Paul Gilding famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

When you are surrounded by something so big that requires you to change everything about the way you think and see the world, then denial is the natural response. But the longer we wait, the bigger the response required.
-- Paul Gilding

#Thinking #Waiting #World
We can choose this moment of crisis to ask and answer the big questions of society's evolution â€” like, what do we want to be when we grow up?
-- Paul Gilding

#Growing Up #Answers #Want
If sustainability is going to take hold in the corporate sector in a big way - and we need it to - it will be when it produces big profits and faster growth. It won't happen because of an optional executive commitment to an abstract concept. It will happen because sustainability is a great business strategy. And it is
-- Paul Gilding

#Business #Commitment #Growth
It takes a good crisis to get us going. When we feel fear and we fear loss we are capable of quite extraordinary things.
-- Paul Gilding

#Loss #Crisis #Feels
Thanks to those pesky laws of physics, when things aren't sustainable, they stop.
-- Paul Gilding

#Law #Thanks #Physics
The Earth doesn't care what we need; Mother Nature doesn't negotiate.
-- Paul Gilding

#Mother #Earth #Care
The four words that will define this century: The Earth is full.
-- Paul Gilding

#Four #Earth #Century
Our system - of debt-fueled economic growth, of ineffective democracy, of overloading planet Earth - is eating itself alive.
-- Paul Gilding

#Inspirational #Motivational #Growth

Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there really is another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think of it. And then he feels that perhaps there isn't.
Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.
I will definitely attempt to sail around the world again. In fact, I can't wait for the chance to try again.
I'm not here to perform. I'm here to sign autographs. You have to wait till I come back with my own hand.
Wait a minute, I'm a fan of yours; you can't be a fan of mine!
Maybe some are so busy waiting, they forget what indescribable beauty is right there in front of them.
By bringing current events into the classroom, everyday discussion, and social media, maybe we don't need to wait for our grandchildren's questions to remind us we should have paid more attention to current events.
I am not a pessimist but a pejorist (as George Eliot said she was not an optimist but a meliorist); and that philosophy is founded on my observation of the world, not on anything so trivial and irrelevant as personal history.
I thought religion would make me live with my head in the clouds, but as often as not, it grounds me in this world.
It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to me through newspapers. Homicide, adultery, no-hit pitching, and Balkanism were concepts that, left to my own devices, I would have encountered much later in life.

Paul Gilding famous quotes

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