Tipping Quotes - Page 4

• A tipping point is invisible, as we just saw in Greece. In most situations, everything appears fine until it's not fine, until, for example, no one shows up at a Treasury auction.

  Seth Klarman

  Example, Auctions, Saws

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• Therapy is often a matter of tipping the first domino.

  Milton H. Erickson

  Matter, Firsts, Therapy

  Milton H. Erickson (1992). “The Wisdom of Milton H. Erickson: Human Behavior and Psychotherapy”, p.128, Ardent Media

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• It's not tipping I believe in. It's overtipping.

  Steve Martin

  Believe, I Believe, I Believe In

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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

  World, Damage, Reaching

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I stand on the shoulders of giants that have gone before me, in terms of affording people like myself, women, the access to democracy, the vote, medical treatment, education, everything that I've been given. It's all been earned. Therefore I feel it's incumbent on me personally to just contribute something, to add to a collective voice that needs to be here right now, to build it up to a tipping point, to make the world aware that women's rights still have to be addressed and that the word 'feminism' has been devalued and needs to be reclaimed.

  Annie Lennox

  Voice, Rights, People

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• When it comes to e-book playback devices and software, I have always thought that the emphasis on ergonomic concerns as a tipping point for the end-user population was misplaced.

  Tom Peters

  Book, Population, Ends

  Source: www.researchgate.net

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• Have you ever noticed that the waiter who takes your order is not the one who brings your food anymore? What is THAT about? And which waiter are you tipping, anyway? I think next time I go to a restaurant I'll just say, "Oh, sorry, I only eat the food. The guy who pays the bill will be along shortly."

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Sorry, Thinking, Order

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• Again, it does seem like frustration is mounting in interesting ways, but I'm not sure there will be some dramatic tipping point. Then again, looking back on the history of television, you never know. People had to fight and articulate the politics and the rationale for different funding mechanisms. That was a long and drawn-out battle fought in different countries; it's not like BBC and the CBC in Canada just magically appeared out of the ether. People had to organize for it. I'm always willing to be surprised.

  Astra Taylor

  Country, Fighting, Frustration

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It's the people who work hard and earn big that keep the machine tipping for everybody else. If everybody else was equal down the bottom rung of a ladder, nobody would be on the ladder at all because it would break and everybody would fall off backwards. So you need people at the top to help pull those people up from the bottom. You can't take that and swing to the right. You can't have everybody living in the same ordinary $60,000 house because you may as well live in Russia, Bulgaria or some other Eastern block Communist nation.

  Robin Leach

  Block, Fall, Hard Work

  Source: www.cyinterview.com

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• I remember talking to, 40 years ago, one of the leading people in the government who was involved in arms control, pressing for arms control measures, détente, and so on. He's very high up, and we were talking about whether arms control could succeed. And only partially as a joke he said, "Well it might succeed if the high tech industry makes more profit from arms control than it can make from weapons-related research and production. If we get to that tipping point maybe arms control will work." He was partially joking but there's a truth that lies behind it.

  Noam Chomsky

  Lying, Government, Talking

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Scientists are telling us that 350 parts per million [of carbon] in the atmosphere is the upper limit. We're at 387 parts per million now, and we're up in that zone where the risk of going past irrevocable tipping points is elevated. It's no different than going to a doctor and learning your cholesterol is too high, and you're at risk for a heart attack. You have to work to lower your cholesterol and hope to get there before the heart attack comes.

  Bill McKibben

  Heart, Past, Doctors

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• I always get involved with the environment because once you go past the tipping point with the environment, you don't get it back.

  Chris Noth

  Past, Environment, Get Involved

  "Exclusive: Chris Noth Opens Up About Playing Mr. Big On Sex and the City, His New Life On The Good Wife, and the Crusade He's On to End Hunger!". Interview with Lauren Brown, www.glamour.com. October 8, 2012.

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• I drove an electric car for seven years because of its advanced technology, not because I have any concerns about energy resources. I have none at all. And when environmentalists say that global warming is dangerous, unprecedented and that we'll have a tipping point for atmospheric carbon dioxide, it's just nonsense.

  Burt Rutan

  Technology, Years, Car

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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, Warning

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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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• I always encourage over-tipping if you can afford it because share the wealth.

  Zach Braff

  Wealth, Share, Ifs

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• There's a tipping point that happens with soccer in which you just kinda get it. I was drawn to it because the best soccer teams play similarly to my favorite basketball teams - like the eighties Lakers or eighties Celtics - teams that emphasized teamwork over individualism and relied on passing as their biggest ongoing edge.

  Bill Simmons

  Basketball, Soccer, Teamwork

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• When you have a vision of where you need to go, it sounds utopian. But when you get to the tipping point, your understanding switches.

  Christiana Figueres

  Understanding, Vision, Sound

  "We’ll Have a Global Climate Treaty in 2015". Interview with Catherine Brahic, www.slate.com. March 22, 2014.

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• Is it 10 years, 20, 50 before we reach that tipping point where climate change becomes irreversible? Nobody can know. There's clearly a probability distribution. We need to ensure this planet, and we need to do it quickly.

  Vinod Khosla

  Years, Climate, Needs

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• It's hard to see a river all at once, especially in the mountains. Down on the plains, rivers run in their course as straightforward as time, channeled toward the sea. But up in the headwaters, a river isn't a point where you stand. In the beginnings of the river, you teeter on the edge of a hundred tiny watersheds where one drop of water is always tipping the balance from one stream to another. History changes with each tiny event, shaping an outcome that we can only fully grasp in hindsight. And that view changes as we move farther downstream.

  Lynn Culbreath Noel

  Running, Moving, Views

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• The Tipping Point is the biography of an idea, and the idea is very simple. It is that the best way to understand the emergence of fashion trends, the ebb and flow of crime waves, or, for that matter, the transformation of unknown books into bestsellers, or the rise of teenage smoking, or the phenomena of word of mouth, or any number of the other mysterious changes that mark everyday life is to think of them as epidemics. Ideas and products and messages and behaviors spread just like viruses do.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Fashion, Teenage, Book

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• We are reaching a tipping where the pace of settlements, during the course of my presidency has gotten so substantial that it's getting harder and harder to imagine an effective, contiguous Palestinian state. And I think it would have long-term consequences for peace and security in the region, and the United States, because of our investment in the region, and because we care so deeply about Israel, I think has a legitimate interest in saying to a friend, "This is a problem."

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Israel, Long

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• I still shop at Costco. I just started tipping two years ago.

  Bernard Hopkins

  Motivation, Years, Two

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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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• 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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