Critical Mass Quotes

• When an idea reaches critical mass there is no stopping the shift its presence will induce.

  Marianne Williamson

  Love, Forgiveness, Peace

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• There will be certain points of time when everything collides together and reaches critical mass around a new concept or a new thing that ends up being hugely relevant to a high percentage of people or businesses. But it's really really hard to predict those. I don't believe anyone can.

  Marc Andreessen

  Believe, People, Together

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• Fulfilling the four needs in an integrated way is like combining elements in chemistry. When we reach a "critical mass" of integration, we experience spontaneous combustion - an explosion of inner synergy that ignites the fire within and gives vision, passion, and a spirit of adventure to life.

  Stephen Covey

  Spiritual, Passion, Adventure

  "First Things First".

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• I actually don't think it matters how early or late you are as long as you hit critical mass.

  Drew Houston

  Thinking, Long, Matter

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• When the size of the group supporting your cause reaches a critical mass, any legislator or elected official has to pay attention.

  Mark Shields

  Sea, Causes, Size

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• Politicians would only move beyond gestures once there was a critical mass of informed citizens.

  Paul Collier

  Moving, Citizens, Gestures

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• Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world all at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world that is within our reach. Any small, calm thing that one soul can do to help another soul, to assist some portion of this poor suffering world, will help immensely. It is not given to us to know which acts or by whom, will cause the critical mass to tip toward an enduring good.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Soul, Tasks, World

  "You Were Made For This" by Clarissa Pinkola Estes, www.awakin.org. January 28, 2008.

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• Retailing is a unique destination. What you need is stronger critical mass.

  John Simon

  Unique, Stronger, Needs

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• When enough electrons within an atom get aligned and a critical mass is reached - as soon as you hit that hundredth monkey, as soon as you hit the one - you have phase transition, and all the rest of the electrons automatically make the change. My mission - what I teach and what I believe in - is that you just get yourself aligned with God-consciousness. If we teach enough people to do it - if enough of us ultimately get there - then we'll start electing leaders with this kind of consciousness. We'll start seeing kinds of shifts taking their place.

  Wayne Dyer

  Believe, People, Leader

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• I won't live to see the death-with-dignity movement reach critical mass, but I call on you to carry it forward.

  Brittany Maynard

  Movement, Dignity, Mass

  "Brittany Maynard: A Tragedy, But Not a Controversy" by Margie Omero, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 31, 2014.

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• I have always felt that perhaps women have sometimes almost embraced the same values as men, and the same character as men, because they are in the men's world, and they are trying to fit into a system that men have created. And maybe in truth when there is a critical mass of women who play that role in governments, then we will see whether women can really manage power in a way that is less destructive than the way that men have used power.

  Wangari Maathai

  Character, Men, Play

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Success in TV-showmaking is just a matter of being authentic and doing the best you can, and you hope that people watch it and like it. For us [showmakers], we know where our bread is buttered, and we live by the written word of the critic. That's how shows build a critical mass on cable.

  Walton Goggins

  People, Matter, Bread

  Source: collider.com

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• English language is the most universal language in history, way more than the Latin of Julius Caesar. Its the most punderful language because its vocabulary has a certain critical mass that makes a lingo good for punning.

  Richard Lederer

  Latin, Vocabulary, Way

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• The Lake of Dreams grew gradually, over many years, elements and ideas accruing until they gained enough critical mass to become a novel.

  Kim Edwards

  Dream, Lakes, Years

  "Kim Edwards Talks about The Lake of Dreams". Interview with Jennifer Haupt, www.psychologytoday.com. February 20, 2011.

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• I don't know if the books are making the world a much better place. I don't write with that objective. What I know is that I see my readers creating a critical mass so we can at least understand this world in a different way.

  Paulo Coelho

  Book, Writing, Creating

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• It's people wanting to do something about global climate change. People fed up with the high price of gas. People tired of breathing dirty air. In Houston, Los Angeles, Bakersfield, and other cities. It's going to be a critical mass of people experiencing something.

  Ed Begley, Jr.

  Dirty, Tired, Air

  "Power Q&A: Ed Begley Jr". Interview with Jennifer Vogel, www.motherjones.com. April 21, 2008.

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• Unless you're willing to fight and refight the same battles until you go blue in the face, drive the people you work with nuts going over every detail to make certain you've got it right, and then take hit after unfair hit accusing you of bias, there's no use even trying. You have to love it, and I do. You just hope it strikes a spark somewhere in the critical mass of public opinion and helps some people to resist further the seductions of political and corporate advertising.

  Bill Moyers

  Fighting, Nuts, Blue

  Source: progressive.org

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• I don't have to convince everybody in the room. I just need a critical mass of the people in the room.

  Simon Sinek

  People, Needs, Rooms

  Source: advisor.tv

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• Too often we forget that social and political movements don't happen overnight. They don't bring change immediately - you have to build a critical mass of understanding of the issues.

  Edward Snowden

  Issues, Political, Understanding

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• What usually happens is that when I'm nearing the end of one novel a vague idea about what I want to do next begins to present itself to me in terms of theme. And I would say over about the next six to eight months, usually as I'm out power walking in the morning, or when I'm cooking at night, or when I'm driving in the car, the people who might embody those themes take on a sharper and sharper focus. And there comes this sort of critical mass moment when they actually start to do things in my head.

  Anna Quindlen

  Morning, Night, Ideas

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• The sense of endings as well as beginnings in the air is now so obvious in so many dimensions of our experience that a critical mass has been reached.

  Marianne Williamson

  Air, Dimensions, Mass

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• Every time I feel that I really hit critical mass and I'm in the right place is when I feel like the director and I become a third thing, and that's the character.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Character, Directors, Mass

  "DUE DATE Press Conference with Robert Downey Jr., Zach Galifianakis, Director Todd Phillips and Michelle Monaghan". collider.com. November 2, 2010.

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• I would speculate that a critical mass of the population has to internalize a middle class outlook first. International aid experience has demonstrated many times that just building railroads doesn't get you there. You need people ready to sue them.

  Charles R. Morris

  Class, People, Population

  Interview with Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. December 17, 2012.

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• What we want to do is raise the bare minimum amount that will give us a large enough microphone to effectively convey our message. Unfortunately, $20 million is critical mass in terms of running an effective campaign in New York.

  David Brenner

  Running, New York, Giving

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• Historically, very few discoveries were made out of thin air. Most of the greatest insights depended upon the intellectual ecology in which the scientists lived. A certain critical mass of "new findings" occurred, and bright people all over the world found out about it, and several read the tea leaves the same way.

  John Medina

  Air, Discovery, Tea Leaves

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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