorgio Nardone, Paul Watzlawick (1993). “The art of change: strategic therapy and hypnotherapy without trance”, Jossey-Bass

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• Canada is big enough to make a difference but not big enough to threaten anybody. And that is a huge asset if it's properly used.

  Stephen Harper

  Differences, Canada, Enough

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• I don't see how you can grow as a world without being able to get along with people. So many people is hating out there and it's not making a difference.

  Rodney King

  Hate, Differences, People

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If there is anything serious enough to make a difference in my ife, I will talk about it.

  Anushka Sharma

  Differences, Serious, Enough

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• Environmentalism isn't a discipline or specialty. It's a way of seeing our place in the world. And we need everybody to see the world that way. Don't think 'In order to make a difference I have to become an environmentalist.'

  David Suzuki

  Thinking, Order, Differences

  "David Suzuki and his daughter, Severn, in town to talk of adventures and activism". The Star Interview, www.thestar.com. February 25, 2013.

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• Today enormous effort goes into convincing the American public that we're just consumers of media manipulation and sound-bites and spin doctors. That we care only about ourselves, money, and stuff. That acting out of passion and conviction doesn't make a difference. But all history shows that it does.

  Bernardine Dohrn

  Passion, Media, Differences

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• I love writing songs. I love doing my radio show and talking to the fans and listening to what they have to say, but there's a certain responsibility that comes along with being given the gift of music. I take that seriously, but at the same time I try to use it to do something that makes a difference in a positive way.

  Randy Owen

  Song, Writing, Responsibility

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• As long as God lets me live, I want to do things that make a difference in the world besides play music.

  Randy Owen

  Play, Differences, Long

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• Sometimes change comes not in the first round, but at the second, third or fourth. Change starts with one person questioning, challenging, speaking up and doing something to make a difference. We can each make a difference...because each of us is already part of the community where racism exists & thrives.

  Paul Kivel

  Differences, Speaking Up, Racism

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• In every single job, in every single business, in every single profession - in whatever you do - there can be the satisfaction and the happiness that comes from knowing that what you do is important, that what you do makes a difference in the lives of the people you serve.

  Wayne D. Dosick

  Jobs, Work, Differences

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• Thoughtful people are concerned with the future because that is the only area of experience about which anything can be done. We cannot change the past, and the present is gone as soon as it is reported, but the future is that in which we can make a difference.

  D. Elton Trueblood

  Future, Thoughtful, Past

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• The world is full of what seem like intractable problems. Often we let that paralyze us. Instead, let is spur you to action. There are some people in the world that we can't help, but there are so many more that we can. So when you see a mother and her children suffering in another part of the world, don't look away. Look right at them. Let them break your heart, then let your empathy and your talents help you make a difference in the lives of others. Whether you volunteer every week or just a few times a year, your time and unique skills are invaluable.

  Melinda Gates

  Mother, Children, Heart

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• Essentially, whoever is successful, whoever is going to do things that make a difference, is going to be talked about.

  Mukesh Ambani

  Successful, Differences

  "I think we changed the whole business ethos in India: Mukesh Ambani". Interview with Sudeep Chakravarti, indiatoday.intoday.in. June 30, 1993.

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• I wanted to be sure that my donation did two things: went directly into the hands of hurricane victims and that it was an amount that could really impact their lives and make a difference.

  Dr. Dre

  Impact, Hands, Two

  "For the record: quick news on Nick and Jessica, Dr.Dre, Green Day, Ashanti, Pitbull, Wyclef Jean & more". www.mtv.com. October 5, 2005.

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• Anyone can be a teacher or professor, but not everyone can influence you to strive for excellence and make a difference in the world around you.

  Curtis White

  Teacher, Differences, Excellence

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• One
  person can make a difference. You don't have to be a big shot. You
  don't have to have a lot of influence. You just have to have faith in
  your power to change things.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Differences, Have Faith, Influence

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• We have never worried about numbers. In the marketplace, Apple is trying to focus the spotlight on products, because products really make a difference. You can't con people in this business. The products speak for themselves.

  Steve Jobs

  Apples, Numbers, People

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• I believe that you and I - and everyone we'll ever meet - has the inborn capacity to be heroic, to take daring, courageous, and noble steps to make life better for others, even when in the short term it seems to be at our own expense. The capacity to do the right thing, to dare to take a stand and make a difference, is within you now.

  Tony Robbins

  Motivational, Believe, Differences

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.569, Simon and Schuster

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• As a population, if a large number of people make even small moves to eat less meat and more plant-based foods, the livestock industry will shrink. Over time, farmers will find other crops to support their livelihoods. Through such collective awakening we can make a difference in our world.

  Nhat Hanh

  Motivational, Moving, Differences

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• The television reports gave me my first inkling of a world beyond my own, a world that wasn't fair or equal, a world of poverty, war, disease and famine. But I also realized that this state of affairs wasn't necessarily a given, and that we have it in our power to make a difference, to make the world a better place for all. We have that choice. One thing's for sure, though - if we do nothing, it will be a given.

  Chrissie Wellington

  Motivational, War, Differences

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• What makes a difference is when we take our mind and put it into the scriptures, when we read the Buddhist Canon, the Pali Canon, when we read the Tibetan books, when we read anything inspiring - somebody else's journey into the world of enlightenment.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Book, Journey

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• I discovered that people are not really afraid of dying; they're afraid of not ever having lived, not ever having deeply considered their life's higher purpose, and not ever having stepped into that purpose and at least tried to make a difference in this world.

  Joseph Jaworski

  Motivational, Differences, People

  Joseph Jaworski (2011). “Synchronicity: The Inner Path of Leadership”, p.34, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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