Notable Quotations

by Justin Manger on January 15th, 2010

Instead of the usual Five Friday Facts, here are five thought provoking quotations. Feel free to comment and add to the collection.

“The significant problems we face cannot be solved with the same level of thinking we used to create them.”

– Albert Einstein

“Now there is one outstanding important fact regarding spaceship earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it. We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.”

– Buckminster Fuller

“We’re trying to do good. And we’re trying to make money. The more money we make, the more good we can do.”

– John Mackey, Whole Foods Market CEO, as quoted by The New Yorker

“Three hundred trout are needed to support one man for a year. The trout, in turn, must consume 90,000 frogs, that must consume 27 million grasshoppers that live off of 1,000 tons of grass.”

– G. Tyler Miller, Jr., American Chemist (1971) LINK

“So I’m optimistic, because I’ve seen how much progress we’ve made. If we can just get people to become more conscious about what capitalism is, because I think capitalism is a tremendous force for positive change in the world, and take the collective human intelligence and creativity and begin to channel it in constructive ways, there’s really no limit to where humanity will be in the 21st century.”

– John Mackey, Whole Foods Market CEO, as quoted in reason

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Harold Manger

Here is one from Kurt Vonnegut, page 224 in Deadeye Dick

“To be is to do” – Socrates

“To do is to be” – Jean-Paul Sartre

“Do be do be do” – Frank Sinatra
Harold Manger

Here is another quote, this one from Pat Conroy, page 601 in Beach Music.

“Mama always taught her children that words were pretty, but anyone could talk. She said pay attention to that man or woman who acted, who did, who performed. She taught us to trust in things we could see, not what we heard.”

I applaud the two of you. Unlike many in the green movement you act, do, perform.
http://2ndgreenrevolution.com Eric Wilson

Harold,

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