Top 16 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
#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
#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
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