Peter Gleick Quotes

#1. How would we feel if you could pay extra to smoke on airplanes? When we decide something is a bad idea in general for society, we don't want the rich to be able to buy their way out of it.

Peter Gleick

#2. This isn't about 'causality' but about 'influence'. The evidence is clear that human-induced climate change is influencing the drought, no matter the cause.

Peter Gleick

#3. Investors should be cautiously positioned as the global economy and markets face major uncertainties. The downgrade will be a further headwind to growth and job creation in the U.S.

Mohamed El-Erian

#4. The business of imagined pleasure is associated with pain.

Dada Bhagwan

#5. I've got no interest in football. My brother's a footballer, too, and I was dragged to the freezing pitch every week as a child. I don't see much glamour in it.

Abbey Clancy

#6. Boredom strives to detach, but finds itself stuck.

Mason Cooley

#7. As soon as you bring up money, I notice, conversation gets sociological, then political, then moral.

Jane Smiley

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

Ian Goldin

#9. There are degrees of screwed.

Peter H. Gleick

#10. It's great that it's raining. But people should not assume that a little bit of rain is going to solve our problem.

Peter Gleick

#11. Progress is impossible without the ability to admit mistakes.

Masaaki Imai

#12. As a writer, I am just an actor in a play, telling a story that needs to be told.

Rita Webb

#13. Anyone not paranoid in this world must be crazy ... Speaking of paranoia, it's true that I do not know exactly who my enemies are. But that of course is exactly why I'm paranoid.

Edward Abbey

#14. It was early still, the sky white, nude.

Elizabeth Brundage

#15. Somehow, the words don't have any vitality, any life to them, unless I can feel it marking on a paper. That's how I start. Once I'm off, then I switch to the laptop. I think it would all just be prose if it started on a laptop - not that what I do is poetry.

Simon Schama

#16. Water is a means to an end, not an end in itself.

Peter Gleick