Local To Global Quotes

#1. I spent twenty years of my life trying to recruit people out of local churches and into missions structures so that they could be involved in fulfilling God's global mission. Now I have another idea. Let's take God's global mission and put it right in the middle of the local church!

George H. Miley

#2. I hope to see an integrated solution created to deal with both the local pollution problem and the global climate change problem.

Ma Jun

#3. A personal brand, once local and temporal, is now global and forever. That's the blessing and the curse of the internet with regards to your reputation.

Ryan Lilly

#4. Pretty soon we'll have robots in our society, you're going to have a lot of automated processes that used to be done by people - this is happening. Society and technology is changing so fast, and the impact of the change on society and technology is global, not local.

Jose Padilha

#5. We have the ability to achieve, if we master the necessary goodwill, a common global society blessed with a shared culture of peace that is nourished by the ethnic, national and local diversities that enrich our lives.

Mahnaz Afkhami

#6. The leader's commandment is made up of pledges to solve local and global problems, and not to create more problems to add to the existing ones.

Israelmore Ayivor

#7. The best way to be GLOBAL is to be LOCAL

Alex Atala

#8. An economy genuinely local and neighborly offers to localities a measure of security that they cannot derive from a national or a global economy controlled by people who, by principle, have no local commitment.

Wendell Berry

#9. Like the effects of industrial pollution and the new system of global financial markets, the AIDS crisis is evidence of a world in which nothing important is regional, local, limited; in which everything that can circulate does, and every problem is, or is destined to become, worldwide.

Susan Sontag

#10. Brew it local; make it global; take it to the very far.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#11. My husband, Andrew Shue, is the co-founder of Do Something, and we both speak and present at awards ceremonies. It's absolutely amazing and humbling to see all the work so many young people are contributing to better their communities on both a local and global front.

Amy Robach

#12. I'm convinced that there's a new way to define capitalism, and that the definition should include three ingredients - that we love our work, that we are building a traditionally successful business, and that we are having some positive impact in the world, whether it's local or global.

Biz Stone

#13. The only way to write complex software that won't fall on its face is to hold its global complexity down - to build it out of simple pieces connected by well-defined interfaces, so that most problems are local and you can have some hope of fixing or optimizing a part without breaking the whole

Eric S. Raymond

#14. But leanness is a methodology, not a goal. Making small changes to things that already exist might lead you to a local maximum, but it won't help you find the global maximum.

Peter Thiel

#15. Misogyny has not been completely wiped out anywhere. Rather, it resides on a spectrum, and our best hope for eradicating it globally is for each of us to expose and to fight against local versions of it, in the understanding that by doing so we advance the global struggle.

Mona Eltahawy

#16. Modern dynamical systems theory has a relatively short history. It begins with Poincare (of course) ... [to whom] a global understanding of the gross behavior of all solutions of the system was more important than the local behavior of particular, analytically-precise solutions.

Robert L. Devaney

#17. Global actions require local and national participation. International cooperation and action requires community perspectives and legitimacy if it is to be effective.

Ian Goldin

#18. Where issues used to be, say, parochial or local in Ireland or England and so forth, all politics is global now because all business is global.

Gabriel Byrne

#19. Even if the chance of impacting global change is slight and we don't know our chances of success, our ethical obligation is not simply to advance architecture, but to find ways to advance society and expand people's networks
one local intervention at a time.

Graham Owen

#20. To address our current food system problems, I propose a series of local, regional, national and global conversations - starting around the dinner table - to rethink the food we produce, buy and eat.

Ellen Gustafson

#21. If the group has a negative social mood, believing that tomorrow will be worse than today, the bias goes in the opposite direction. Instead of "welcoming" we have "rejecting," instead of "global" we tend to see events that are "local" and so forth.

John L. Casti

#22. As free citizens in a political democracy, we have a responsibility to be interested and involved in the affairs of the human community, be it at the local or the global level.

Paul Wellstone

#23. The company that creates one global social graph will be very important going forward. It will be Facebook, with maybe 2-3 local social networks able to sustain competition long term.

Yuri Milner

#24. Due to global warming, the coming winters in the local regions will become milder.

Stefan Rahmstorf

#25. Nations have the wrong granularity. They're too small to be global and too big to be local, and all they can think about is competing.

Nicholas Negroponte

#26. Do not do anything local as believers. Whatever you do should be magnified to be comprehensive

Sunday Adelaja

#27. Topology is precisely the mathematical discipline that allows the passage from local to global ...

Rene Thom

#28. Nations will weaken but will still exist in 2100. They will still be needed to pass laws and fix local problems. However, their power and influence will be vastly decreased as the engines of economic growth become regional, then global.

Anonymous

#29. Its easier to start a global business than a local one, make your business one where you can work from anywhere in the world

Roger James Hamilton

#30. The role of the United Nations is to set the mental clocks of the world leaders from past problems to the present opportunities and from local power mindset to global welfare mindset.

Amit Ray

#31. Among the privileges of being a superpower, the right and the ability to make a local quarrel into a global one ranks very high.

Christopher Hitchens

#32. Your local dreams contain global elements; think global. On no account should you settle with a crowd when God has called you for multitudes! Dare to dream big!

Israelmore Ayivor

#33. The serious problems facing the world today will never be solved until women are able to use their full potential on behalf of themselves, their families, and their global and local communities, as the World Bank and others have discovered.

Jenny Shipley

#34. The challenge, then, is to take minds and hearts formed over the long millennia of living in local troops and equip them with ideas and institutions that will allow us to live together as the global tribe we have become.

Kwame Anthony Appiah