Tipping Quotations

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.

People really feel that, when they go to the gas pump now, that the oil cartel is holding them by the legs and tipping them upside down and shaking money out of their pockets.

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

I always encourage over-tipping if you can afford it because share the wealth.

I'd rather be tipping cows in Tulsa, than hailing cabs here in New York.

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

The English language is like a broad river on whose bank a few patient anglers are sitting, while, higher up, the stream is being polluted by a string of refuse-barges tipping out their muck.

I think we could be at a tipping point

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

The urgency derives from the nearness of climate tipping points.

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.

[F]rank knew he was guilty of arrogance and misanthropy, but he compensated by being kind to strangers and tipping really well at restaurants.

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

There are exceptional people out there who are capable of starting epidemics. All you have to do is find them.

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.

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.

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.

For every reader who dies today, a viewer is born, and we seem to be witnessing . . . the final tipping balance.

It's not tipping I believe in. It's overtipping.

Of course it hurts", she grumbled, tipping my head further back. "Life sucks. Get over it

I'm tipping the hat and looking back.

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.

Doing the little things can make a big difference.