Majors Quotes - Page 12

• There is no question that photography has played a major role in the environmental movement.

  Galen Rowell

  Photography, Environmental, Roles

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• Speed is what makes the Premiership exciting. The millions who would have watched Manchester United and Chelsea would have seen a non-stop game in which the pace was electric even though the first half was a non-event. You could see a better technical game in Spain but for sheer frenetic movement there is nothing that comes close... Pace is more critical in the Premiership than in any other major league and if you don't have pace, you have to compensate with power or ability in the air and since Shevchenko has no power and is not particularly good in the air, he is in trouble.

  Alan Hansen

  Soccer, Football, Air

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• I have seen women walk right past a TV set with a football game on and - this always amazes me - not stop to watch, even if the TV is showing replays of what we call a "good hit," which is a tackle that causes at least one major internal organ to actually fly out of a player's body.

  Dave Barry

  Football, Past, Player

  Dave Barry (2012). “The Greatest Invention in the History of Mankind Is Beer: And Other Manly Insights from Dave Barry”, p.33, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• The major difference between the 'best' and the 'average' is that the 'best' get as much pleasure from practice as performance.

  Benjamin Zander

  Teaching, Learning, Practice

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• We see community organizations as major service providers and economic drivers rather than as recipients or distributors of charity, and coordinators of volunteers. Today they constitute what's referred to as 'the social economy'.

  Julia Gillard

  Organization, Volunteer, Community

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• If we assume that the purpose of the economy is to serve and improve the welfare of the entire body of citizens, the U.S. model has clearly been a major failure. It has served a minority, and the majority have not only failed to share in the income gains yielded by the model, they have suffered from reduced benefits, greater job instability and stress, and a diminution of expectations and sense of hope for the future.

  Edward S. Herman

  Jobs, Stress, Expectations

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• This present window of opportunity, during which a truly peaceful and interdependent world order might be built, will not be open for too long - We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis and the nations will accept the New World Order.

  David Rockefeller

  Opportunity, Order, Nwo

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• Successful people, in all callings, never stop acquiring specialized knowledge related to their major purpose, business, or profession.

  Napoleon Hill

  Success, People, Purpose

  Napoleon Hill, Wallace D. Wattles (2012). “Get Rich Collection”, p.60, Penguin

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• We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis.

  David Rockefeller

  Eugenics, World Government, Order

  "Common Sense 2009" by Larry Flynt, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 20, 2009.

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• Either the Earth System would undergo major phase transitions as a result of unchecked human pressure on nature's capacities and resources or a "Great Transformation" towards global sustainability would be initiated in due course. Neither transitions nor transformations will be manageable without novel forms of global governance and markets.

  Hans Joachim Schellnhuber

  Transition, Would Be, Phases

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• Rewrite your major goals every day, in the present tense, exactly as if they already existed

  Brian Tracy

  Goal, Tense, Ifs

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Nov 22, 2013

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• It is a simple fact of life on earth that there is going to be no successful mitigation of the climate change problem without a truly global effort. All developing companies or all major developing countries have to be part of that and accept substantial constraints on greenhouse gas emissions.

  Ross Garnaut

  Life, Country, Successful

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• Climate science has been targeted by a major political movement, environmentalism, as the focus of their efforts, wherein the natural disasters of the earth system, have come to be identified with man's activities - engendering fear as well as an agenda for societal reform and control... This greatly facilitates any conscious effort to politicize science via influence in such bodies where a handful of individuals (often not even scientists) speak on behalf of organizations that include thousands of scientists, and even enforce specific scientific positions and agendas.

  Richard Lindzen

  Men, Organization, Focus

  "Climate Science: Is it currently designed to answer questions?". Richard Lindzen's remarks for Program in Atmospheres, Oceans and Climate at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, arxiv.org. September 19, 2008.

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• You see that pale, blue dot? That's us. Everything that has ever happened in all of human history, has happened on that pixel. All the triumphs and all the tragedies, all the wars all the famines, all the major advances... it's our only home. And that is what is at stake, our ability to live on planet Earth, to have a future as a civilization. I believe this is a moral issue, it is your time to seize this issue, it is our time to rise again to secure our future.

  Al Gore

  War, Believe, Home

  "An Inconvenient Truth". Documentary, www.imdb.com. June 30, 2006.

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• During the time I was in office we have seen the beginning of the elimination of the fire season completely and are having fires all year round. I think we have seen the major problem of the destruction of land and property and lives that is a major problem because we don't have the resources for that many fires and we don't have the resources and the manpower to fight those fires throughout the year.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Fighting, Thinking, Fire

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• I don't believe ... global warming is real. Do we have climate change? Yes. Is it a crisis? No. ... Because the science, the real science, doesn't say that we have any major crisis or threat when it comes to climate change.

  Herman Cain

  Real, Believe, Climate

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• This week we saw progressive business and faith leaders making strong commitments that are moving ahead of what world leaders promised today. The leaders of major economies must be bolder than they were today in providing a vision for 100% renewable energy for all.

  Kumi Naidoo

  Strong, Moving, Commitment

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• Margaret Thatcher was the first political leader in any major country to warn of the dangers of climate change

  Ed Miliband

  Country, Leader, Political

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• Can nine billion people be fed? Can we cope with the demands in the future on water? Can we provide enough energy? Can we do it, all that, while mitigating and adapting to climate change? And can we do all that in 21 years time? That's when these things are going to start hitting in a really big way. We need to act now. We need investment in science and technology, and all the other ways of treating very seriously these major problems. 2030 is not very far away

  John Beddington

  Technology, Years, People

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• I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.

  Winston Bennett

  Funny, Sports, Stupid

  Winston Bennett (2011). “Fight for Your Life: From Tragedy to Triumph”, p.127, Tate Publishing

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• A second variety concentrated on presumed major transformations of the capitalist system as of some recent point in time, in which the whole earlier point of time served as a mythologized foil against which to treat the empirical reality of the present.

  Immanuel Wallerstein

  Reality, Transformation, Treats

  Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein (1995). “Capistalist Civilisation”, p.7, Verso

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• To elevate the goals of humankind, to achieve high moral purpose, to realize major intended change, leaders must thrust themselves into the most intractable processes and structures of history and ultimately master them.

  James MacGregor Burns

  Goal, Leader, Purpose

  James MacGregor Burns (1978). “Leadership”, Harpercollins

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• Small things done consistently, in strategic places, create major impact.

  David Allen

  Motivation, Impact, Done

  Twitter post from Aug 10, 2015

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• The major problems in the world are the result of the difference between how nature works and the way people think.

  Gregory Bateson

  Nature, Thinking, Differences

  "Business needs to learn to see separate challenges as part of the whole" by Giles Hutchins, www.theguardian.com. April 5, 2012.

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• The great ecosystems are like complex tapestries - a million complicated threads, interwoven, make up the whole picture. Nature can cope with small rents in the fabric; it can even, after a time, cope with major disasters like floods, fires, and earthquakes. What nature cannot cope with is the steady undermining of its fabric by the activities of man.

  Gerald Durrell

  Men, Fire, Ecosystems

  Gerald Durrell (1989). “The Amateur Naturalist”, Alfred A. Knopf

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