Tipping quotes
34 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"As in the case of making a mound, if, before the very last basketful, I stop, then I shall have stopped. As in the case of leveling the ground, if, though tipping only one basketful, I am going forward, then I shall be making progress."
"There are exceptional people out there who are capable of starting epidemics. All you have to do is find them."
"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."
"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."
"We are facing a tipping point of environmental crisis unprecedented in human history and our very survival is dependent on protecting nature."
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"It's not tipping I believe in. It's overtipping."
