Quotes About Tipping Point

#1. The name given to that one dramatic moment in an epidemic when everything can change all at once is the Tipping Point.

Malcolm Gladwell

#2. The three rules of the Tipping Point - the Law of the Few, the Stickiness Factor, the Power of Context - offer a way of making sense of epidemics. They provide us with direction for how to go about reaching a Tipping Point.

Malcolm Gladwell

#3. Small mistakes, the lack of care, little accidents, and somewhere a tipping point is passed and things go badly wrong. Expedition history brims with tragedies built out of incremental missteps.

Alan S. Kesselheim

#4. The tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire.

Malcolm Gladwell

#5. If we want groups to serve as incubators for contagious messages, then ... we have to keep groups below the 150 Tipping Point. Above that point, there begin to be structural impediments to the ability of the group to agree and act with one voice.

Malcolm Gladwell

#6. Remember it only takes giving love and good feelings a minimum of 51 percent of the tiem to reach the tipping point and change everything.

Rhonda Byrne

#7. We're heading towards a perception tipping point where it's going to soon become a foregone conclusion that not only has Newark turned a corner, but it's way down the right road.

Cory Booker

#8. Is it 10 years, 20, 50 before we reach that tipping point where climate change becomes irreversible? Nobody can know. There's clearly a probability distribution. We need to ensure this planet, and we need to do it quickly.

Vinod Khosla

#9. When herding behaviour among investors ramps up, a stock's or index's growth rate can increase faster than exponentially, leading to more herding. This positive feedback brings the system to a tipping point. About two-thirds of the time, a crash results.

Didier Sornette

#10. Some experts look at global warming, increased world temperature, as the critical tipping point that is causing a crash in coral reef health around the world. And there's no question that it is a factor, but it's preceded by the loss of resilience and degradation.

Sylvia Earle

#11. The end of the world was supposed to be gradual. There was supposed to be warning. A long, slow slide. What we got was punctuated equilibrium: a stately wobbling, then a sudden tipping point. There was plenty of warning, I suppose. We just weren't paying attention.

Elizabeth Bear

#12. I am not alone in thinking that we are at a tipping point ecologically and morally and politically. Democracy cannot survive without a vibrant middle class, yet the policies of one of the parties has been committed to wiping it out for 30 years.

Deborah Kass

#13. Short stories are my favorite art form. A good one is compact and complete, a telling little slice of life, capturing a moment in time that - for the character - defines her, changes her, is the tipping point for all that will follow.

Ellen Klages

#14. It's amazing how a single act of love can transform someone from the inside out. Even in your life, one single act of love could be the tipping point to someone knowing the truth of Christ, so don't withhold that from anyone you come across.

Jarrid Wilson

#15. A single act of courage is often the tipping point for extraordinary change.

Andy Stanley

#16. Many say our world is at a tipping point. If we do not act together, if we do not act responsibly, if we do not act now, we risk slipping into a cycle of poverty, degradation, and despair.

Ban Ki-moon

#17. The pace of global warming is accelerating and the scale of the impact is devastating. The time for action is limited - we are approaching a tipping point beyond which the opportunity to reverse the damage of CO2 emissions will disappear.

Eliot Spitzer

#18. There's a tipping point with lies, a point where you've said something so many times that it feels truer than the truth.

Holly Black

#19. Right now over 70 percent of the world population is convinced that something serious has to be done about the dangers facing the planet ... Most of humanity wants to know how to make the change. It's one of those tipping-point times where things can change unbelievably fast ...

Paul Ray

#20. I think we could be at a tipping point

Charles Schumer

#21. I do genuinely believe that the political system is not linear. When it reaches a tipping point fashioned by a critical mass of opinion, the slow pace of change we're used to will no longer be the norm. I see a lot of signs every day that we're moving closer and closer to that tipping point.

Al Gore

#22. The Newtown massacre created a tipping point on the gun debate in America.

Mark McKinnon

#23. I always get involved with the environment because once you go past the tipping point with the environment, you don't get it back.

Chris Noth

#24. Sometimes it's hard to start, but once it gets going, once you reach the tipping point - usually between chapter seven and nine - then it's like hanging onto a large snowball as it hurtles downhill.

Kerry Greenwood

#25. There are fixed points throughout time where things must stay exactly the way they are. This is not one of them, this is an opportunity. Whatever happens here will create its own timeline, its own reality, a temporal tipping point. The future revolves around you, here, now, so do good!

Chris Chibnall

#26. After 'Inconvenient Truth,' we hit a tipping point where almost everybody in America cares about the environment.

Catherine Hardwicke

#27. Like all paradises, Topanga is pitched at the tipping point of promise and peril.

Steve Erickson

#28. When well-qualified, upper middle-class blacks or Latinos or Asians move to predominantly white neighborhoods, there's what's called the tipping point. That tipping point is generally 15 percent; at 15 percent you begin to see white flight.

Richard Benjamin

#29. You are closer to victory than you know, when you feel you just can't go on any longer. It is what makes champions who they are, the ability to muster up a little bit more when everyone else would give in. It is at that moment a tipping point usually occurs.

JohnA Passaro

#30. Re-use is a necessity, but it should be a natural reflex, and find the right "tipping point.

Pearl Zhu

#31. Galen glanced at the peregrine circling them. He couldn't shake the feeling that the falcon and Logan's need to uncover who was behind the magic controlling the bird just might be the tipping point that caused Logan to succumb to the darkness.

Donna Grant

#32. Objective evaluations set the foundation that moves leaders to the tipping point ...

Quint Studer

#33. Just as Tom Gau could, through the persuasive force of his personality, serve as a Tipping Point in a word-of-mouth epidemic, the people who die in highly publicized suicides-whose deaths give others "permission" to die-serve as the Tipping Points in suicide epidemics.

Malcolm Gladwell

#34. The beauty of the unexpected lies within the surprise of the momentum,
not only at its tipping point, but also within all the moments waiting.

Akilnathan Logeswaran

#35. We're putting 70 million tonnes of pollution into the atmosphere every day, trapping an enormous amount of extra heat from the sun inside the earth's atmosphere. It's threatening to push the planet past a tipping point beyond which climate change would be difficult to stop

Al Gore

#36. If you can reach just 10 percent of the population, you can begin to reach a tipping point; that's where true social movements take place - it's a numbers game. And when you reach that number, the truth becomes obvious and empires of injustice crumble and fall.

Louie Psihoyos

#37. We are facing a tipping point of environmental crisis unprecedented in human history and our very survival is dependent on protecting nature.

Leonardo DiCaprio

#38. Salting the most nuanced of enterprises, the food always requesting more, but the tipping point fatal.

Stephanie Danler

#39. Is there a point at which we hit a tipping point and all of this economic, cultural and moral trouble sends us into a death spiral we can't get out of?

Joel C. Rosenberg

#40. The middle class in America is at a tipping point. It will not last another generation if we don't boldly change course now.

Bernie Sanders

#41. The reality is that a consumer culture which chucks out its iPhones for a new version every nine months is completely unsustainable, because Earth has already reached the tipping point. 'The General Strike' attempts to personalize these issues and encourage listeners to look for a new model.

Justin Sane

#42. There's no tipping point where you become what you are. Character development starts when you're growing up. Your socioeconomic background contributes. The attitude that gets you through some communities doesn't work in corporate America. It's not an excuse, but it does help explain

Maurice Clarett

#43. A tipping point is invisible, as we just saw in Greece. In most situations, everything appears fine until it's not fine, until, for example, no one shows up at a Treasury auction.

Seth Klarman

#44. The primary reason we do too much is that we have never taken the time to discover that portion of what we do that makes the biggest difference.

Andy Stanley

#45. Acquaintances, in sort, represent a source of social power, and the more acquaintances you have the more powerful you are.

Malcolm Gladwell

#46. Look at the world around you. It may seem like an immovable, implacable place. It is not, With the slightest push - in just the right place - it can be tipped.

Malcolm Gladwell

#47. There had been no one thing at which to point blame. The break-up was the accumulation of months of dissatisfaction. But if there was one thing that had tipped her over the edge, it was the toothpaste.

Lauren Dane