Bill Gates Quotes

The barrier to change is not too little caring; it is too much complexity. To turn caring into action, we need to see a problem, see a solution, and see the impact. But complexity blocks all three steps.

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  Sam Kean
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• We have a structural problem because you can simultaneously understand the medium to long-term risks of climate change and also come to the conclusion that it is in your short-term economic interest to invest in oil and gas. Which is why, you know, anybody who tells you that the market is going to fix this on its own is lying to you.

  

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• My parents' divorce made an important change in my life. It affected me.

  

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• That's the problem with having a bald head. It exaggerates the shape.

  

  Karl Pilkington
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• You start to become successful, and everybody starts to drive your money train to the bank, and they're not thinking anymore about what you want as an artist or if any of that even matters to you. It genuinely upsets people in my life that I don't care about money, and that's not my problem.

  

  Lady Gaga
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• We will do everything to change what needs to be changed, fight against recession so that the country meets its targets, while reinforcing our country in the heart of the euro and the European Union.

  

  Yannis Stournaras
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• Conservatives were sure that if you eliminated welfare for single moms, it would eliminate - or at lease greatly reduce - single motherhood. So in 1996 we had welfare reform. Did not change the trend in the least. Soon half of all babies will be born out of wedlock.

  

  Gail Collins
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• The American Dream is that any man or woman, despite of his or her background, can change their circumstances and rise as high as they are willing to work.

  

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• The storm came. Lives were washed away. Ancient pains resurfaced. Now it is time for a sea of change.

  

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• In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.

  

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• The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.

  

  Carl Rogers
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• The abortion industry can try to improve its 'messaging' all it wants. But unless abortion advocates change their devotion to abortion-on-demand, the only message Americans will receive is that the abortion industry is only really interested in improving its bottom line at the expense of the most defenseless among us.

  

  Gary Bauer
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• My scientific work is much more practically minded - to change something, to effect something. And the music I do is much more soft power, about changing minds.

  

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• Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences.

  

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• Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
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• Many, many, many small moves of many kinds can bring a way to manage change. The theory can come later.

  

  Flora Lewis
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• I didn't invent satire. I didn't come up with it. And it will continue to be a very powerful tool to disrupt political taboos and social taboos and religious taboos, because those taboos are always used to control and to curb people's way of creativity and thinking, by making them feel guilty because they want to make a change.

  

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• As soon as I put my foot on Indian soil, my painting underwent a change not only in subject and spirit but in technique.

  

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• I'm an old rock and roll buff. I love Bruce Springsteen and Tom Petty.

  

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• We have to create conditions where people feel safe to feel and to care. That goes against a lot of our programming about how to make something change in the world. Sometimes you can pressure people into changing, you can force them, but the powers-that-be have more force than we do. I don't think we're going to win in a contest of force. I think we need to induce a change of heart. The narrative of "us versus them" is ultimately part of the problem. Traditional activism, which is about overcoming the latest bad guy, isn't deep enough. It just brings us another version of the same.

  

  Charles Eisenstein
  • World
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• What I found when I became Secretary of State was a lot of doubts and a lot of concerns and fears from friends, allies, around the world.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • World
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• Believe and be confirmed.

  

  John Milton
  • Believed
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• The barrier to change is not too little caring; it is too much complexity. To turn caring into action, we need to see a problem, see a solution, and see the impact. But complexity blocks all three steps.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Change
  • Problem
  • Solution