Inflection Point Quotes

#1. She was still developing her sundial theory of art, which would count no hours but the sunny ones.

Wallace Stegner

#2. The environment that we call society is created by past generations; we accept it, as it helps us to maintain our greed, possessiveness, illusion.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#3. This is how willpower becomes a habit: by choosing a certain behavior ahead of time, and then following that routine when an inflection point arrives.

Charles Duhigg

#4. Volvo is like a mysterious, beautiful woman. We just look at her from far away, amazed. We don't dare get close to her. We're just a bunch of farm boys.

Li Shufu

#5. But you can be too intelligent, I said. Sometimes it's not an asset it's a curse.

William Boyd

#6. The inflection point at which we have arrived is one in which we are increasingly seizing the keys to all creation, as astonding as that might seem.

Joel Garreau

#7. Oh it just gives me the heebie-jeebies

Rachel Vail

#8. Buyers of powerful cars place a high premium on the exhaust note, and manufacturers spend a lot of money getting it right. At the same time, high-end cars are expected to filter out the sounds of the mundane world.

Serge Schmemann

#9. Habit: by choosing a certain behavior ahead of time, and then following that routine when an inflection point arrives. When

Charles Duhigg

#10. Acceptance is going to a restaurant where the salad's not great, but the steak is fine.

Albert Brooks

#11. I lived in a hut with no roof, and I rode to school on a donkey. I used to shoot birds with a slingshot to cook for dinner. Now I prefer to get my food from KFC.

Wyclef Jean

#12. I think the economic empowerment of women that has been growing over the past decade is at the 'inflection point' with this global recession. Women are, we believe, the solution for their families in their ability to go out and increase household income.

Andrea Jung

#13. As an American, I grew up in an era where we led the world in everything. Everything!

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#14. Sometimes I think death is even more inevitable than taxes," his grandmother replies bleakly. "Humans don't live in a vacuum; we're part of a larger pattern of life.

Charles Stross

#15. Back in 2005-2006 when Tudou and Youku were founded, we saw the inflection point with the opportunity to build the leading PC-based video website.

Victor Koo

#16. quickly. Afterward, things are not so easy. The twenties are that critical period of adulthood. These are the years when it will be easiest to start the lives we want. And no matter what we do, the twenties are an inflection point - the great reorganization - a

Meg Jay

#17. This is no longer a prayer but a demand to be made by all peoples to their governments - a demand to choose definitively between hell and reason.

Albert Camus

#18. First, accept sadness. Realize that without losing, winning isn't so great.

Alyssa Milano

#19. A strategic inflection point is a time in the life of business when its fundamentals are about to change. that change can mean an opportunity to rise to new heights. But it may just as likely signal the beginning of the end

Andrew S. Grove

#20. Strategy is not about doing things ... it's about doing things deliberately.

Buffi Neal

#21. How much longer do you think you'll be able to keep doing this?"
"Keep doing what?"
"Chatting someone up for a week, fucking her, and moving on the the next. How much longer?"
"Until my dick stops working.

Whitney Gracia Williams

#22. We are at an inflection point in history.

Joel Garreau