Quotes About Tipping Points

#1. 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

#2. The urgency derives from the nearness of climate tipping points.

James Hansen

#3. The climate is nearing tipping points. Changes are beginning to appear and there is a potential for explosive changes, effects that would be irreversible, if we do not rapidly slow fossil-fuel emissions over the next few decades.

James Hansen

#4. We are on the precipice of climate system tipping points beyond which there is no redemption.

James Hansen

#5. We have, in short, somehow become convinced that we need to tackle the whole problem, all at once. But the truth is that we don't. We only need to find the stickiness Tipping Points,

Malcolm Gladwell

#6. While the high-level climate talks pursue their stately progress towards some ill-defined destination, down in the trenches there is an undercurrent of suppressed panic in the conversations. The tipping points seem to be racing towards us a lot faster than people thought.

Gwynne Dyer

#7. Minor, seemingly insignificant quality-of-life crimes, they said, were Tipping Points for violent crime.

Malcolm Gladwell

#8. Mosca had come armed with a rich pack of lies, ready to pick whichever seemed to suit Goshawk's mood best. Under the wintry draught of his gaze, however, she felt most of them wither away in her hands.

Frances Hardinge

#9. There was no way that I would admit that I wouldn't have minded sharing a room with Riley. Regardless of how annoyed and frustrated I was with his behavior, I still felt safer with him close by.

Ivy Sinclair

#10. Most revolutions start small and simmer under the surface gathering strength, adding to an ideology, gaining favourable opinion- first as a
credible alternative and then as the majority view

Gyan Nagpal

#11. One Ad is worth more to a paper than forty Editorials.

Will Rogers

#12. If you knew the immensity of what it means to be human, you would not talk about God or Heaven.

Jaggi Vasudev

#13. Raising money to pay the cost of war was to cause more damage to 14th century society than the physical destruction of war itself.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#14. Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale." - Hans Christian Andersen

Laura Kenyon

#15. Every vote for a governing office is an instrument for enslaving me.

M. E. Lazarus

#16. You need to eat, but you don't really need to eat filet mignon every night or buy bottles of champagne at a thousand a pop.

Gene Simmons

#17. On the day that Raphael crossed the border, the seas had turned a violent impossible blue, as had every river and every lake across the world. Even the rain that fell from the sky was a glorious blue, and when it shattered, it left behind a sparkling residue, faceted diamond dust in the palm

Nalini Singh

#18. Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King are great examples of fantastic nonviolents who died violently. I can never work that out. We're pacifists, but I'm not sure what it means when you're such a pacifist that you get shot. I can never understand that.

John Lennon

#19. Avoidance is never the answer. Yes, life is all about pain and trouble and frustration and anger, but it's also about love and friendship and good days and sunshine. You can't have one without the other. If you avoid pain, you avoid living.

M. Leighton

#20. Lost time is never found again, and what we call time enough, always proves little enough.

Benjamin Franklin

#21. As we abide in sleep, intuitively resonating with the sum of all our experiences - this life and beyond - we gain refreshing perspective on our efforts and have an opportunity to remember what we know.

Henry Reed

#22. Something was happening to the five, however. Battered by the chance collision of several billion molecules, the die flipped onto a point, spun gently and came down a seven. Blind Io picked up the cube and counted the sides. "Come on," he said wearily. "Play fair.

Terry Pratchett

#23. 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