Tipping Point Quotes - Page 3

• If you want to bring a fundamental change in people's belief and behavior...you need to create a community around them, where those new beliefs can be practiced and expressed and nurtured.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  People, Community, Needs

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

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• It is those who are successful, in other words, who are most likely to be given the kinds of special opportunities that lead to further success.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Successful, Opportunity, Special

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• A book, I was taught long ago in English class, is a living and breathing document that grows richer with each new reading.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Book, Reading, Long Ago

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• Some experts look at global warming, increased world temperature, as the critical tipping point that is causing a crash in coral reef health around the world. And there's no question that it is a factor, but it's preceded by the loss of resilience and degradation.

  Sylvia Earle

  Loss, Resilience, Coral Reefs

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• We're putting 70 million tonnes of pollution into the atmosphere every day, trapping an enormous amount of extra heat from the sun inside the earth's atmosphere. It's threatening to push the planet past a tipping point beyond which climate change would be difficult to stop

  Al Gore

  Past, Atmosphere, Sun

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• There’s no tipping point where you become what you are. Character development starts when you’re growing up. Your socioeconomic background contributes. The attitude that gets you through some communities doesn’t work in corporate America. It’s not an excuse, but it does help explain

  Maurice Clarett

  Growing Up, Attitude, Character

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• The hope with Tipping Point was it would help the reader understand that real change was possible. With Blink, I wanted to get people to take the enormous power of their intuition seriously. My wish with Outliers is that it makes us understand how much of a group project success is. When outliers become outliers it is not just because of their own efforts. It's because of the contributions of lots of different people and lots of different circumstances.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Real, People, Effort

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• We are on the precipice of climate system tipping points beyond which there is no redemption.

  James Hansen

  Climate, Redemption, Tipping

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• Economists often talk about the 80/20 Principle, which is the idea that in any situation roughly 80 percent of the “work” will be done by 20 percent of the participants. In most societies, 20 percent of criminals commit 80 percent of crimes. Twenty percent of motorists cause 80 percent of all accidents. Twenty percent of beer drinkers drink 80 percent of all beer. When it comes to epidemics, though, this disproportionality becomes even more extreme: a tiny percentage of people do the majority of the work.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Beer, Epidemics, Ideas

  "How to start an epidemic" by Malcolm Gladwell, www.theguardian.com. April 22, 2000.

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• We have at most ten years - not ten years to decide upon action, but ten years to alter fundamentally the trajectory of global greenhouse emissions... We are near a tipping point, a point of no return, beyond which the built in momentum and feedbacks will carry us to levels of climate change with staggering consequences for humanity and all of the residents of this planet.

  James Hansen

  Decide Upon, Years, Humanity

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• I wore one on the first episode of season one [of Fuller House], and then I saw it, and I went back to my hairstylist, and I was like, "We are never using this again!" I know it was a good throwback for that first season, but I am 40, I cannot pull off a scrunchie anymore. Nobody should be wearing a scrunchie anymore. I feel angry. That is my tipping point.

  Andrea Barber

  House, Tipping, Saws

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• Nobody should be wearing a scrunchie anymore. I feel angry. That is my tipping point.

  Andrea Barber

  Tipping, Should, Feels

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• We're just at a point in regard to race relations, we're at a tipping point in America. It's a crucial time. It's sad, honestly, I think it's a place that deep down no one wants to be in. But it's something that needs to be addressed, it's something that needs to be fixed, and hopefully we can figure it out and take steps toward doing that.

  Andrew Hawkins

  Thinking, America, Race

  "'People Told Me to Shut Up and Play Football'". "Hang Up and Listen" with Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, and Mike Pesca, www.slate.com. July 18, 2016.

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• I think Ugg went out of being something that Kate Moss and Sienna Miller were wearing in high fashion circles and then they were embraced by everyone. Once something reaches that tipping point of mass popularity then suddenly the fashion world is a bit like, "Wah." As you say, you see them less kind of everywhere now so maybe it's time to bring them back.

  Alexa Chung

  Fashion, Thinking, Circles

  "Alexa Chung Wants to Bring Uggs Back, 2002 Style". Interview with Nikki Ogunnaike, www.elle.com. October 7, 2016.

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• My wildest tipping point moment came when I was introduced to Clint Eastwood. He was sitting there, typical Clint Eastwood, wearing a white T-shirt and jeans, holding a Budweiser. He looks at me and says, "I watch your show from time to time." I just stopped. I was like, "I can't even think about that. I'm not even sure if I'm happy about that."

  Chris Harrison

  Thinking, White, Jeans

  Source: www.glamour.com

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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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• 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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• Objective evaluations set the foundation that moves leaders to the tipping point.

  Quint Studer

  Moving, Teaching, Learning

  Quint Studer (2010). “Results That Last: Hardwiring Behaviors That Will Take Your Company to the Top”, p.106, John Wiley & Sons

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• There are exceptional people out there who are capable of starting epidemics. All you have to do is find them.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Epidemics, People, Tipping

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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, Tipping

  Source: www.researchgate.net

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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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• Do you think we're going to hit a tipping point and the world's going to end?

  Eric Andre

  Thinking, Tipping, World

  Source: www.complex.com

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• As people's access to the internet grows we're seeing the sharing economy boom - I think our obsession with ownership is at a tipping point and the sharing economy is part of the antidote for that.

  Richard Branson

  Thinking, People, Tipping

  "'Our obsession with ownership is at a tipping point': As he gives £1m to UK start-ups Richard Branson reveals why he's backing the sharing economy". Interview with Eleanor Lawrie, www.dailymail.co.uk. June 30, 2016.

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