Tipping Quotes - Page 2

• 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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• While the high-level climate talks pursue their stately progress towards some ill-defined destination, down in the trenches there is an undercurrent of suppressed panic in the conversations. The tipping points seem to be racing towards us a lot faster than people thought.

  Gwynne Dyer

  People, Racing, Progress

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• I'm tipping the hat and looking back.

  Robert Plant

  Hats, Looking Back

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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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• I also feel like motherhood, especially, is seen usually in movies with this saintly veil over it. There's something about tipping that and showing what's actually going on. Or the wish fulfillment of probably most moms, which is really exciting. It's an area that's unexplored.

  Kathryn Hahn

  Mom, Motherhood, Wish

  "Here's Mila Kunis and Kathryn Hahn's Advice For Every Husband". Interview with Emily Zemler, www.esquire.com. July 29, 2016.

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• There's something about looking at society's expectation of what [motherhood] is and tipping it.

  Kathryn Hahn

  Motherhood, Expectations

  "Here's Mila Kunis and Kathryn Hahn's Advice For Every Husband". Interview with Emily Zemler, www.esquire.com. July 29, 2016.

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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, Obsession

  "'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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• 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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• 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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• We are facing a tipping point of environmental crisis unprecedented in human history and our very survival is dependent on protecting nature.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Survival, Environmental, Crisis

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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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• See, I don't like places where people can't dance - don't like clubs or theatres where a bunch of bourgeois people sit around tip, tip, tipping their fingers.

  Etta James

  Inspirational, Dance, People

  "Etta James: 'I was like a punker ... I'd spit in a minute' - a classic interview from the vaults" by Cliff White, www.theguardian.com. January 24, 2012.

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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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• Women can do anything men can do. Except math, chess, running, jumping, lifting stuff, fixing things, making money, hockey, surfing, driving, making decisions, being tall, taking out the garbage, tipping, fishing, being funny (on purpose), reading a map, listening to good bands, writing, running the country, inventing anything important, or being fun to hang out with.

  Daniel Tosh

  Country, Running, Fun

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• I know they're not getting divorced or anything, but when your parents argue it makes the whole universe seem like it's tipping, like everything could change if they got mad enough at each other, like the world isn't a safe place. And of course, that's true, isn't it? The world is not a safe place.

  E. Lockhart

  Mad, Parent, World

  E. Lockhart (2016). “Ruby Oliver 3: The Treasure Map of Boys”, p.58, Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.

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• [F]rank knew he was guilty of arrogance and misanthropy, but he compensated by being kind to strangers and tipping really well at restaurants.

  Sherman Alexie

  Arrogance, Be Kind, Guilty

  FaceBook post by Sherman Alexie from Oct 22, 2015

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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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• 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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• Anthony Bridgerton leaned back in his leather chair,and then announced, "I'm thinking about getting married." Benedict Bridgerton, who had been indulging in a habit his mother detested—tipping his chair drunkenly on the back two legs—fell over. Colin Bridgerton started to choke. Luckily for Colin, Benedict regained his seat with enough time to smack him soundly on the back, sending a green olive sailing across the table. It narrowly missed Anthony's ear.

  Julia Quinn

  Mother, Thinking, Two

  Julia Quinn (2015). “The Viscount Who Loved Me With 2nd Epilogue”, p.14, HarperCollins

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• The moon rose, an opalescent goddess tipping light from her harsh maternal scimitar.

  Gregory Maguire

  Moon, Light, Rose

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• For every reader who dies today, a viewer is born, and we seem to be witnessing . . . the final tipping balance.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Balance, Finals, Today

  Jonathan Franzen (2007). “How to Be Alone: Essays”, p.165, Macmillan

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• In our travels, we have come across many equations--math for understanding the universe, for making music, for mapping stars, and also for tipping, which is important. Here is our favorite equation: Us plus Them equals All of Us. It is very simple math. Try it sometime. You probably won’t even need a pencil.

  Libba Bray

  Stars, Math, Simple

  Libba Bray (2009). “Going Bovine”, p.428, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• Of course it hurts", she grumbled, tipping my head further back. "Life sucks. Get over it

  Sarah Dessen

  Hurt, Life Sucks, Over It

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “Keeping the Moon”, p.87, Penguin

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• Tally sighed, tipping her feet again to follow. "Maybe that's because they have better stuff to do than kid tricks. Maybe partying in town is better than hanging out in a bunch of old ruins." Shay's eyes flashed. "Or maybe when they do the operation-when they grind and stretch your bones to the right shape, peel off your face and rub all your skin away, and stick in plastic cheekbones so you look like everyone else-maybe after going through all that you just aren't very interesting anymore.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Party, Kids, Eye

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• But God!Who could live like this , anyway, with the kind of guesswork that was enough to make a person crazy, just sailing along, taking bumps here and there, no course navigated whatsoever, with any big wave capable of just tipping and sinking you entirely. IT was madness, stipidity, and- (then I saw him)

  Sarah Dessen

  Crazy, Sailing, Here And There

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