At turning points, future stops being like the past, large amounts of money — Howard Marks
A single act of courage is often the tipping point for extraordinary change. — Andy Stanley
There is at least one point in the history of any company when you have to change dramatically to rise to the next level of performance. Miss that moment - and you start to decline. — Andy Grove
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
From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached. — Franz Kafka
If the rate of change on the outside exceeds the rate of change on the inside, the end is near. — Jack Welch
Small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos can shift the whole system to a higher order. — Barbara Marx Hubbard
Opportunity arises when the gap between reality and perception becomes significant. — Francois Rochon
When the rate of change outside is more than what is inside, be sure that the end is near. — Azim Premji
It's when ordinary people rise above the expectations and seize the opportunity that milestones truly are reached. — Mike Huckabee
When the fear of staying the same outweighs the fear of change, that is when we change. —
There is a point in every contest when sitting on the sidelines is not an option. — Dean Smith
Therapy is often a matter of tipping the first domino. — Milton H. Erickson
What starts as a small win or a minor setback accumulates into something much more. — James Clear
All change starts with a distant rumble at the grassroots level. — Tom Coburn
Short Tipping Point Quotes
And that is how change happens. One gesture. One person. One moment at a time. — Libba Bray
There's a domino effect with certain things you say. — Johnny Vegas
When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change. — Unknown
When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge. — Tuli Kupferberg
Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed. — Cesar Chavez
Those who take action have a disproportionate impact. The power of one is to move many. — Elizabeth May
Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world. — Howard Zinn
In the final analysis, change sticks when it becomes the way we do things around here. — John P. Kotter
We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis. — David Rockefeller
Tipping Point Image Quotes
There comes a point in your life when you need to stop reading other people's book and write your own.
Important Quotes
One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life. — Kahlil Gibran
Decisions made in Washington are more important to us than those made here in Dar es-Salaam. So, maybe my people should be allowed to vote in American presidential elections. — Julius Nyerere
The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said. — Peter Drucker
Self-control is strength. Calmness is mastery. You have to get to a point where your mood doesn't shift based on the insignificant actions of someone else. Don't allow others to control the direction of your life. Don't allow your emotions to overpower your intelligence.
Courage: the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage. — Maya Angelou
Width of life is more important than length of life. — Avicenna
It's far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has. — Hippocrates
Watch your back, but more importantly when you get out the shower, dry your back. Its a cold world out there. — DJ Khaled
The Tipping Point Quotes
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
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
Objective evaluations set the foundation that moves leaders to the tipping point. — Quint Studer
Never push a loyal person to the point where they no longer give a damn.
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
We are on the precipice of climate system tipping points beyond which there is no redemption. — James Hansen
Do you think we're going to hit a tipping point and the world's going to end? — Eric Andre
Any fool can know. The point is to understand.
The tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire. — Malcolm Gladwell
Every day is an opportunity for a new life. Every day you stand at the tipping point of your life. And on any one day you can change the future – through the way that you feel. — Rhonda Byrne
The Band-Aid solution is actually the best kind of solution because it involves solving a problem with the minimum amount of effort and time and cost. — Malcolm Gladwell
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
What's The Point Quotes
I don't like a girl on social media, when you have an open inbox, answering questions from dudes left and right, every day. What's the point? It's like having your number all out. — Meek Mill
I we are born to die and we all die to live, then what's the point of living life if it just contradicts? — Ronnie Radke
Never regret something, because at one point everything you did was exactly what you wanted to do. And sometimes that's the hardest thing to realize. — Kid Cudi
Life's just one great journey. It's a road we travel as we go from point A to point B. What makes that journey worthwhile is the people we choose to travel with, the people we hold close as we take steps into the darkness and blindly make our way through life. They're the people who matter. — Dr. Seuss
Utopia is on the horizon. I move two steps closer; it moves two steps further away. I walk another ten steps and the horizon runs ten steps further away. As much as I may walk, I'll never reach it. So what's the point of utopia? The point is this: to keep walking. — Eduardo Galeano
Don’t worry about where to start. Remember, it’s the decisions you make, it’s the decision to get started it’s the decision to face possible failure, it’s the decision to get up once you’ve failed and it’s the decision of what to learn when you fail. — Tom Bilyeu
You either get the point of Africa or you don't. What draws me back year after year is that it's like seeing the world with the lid off. — A. A. Gill
Getting overly caught up in such minute details leads to burnout. And burnout always leads back to old habits. The name of the game is sustainability. And simply put, if it's too complicated, it's not sustainable. And if it's not sustainable, what's the point? — Rich Roll
It's good to be challenged, to keep moving forward, and keep being inspired and scared. I feel like, if you're not afraid of something, you shouldn't do it. If you're just coasting through things, what's the point? You're not learning. — Nina Dobrev
When you love someone you gotta trust them, there's no other way. You gotta give them the key to everything that's yours. Otherwise, what's the point? — Robert De Niro
No Point Quotes
I don't do regrets. Regrets are pointless. It's too late for regrets. You've already done it, haven't you? You've lived your life. No point wishing you could change it. — Lemmy Kilmister
Life without you is like a broken pencil, there's no point. — Tyga
There are long periods when life seems a small, dull round, a petty business with no point, and then suddenly we are caught up in some great event which gives us a glimpse of the solid and durable foundations of our existence. — Queen Elizabeth II
Brevity is the soul of command. Too much talking suggests desperation on the part of the leader. Speak shortly, decisively and to the point–and couch your desires in such natural logic that no one can raise objections. Then move on. — Cyrus the Great
Our apologies, good friends, for the fracture of good order, the burning of paper instead of children. How many must die before our voices are heard, how many must be tortured, dislocated, starved, maddened? When, at what point, will you say no to this war? — Daniel Berrigan
Are you too busy for improvement? Frequently, I am rebuffed by people who say they are too busy and have no time for such activities. I make it a point to respond by telling people, look, you’ll stop being busy either when you die or when the company goes bankrupt. — Shigeo Shingo
There's no point in being unhappy about growing older. Just think of the millions who have been denied the privilege. — Cary Grant
If I could tell you what it meant, there would be no point in dancing it — Isadora Duncan
Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
"Only the pots know the boiling points of the broths," she says as Tita weeps into the wedding batter she is making to celebrate the marriage of her sister to her own true love. — Laura Esquivel
I boil my tears in a twisted spoon
And dance like an angel on the point of a needle. — Etheridge Knight
An increase of tenderness always ended by boiling over and turning to indignation. He was at the point where we seek to adopt a course, and to accept what tears us apart. — Victor Hugo
The jobs crisis has reached a boiling point, which is why we see Occupy Wall Street protestors crying out for an America that lets all of us reach for the American Dream again - a dream that says if you work hard and play by the rules, you can have a good life and retire with dignity. — John Garamendi
All my life I've been dealing with my race because of where I grew up [Detroit] and being in the rap game. I'm at a boiling point...Anybody who pulls the race card is getting it right back in their face. — Eminem
Things are still in early stages, but one can imagine that as we build up and systematize our theories of these associations, and try to boil them down to their core, the result might point us toward the sort of fundamental principles I advocate. — David Chalmers
I know how to choke. Given even a splinter-thin opportunity to let my side down and destroy my own score, I will seize it. Not only does ice water not run through my veins, but what runs there has a boiling point lower than body temperature. — John Updike
The only vulnerable place in our armor is where we ourselves leave it exposed, because God has armed us at all points. He has made us impervious to outside attacks. But when we boil inside, destruction waits upon us. — Brigham Young, Jr.
And tears came before he could stop them, boiling hot then instantly freezing on his face, and what was the point in wiping them off? Or pretending? He let them fall. — J. K. Rowling
In a decade, America's mighty rivers will have reached the boiling point. — Edwin Newman
High Points Quotes
Every time you sustain a head injury, the risk gets higher and higher. I always said that if there ever was a point where the risk was more than minimal, I would stop playing. — Pat LaFontaine
It is highly possible that what is called 'talented behavior' is simply a greater individual capacity for experiencing. From this point of view, it is in the increasing of the individual capacity for experiencing that the untold potentiality of a personality can be evoked. — Viola Spolin
There was one point in high school actually when I was on the chess team, marching band, model United Nations and debate club all at the same time. And I would spend time with the computer club after school. And I had just quit pottery club, which I was in junior high, but I let that go. — Rainn Wilson
Stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau. I do not feel there will be soon if ever a 50 or 60 point break from present levels, such as (bears) have predicted. I expect to see the stock market a good deal higher within a few months. — Irving Fisher
The high point of my career was winning the Champions League. No one will ever erase that from my memory, in the same way that no one will ever erase the fact that I did it in a Manchester United shirt. — Cristiano Ronaldo
I quit high school on my birthday. It was my senior year and I didn't see the point. This was 1962, and I was ready to make music. — Barry White
If our eloquence be directed above the heads of our hearers, we shall do no execution. By pointing our arguments low, we stand a chance of hitting their hearts as well as their heads. In addressing angels, we could hardly raise our eloquence too high; but we must remember that men are not angels. — Charles Caleb Colton
The high point of civilization is that you can hate me and I can hate you but we develop an etiquette that allows us to deal with each other because if we acted solely upon our impulse we'd probably go to war. — Stanley Crouch
A bath and a tenderloin steak. Those are the high points of a man's life. — Curt Siodmak
With your spirit open and unconstricted, look at things from a high point of view. — Miyamoto Musashi
I drove an electric car for seven years because of its advanced technology, not because I have any concerns about energy resources. I have none at all. And when environmentalists say that global warming is dangerous, unprecedented and that we'll have a tipping point for atmospheric carbon dioxide, it's just nonsense. — Burt Rutan
When drawing the sun, try to have on hand colored paper, chalk, felt-tip markers, crayons, pencils, ball point pens. You can draw a sun with any one of them. Also remember that sunset and dawn are the back and front of the same phenomenon: when we are looking at the sunset, the people over there are looking at the dawn. — Bruno Munari
The points or tips of the chakras, where they connect to the main power current, are called the roots or the hearts of the chakras. Within these hearts are seals which control exchange of energy between layers of the aura through that chakra. That is, each of the seven chakras has seven layers, each corresponding to a layer of the auric field. — Barbara Brennan
We have, as human beings, a storytelling problem. We're a bit too quick to come up with explanations for things we don't really have an explanation for. — Malcolm Gladwell
When you have a vision of where you need to go, it sounds utopian. But when you get to the tipping point, your understanding switches. — Christiana Figueres
To be someone's best friend requires a minimum investment of time. More than that, though, it takes emotional energy. Caring about someone deeply is exhausting. — Malcolm Gladwell
My wildest tipping point moment came when I was introduced to Clint Eastwood. He was sitting there, typical Clint Eastwood, wearing a white T-shirt and jeans, holding a Budweiser. He looks at me and says, "I watch your show from time to time." I just stopped. I was like, "I can't even think about that. I'm not even sure if I'm happy about that." — Chris Harrison
That is the paradox of the epidemic: that in order to create one contagious movement, you often have to create many small movements first. — Malcolm Gladwell
There is a simple way to package information that, under the right circumstances, can make it irresistible. All you have to do is find it. — Malcolm Gladwell
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
If you want to bring a fundamental change in people's belief and behavior...you need to create a community around them, where those new beliefs can be practiced and expressed and nurtured. — Malcolm Gladwell
The final release point for the fastball is the tips of your fingers. — Steve Carlton
If you think of life and death on a continuum, finding the point where it tips is complicated. It cuts across all political lines and gets to the root of our humanity. It requires faith informed by years of intimacy that you're doing what's right for your loved one. — Eleanor Clift
We have to, in the next ten years, begin to decrease the rate of carbon dioxide emissions and then flatten it out. If that doesn't happen in ten years, we're going to be passing certain tipping points. If the ice sheets begin to disintegrate, what can you do about it? You can't tie a rope around an ice sheet. — James Hansen
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
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
There's a tipping point that happens with soccer in which you just kinda get it. I was drawn to it because the best soccer teams play similarly to my favorite basketball teams - like the eighties Lakers or eighties Celtics - teams that emphasized teamwork over individualism and relied on passing as their biggest ongoing edge. — Bill Simmons
It is those who are successful, in other words, who are most likely to be given the kinds of special opportunities that lead to further success. — Malcolm Gladwell
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
I'm building on purpose. I'm building that tipping point. I'm building that law of diffusion of innovation. — Simon Sinek
As people's access to the internet grows we're seeing the sharing economy boom - I think our obsession with ownership is at a tipping point and the sharing economy is part of the antidote for that. — Richard Branson
Acquaintances represent a source of social power, and the more acquaintances you have the more powerful you are. — Malcolm Gladwell
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
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
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
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
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
No one is suggesting that [violent video games are] the only reason they went out and committed those horrific acts, but was it a tipping point? Was it something that pushed them over the edge? Was it a factor in that? Perhaps. That's a really big deal. — Jim Steyer
Ideas and products and messages and behaviors spread just like viruses do. — Malcolm Gladwell
Doing the little things can make a big difference. — Yogi Berra
The answer is that the success of any kind of social epidemic is heavily dependent on the involvement of people with a particular and rare set of social gifts. — Malcolm Gladwell
The whole system is under tremendous strain. Although the increasing pace of change is essential for developing new solutions, it is also pushing society to its limits. In global structures, it all comes to a head in the form of sudden crises. This leads to tipping point situations in which the seemingly impossible becomes possible. — Franz Josef Radermacher
A book, I was taught long ago in English class, is a living and breathing document that grows richer with each new reading. — Malcolm Gladwell
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