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

  Paul Collier

  Moving, Citizens, Gestures

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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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• We must always refill and ensure there is a critical mass of leaders and activists committed to nonviolence and racial and economic justice who will keep seeding and building transforming movements.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Justice, Leader, Movement

  "Ask What You Can Do For Your Country" by Marian Wright Edelman, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 22, 2013.

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

  John Simon

  Unique, Stronger, Needs

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• My novels tend to come about from a fusion of two big ideas, creating a critical mass that then fissions, throwing off hundreds of other particles, riffs, tropes and characters.

  Will Self

  Character, Ideas, Two

  "In the beginning" by Will Self, www.theguardian.com. June 16, 2007.

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• I would like to see a critical mass of very gifted anarchists come together in an appropriate place in order to do highly productive work. That's it. I don't know why that can't be done except for the fact that I think that people mistrust their own ideals today. I don't think that they don't believe in them; I think they mistrust the viability of them. They're afraid to commit themselves to their ideals.

  Murray Bookchin

  Believe, Thinking, Productive Work

  Source: robertgraham.wordpress.com

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• I've learned the importance of changing people's minds at the grassroots level so that whoever does run will have a much better chance of encountering public opinion that reaches a critical mass and brings about a change not only in White House policies but in the Congress and in the state legislatures and all around the world.

  Al Gore

  Running, White, People

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• There is critical mass with high-speed Internet connections, so video is a good user experience. And that means there can be critical mass for advertisers.

  Jim C. Walton

  Mean, Criticism, Connections

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• How dominating is appetite, how enveloping immediate experience! Even the philosophically minded among us capitulate, ultimately, to the narrowest sense of personal need. Political time moves at a snail's pace because it is only with nearly insurmountable difficulty that moral discomfort takes root in the best of people, forcing an imperative out of a complaint; so viscerally repugnant is it for a critical mass to find the prevailing system unbearable, much less prepare to take up arms against it.

  Vivian Gornick

  Moving, Roots, People

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• People are stereotypes, they are caricaturized. It comes from both sides of the political aisle, it comes from the press. It's all about conflict, it's all about personality, and there are huge stakes in the policies that are being debated, and I think there's a hunger amongst a very significant, maybe even a critical mass of Americans, clustered on the left, right, and center, to have an adult conversation about how we're going to solve these problems ... but it's not for the fainthearted.

  Hillary Clinton

  Thinking, People, Personality

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• It is not given to us to know which acts or by whom, will cause the critical mass to tip toward an enduring good. What's needed for dramatic change is an accumulation of acts, adding, adding to, adding more, continuing. We know that it does not take 'everyone on Earth' to bring justice and peace, but only a small, determined group who will not give up during the first, second, or hundredth gale.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Giving Up, Justice, Earth

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• politics and religion in the United States work like the twin grips of a pair of pliers on a critical mass of the masses.

  Roseanne Barr

  United States, Pliers, Politics

  Roseanne Barr (2012). “Roseannearchy: Dispatches from the Nut Farm”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• So, for me, working with larger companies has often been very satisfying, precisely because of the ability of bringing critical mass to bear on a given effort.

  Vinton Cerf

  Effort, Bears, Given

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• When a critical mass of people have the Bible and apply what it teaches in their lives, a nation is transformed.

  Loren Cunningham

  People, Mass, Teach

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• The signs that the world is spinning out of kilter are increasingly difficult to misinterpret. The question is how to convince enough people to join a critical mass of urgent opinion, in the U.S. and the rest of the world.

  Al Gore

  People, World, Spinning

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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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• Silicon Valley has evolved a critical mass of engineers and venture capitalists and all the support structure - the law firms, the real estate, all that - that are all actually geared toward being accepting of startups.

  Elon Musk

  Real, Law, Support

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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