Tipping Point Quotes - Page 2

• It's part of the reason I decided to speak out now. This was the tipping point for me. If it's O.K. for [David Petraeus ] to campaign for a job in the administration, then I'm going to campaign to get back out there, too.

  Paula Broadwell

  Jobs, Speaks Out, Tipping

  Source: www.vanityfair.com

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• We have to, in the next ten years, begin to decrease the rate of carbon dioxide emissions and then flatten it out. If that doesn't happen in ten years, we're going to be passing certain tipping points. If the ice sheets begin to disintegrate, what can you do about it? You can't tie a rope around an ice sheet.

  James Hansen

  Years, Ice, Ties

  "Maher: Bush Guilty of “Treason” for Putting “Oil Profits” Before Global Warming Proof". www.newsbusters.org. March 25, 2006.

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• When well-qualified, upper middle-class blacks or Latinos or Asians move to predominantly white neighborhoods, there's what's called the tipping point. That tipping point is generally 15 percent; at 15 percent you begin to see white flight.

  Richard Benjamin

  Moving, White, Class

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The iPod is clearly a tipping point (and I'm not quite sure it is a wholly positive development), because it is a revolution in the way that we consume creative property, which I would call art. It has radically changed the relationship between the artist and the audience, how money changes hands, and how much money changes hands. Music was the first, and books are coming next. The Kindle or some form of electronic book is clearly inevitable, and it will massively reshape how books are sold, who pays for them, and how they're consumed. It is going to be really fascinating.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Art, Book, Hands

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• Acquaintances represent a source of social power, and the more acquaintances you have the more powerful you are.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Powerful, Social, Source

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• The world beyond 450 ppm atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide, the world that crosses carbon cycle tipping points that quickly take us to 1000 ppm, is a world not merely of endless regional resource wars around the globe. It is a world with dozens of Darfurs. It is a world of a hundred Katrinas, of countless environmental refugees

  Joseph J. Romm

  War, Carbon Cycle, Environmental

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• The urgency derives from the nearness of climate tipping points.

  James Hansen

  Climate, Tipping, Urgency

  James Hansen (2011). “Storms of My Grandchildren: The Truth about the Coming Climate Catastrophe and Our Last Chance to Save Humanity”, p.4, A&C Black

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• The purest case of an intelligence explosion would be an Artificial Intelligence rewriting its own source code. The key idea is that if you can improve intelligence even a little, the process accelerates. It's a tipping point. Like trying to balance a pen on one end - as soon as it tilts even a little, it quickly falls the rest of the way.

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  Fall, Ideas, Keys

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• It's a chicken-and-egg thing. You could send cards to everyone in San Francisco, but if the merchants don't have the terminals, what's the point? What you need is a cooperative effort with merchants in a metropolitan area to create a tipping point where you can justify advertising and merchants are willing to attempt this new payment system.

  David Robertson

  Eggs, San Francisco, Effort

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• The end of the world was supposed to be gradual. There was supposed to be warning. A long, slow slide. What we got was punctuated equilibrium: a stately wobbling, then a sudden tipping point. There was plenty of warning, I suppose. We just weren’t paying attention.

  Elizabeth Bear

  Long, Attention, Tipping

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• We don't know exactly where all the tipping points are in the physical world for inescapable damage, but we're clearly reaching close to some of them.

  Bill McKibben

  Tipping, World, Damage

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Many say our world is at a tipping point. If we do not act together, if we do not act responsibly, if we do not act now, we risk slipping into a cycle of poverty, degradation, and despair.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Our World, Risk, Together

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• Ideas and products and messages and behaviors spread just like viruses do.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Ideas, Viruses, Messages

  "The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference". Book by Malcolm Gladwell, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2000.

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• Remember it only takes giving love and good feelings a minimum of 51 percent of the tiem to reach the tipping point and change everything.

  Rhonda Byrne

  Inspirational, Giving Love, Feelings

  Rhonda Byrne (2011). “The Power”, p.185, Simon and Schuster

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• Doing the little things can make a big difference.

  Yogi Berra

  Differences, Effort, Tipping

  Yogi Berra (2010). “What Time Is It? You Mean Now?: Advice for Life from the Zennest Master of Them All”, p.70, Simon and Schuster

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• Right now over 70 percent of the world population is convinced that something serious has to be done about the dangers facing the planet. ...Most of humanity wants to know how to make the change. It's one of those tipping-point times where things can change unbelievably fast.

  Paul Ray

  Inspirational, Humanity, Done

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• I think we could be at a tipping point

  Charles Schumer

  Gun, Thinking, Tipping

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• We're seeing the reality of a lot of the North Pole starting to evaporate, and we could get to a tipping point. Because if it evaporates to a certain point - they have lanes now where ships can go that couldn't ever sail through before. And if it gets to a point where it evaporates too much, there's a lot of tundra that's being held down by that ice cap.

  Henry Waxman

  Reality, Ice, Dumb

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• We have, as human beings, a storytelling problem. We're a bit too quick to come up with explanations for things we don't really have an explanation for.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Success, Problem, Storytelling

  "Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking". Book by Malcolm Gladwell, January 11, 2005.

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• There is a simple way to package information that, under the right circumstances, can make it irresistible. All you have to do is find it.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Simple, Information, Way

  "The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference". Book by Malcolm Gladwell, 2000.

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• The pace of global warming is accelerating and the scale of the impact is devastating. The time for action is limited - we are approaching a tipping point beyond which the opportunity to reverse the damage of CO2 emissions will disappear.

  Eliot Spitzer

  Opportunity, Impact, Carbon Emissions

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• To be someone's best friend requires a minimum investment of time. More than that, though, it takes emotional energy. Caring about someone deeply is exhausting.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Success, Caring, Emotional

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• I do genuinely believe that the political system is not linear. When it reaches a tipping point fashioned by a critical mass of opinion, the slow pace of change we're used to will no longer be the norm. I see a lot of signs every day that we're moving closer and closer to that tipping point.

  Al Gore

  Believe, Moving, Political

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• I'm building on purpose. I'm building that tipping point. I'm building that law of diffusion of innovation.

  Simon Sinek

  Law, Innovation, Purpose

  Source: advisor.tv

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• When you are incubating new ideas, "Don't put all your eggs in one basket" is very good advice. But when you are seeking to transform your enterprise's portfolio by scaling a fledgling business to material size - say ten percent of total enterprise revenue - then it is imperative that you make that the singular focus of everyone in the enterprise for the two to three year period it is likely to require to reach its tipping point. Expecting to do two such scaling efforts in parallel is simply folly, yet that is what the "eggs/basket" idea is often used to justify.

  Geoffrey Moore

  Eggs, Ideas, Two

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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