Ellen Macarthur Quotes

#1. When you start you're trying to achieve staying alive and getting home. If you can do both of those, then you stand a chance of breaking the record.

Ellen MacArthur

#2. There's a price to pay for the speed, and that is danger. And to push that hard on a boat - it does take a lot out of you and is incredibly stressful.

Ellen MacArthur

#3. Her lips were hers one moment. And the they were his.

Renee Ahdieh

#4. I'd do it because you wanted me to. That's more ... " What was the word? "Satisfying, I guess. I like that better. Sometimes that's what makes something really good, even. Because I don't want to do it but I'm pleasing you.

Laurelin Paige

#5. In the beginning, there's a boy standing in the trees.

Cynthia Hand

#6. Death is not treatment, even if it's medically facilitated.

Stella Young

#7. Home advantage is usually an advantage to the home team

Johnny Giles

#8. The linear 'Take - Make - Dispose' system, which depletes natural resources and generates waste, is deeply flawed and can be productively replaced by a restorative model in which waste does not exist as such but is only food for the next cycle

Ellen MacArthur

#9. Want me to sell my soul, just so I can go gold. You can have the cars, clothes the jewerlies, the houses and hos. Cats do anything for a little bit of fame and a little bit of change. Industry snakes, they ain't friendly. Thought she loved me, she just tricked me.

Bow Wow

#10. The U.S. Census Bureau reports that American homes are 650 square feet larger today than they were in 1980. Unfortunately, so are most Americans.

Conan O'Brien

#11. Rethinking the future: It is a profound challenge, at the end of an era of cheap oil and materials to rethink and redesign how we produce and consume; to reshape how we live and work, or even to imagine the jobs that will be needed for transition

Ellen MacArthur

#12. If we could build an economy that would use things rather than use them up, we could build a future.

Ellen MacArthur

#13. There's a plane flying over me and I'm looking forward to being able to relax and not worry about the weather or boat speed.

Ellen MacArthur

#14. We're surrounded by Universal Desire. It's not happiness; it's desire. And desires are never satisfied, because once they are, they cease to be desires

Paulo Coelho

#15. In a comedy, after the day is done, you can figure out ways of how to make it even funnier for the next day. In dramas, it's very different - the mindset that you're in.

Gael Garcia Bernal

#16. When I circumnavigated the globe the outcome didn't really matter, it was about a goal I'd set myself, but sustainability is part of all our lives

Ellen MacArthur

#17. When you sail on a boat you take with you the minimum of resources. You don't waste anything. You don't leave the light on; you don't leave a computer screen on ... on land we take what we want

Ellen MacArthur

#18. There is a massive economic opportunity out there to be taken without waiting for government legislation.

Ellen MacArthur

#19. Learning is any change in a system that produces a more or less permanent change in its capacity for adapting to its environment.

Herbert Simon

#20. I think that's the real horror story for me, how little you can ever really know about your own motivations. How in the dark we all are about the concerns and the contents of our minds.

Karen Russell

#21. My books are so tame!

Sarah Dessen