2006-08-05 06:24:08 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
No, it's good to realize now so you can stop trying.
2006-08-05 08:29:39 · answer #1 · answered by -.- 6 · 7⤊ 1⤋
Yes one person can seriously make a difference. Differences don't have to be huge, they can start off small to built upon at a later time. As long as someone is true to themselves and is working to do something positive they can make a difference, even if it's just a difference in their own life or in the life of one other person. It's only when we don't even try that we can fail to make a difference, and even then you're making a difference just not necessarily one for the better.
2006-08-05 13:30:15 · answer #2 · answered by Nico 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe one person absolutely can make a difference. Look at what a difference Mother Teresa made, Martin Luther King Jr., and countless others. The Dhali Llama is such a compassionate person.
It can go both ways (for good AND evil), but I believe one person can definately make a difference.
2006-08-05 13:31:17 · answer #3 · answered by loveblue 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes you can make a difference -- parents do this every day when they raise their children -- when you interact with another person and say "thank you" or "may I help you with that" or anything else that will put a positive note in the person's day. I try to do this each and every day of my life, and know that I won't be able to change anyone's view of the world unless they are willing to do that change for themselves, but I try really hard to make sure that I am as pleasant as possible to every person I meet.
(and believe me -- there are some REAL DIFFICULT People to be pleasant to -- but you just have to know when to walk away from that type of conflict)
2006-08-05 13:44:35 · answer #4 · answered by sglmom 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The human race is made up of "one person"s. Think of what could be if all those "one person"s SERIOUSLY made the effort to make a difference.
2006-08-05 13:41:14 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, but not within a Western-mind, materialistic framework, except if and until the Western world achieves it's awaited consciousness evolution. The Eastern mind is aeons ahead of us in that regard. You make a difference all yourself (tho not "by yourself") when you realize you're not a drop in the bucket but part of the One true reality: that we're all One and what happens to one happens to all, at least in terms of spirituality (not in terms of religion as traditionally understood) and spirituality determines everything. We just can't see the connections with the eyes of the objective body. But they're there to be experinced in our inner and collective self, if we learn how to access that level of reality.
2006-08-05 13:48:22 · answer #6 · answered by Archetypal 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Moses did. Jesus did. Ghandi did. Hitler did. Mother Tereasa did. Osama Ben Laden did. George Bush has (... not a good difference either.) Pope John Paul II did. J.P. Rollings did. Einstein did. Walt Disney did .......
Want me to move on to Inventors? List could be quite long.
Then Scientists?
2006-08-05 13:33:12 · answer #7 · answered by pickle head 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I like what Mother Teresa used to say-- to paraphrase: make a difference in one life at a time. You cannot change the whole world, but you can change one person's world.
2006-08-05 13:28:35 · answer #8 · answered by Lisa the Pooh 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes.
Jesus of Nazareth - New Era. Forgiveness and love rather than revenge/repercussion
Albert Einstein - Theory Of Relativity
Nicolai Tesla - Electricity (AC)
2006-08-05 15:32:16 · answer #9 · answered by JR P 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, but everyone needs help from other people. One person can be the Initiator and others will follow, history is proof.
2006-08-05 13:28:05 · answer #10 · answered by udontknowmyname 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes
2006-08-05 18:16:47 · answer #11 · answered by zephyrescent 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋