Enormous Quotes - Page 9

• Down cycles are not fun. But they form the basis for enormous future profitability

  Stephen A. Schwarzman

  Fun, Form, Bases

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• For all its enormous range of space, climate, and physical appearance, and for all the internal squabbles, contentions, and strivings, what you northerners never appreciate...is that Texas is so big that you can live your life within its limits and never give a damn about what anyone in Boston or San Francisco thinks.

  James A. Michener

  Thinking, Texas, Boston

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• Leaders who keep promises and followers who respond in kind create an opportunity generate enormous energy around their commitment to serve others.

  Max De Pree

  Commitment, Opportunity, Leader

  Max De Pree (1997). “Leading Without Power: Finding Hope in Serving Community”, Jossey-Bass

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• The fact that the infrastructure is falling apart is not necessarily because it's built poorly. The New York City subways were built in 1903. The fact that they're still running at all is an enormous success. The fact that New York City's bridges have held up as long as they have is extraordinary, and the engineers didn't have computers to tell them about tolerance. They overbuilt these things - traffic on them is like an ant on an elephant.

  Alan Weisman

  Running, New York, Fall

  Source: www.today.com

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• Civil disobedience can help to focus attention on a particular injustice. It was used historically to highlight wrongs in society - turning ancient redwood forests into paper towels or preventing people from sitting down at lunch counters because of the color of their skin. On climate change, we have not seen strong leadership coming from Washington, DC.In particular the president has an enormous opportunity to follow up on his inaugural speech with a concerted course of action to aggressively take on a clean energy transition.

  Michael Brune

  Strong, Opportunity, Color

  "Sierra Club Turns to Civil Disobedience to Stop Keystone Pipeline". Interview with Kate Sheppard, www.motherjones.com. January 25, 2013.

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• There's an enormous amount of corruption, and as one American adviser put it to me, "The police in Afghanistan are thugs. We equip them, we train them, and now they are equipped and trained thugs."

  Jeff Merkley

  Thug, Police, Corruption

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• You enrich people with creative resources, and over time, these Lego bricks that end up in their heads eventually build this enormous, incredible castle.

  Maria Popova

  People, Creative, Castles

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Every time someone reads a story about the politics poisoning the global warming stuff it makes it feel like a political story, meaning it's Us and Them, instead of what it is: this profound challenge we face given our energy norms right now, the fuels of convenience toward something new. No matter what the politics are, it's still an enormous transformation that has to take place.

  Andrew Revkin

  Profound, Political, Challenges

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I firmly believe that the inequity [in society] is enormous. The people have the feeling that you are allowed to do anything if you are rich. But if you're poor, you have to pay. We [Europeans] have to counter this.

  Martin Schulz

  Believe, People, Feelings

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• If you look more broadly at injury, so it includes also accidents, it's the largest cause of death in children of school age in Mexico. It's an enormous problem.

  Julio Frenk

  Children, School, Age

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Enormous forces are affecting the world, and we can't possibly overestimate their importance. These include demographic developments, climate change, digitalization and the rise of Asia. And then there's the most important one: the end of a life lived on credit. We must finally free ourselves from debt.

  Paul Achleitner

  Important, World, Asia

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Stop at nothing to get the best work that you can get. Betray, violate, cause enormous harm.

  Joe Frank

  Causes, Harm, Best Work

  Interview with Jonathan Goldstein, believermag.com. March 1, 2013.

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• We're dealing with such enormous problems today that we have no other choice but to work together. If Iraq fails, if a religious civil war breaks out and the neighboring states are drawn into this conflict, if the Kurds declare independence and al-Qaida takes over an entire province - that's when the consequences will be dramatic.

  Zalmay Khalilzad

  Religious, War, Iraq

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I have very simple ambitions. If I can just not be boring, I'm ahead of the game. It's hard in television. I think you get enormous reward from the audience. Just give them something they didn't see coming, and you get enormous points.

  David Nevins

  Ambition, Simple, Thinking

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• There was this enormous burst of sculptural creative juice in the nineteenth century, and all that stuff is just so decorative. Even in pieces cast from a mold, you get a more sensuous, handmade, individual sense from it.

  Hugh Hardy

  Creative Juices, Mold, Pieces

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• .....science-based popular education can have an enormous impact on politics.

  Carl Phillips

  Impact, Popular Education

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• Intellectual effort gives me enormous pleasure

  Vladimir Kramnik

  Giving, Effort, Intellectual

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• No one can take Jesus away from me.... There's no doubt there was a historical figure of tremendous importance, with enormous notions. Such as peace.

  Peter O'Toole

  Jesus, Historical, Doubt

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• We need to reverse three centuries of walling the for-profit and non-profit sectors off from one another. When you think for-profit and non-profit, you most often think of entities with either zero social return or zero return on capital and zero social return. Clearly, there's some opportunity in the spectrum between those extremes. What's missing is the for-profit finance industry coming in to that area. Look at the enormous diversity of the for-profit financial industry as opposed to monolithic nature of the non-profit world; it's quite astonishing.

  Bill Drayton

  Zero, Opportunity, Thinking

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• A picture book is a small door to the enormous world of the visual arts, and they're often the first art a young person sees.

  Tomie dePaola

  Art, Book, Doors

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• With problems and issues groups face- there is an enormous disconnect between understanding and doing.

  Marshall Goldsmith

  Issues, Understanding, Groups

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• If through practice of insight you develop a sense of ease, then time has no relevance. If you're miserable, time does matter. It's so unbearable, so enormous you want to get out of it as soon as possible.

  Dalai Lama

  Practice, Unbearable, Doe

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• Great success always comes at the risk of enormous failure.

  Winston Churchill

  Risk, Great Success

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• Either the world is so tiny or we are enormous; in either case, we fill it completely.

  Franz Kafka

  World, Tiny, Cases

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• I have had the good fortune of being able to sing with many of the finest voices in the world, and for someone who loves voices as I do, this is an enormous privilege.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Voice, World, Able

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