Real change occurs from the bottom up; it occurs person to person, and it almost always occurs in sm...
PAUL HAWKEN It is possible for the assembly-line worker consigned to tightening the bolts on the transmission an...
PAUL HAWKEN The luck of having talent is not enough; one must also have a talent for luck.
PAUL HAWKEN As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.
PAUL HAWKEN The first rule of sustainability is to align with natural forces, or at least not try to defy them.
PAUL HAWKEN Money and prices and markets don't give us exact information about how much our suburbs, freeway...
PAUL HAWKEN Biological diversity is messy. It walks, it crawls, it swims, it swoops, it buzzes. But extinction i...
PAUL HAWKEN Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive tha...
PAUL HAWKEN Class of 2009: you are going to have to figure out what it means to be a human being on Earth at a t...
PAUL HAWKEN We need to revise our economic thinking to give full value to our natural resources. This revised ec...
PAUL HAWKEN All is connected... no one thing can change by itself.
PAUL HAWKEN Interestingly, the oil companies know very well that in less than 30 years they will not only be cha...
PAUL HAWKEN Commercial institutions, proud of their achievements, do not see that healthy living systems - clean...
PAUL HAWKEN When cattle ranchers clear rain forests to raise beef to sell to fast-food chains that make hamburge...
PAUL HAWKEN Sustainability, ensuring the future of life on Earth, is an infinite game, the endless expression of...
PAUL HAWKEN Hindered by asthma since I was six weeks old, I had begun experimenting with my diet and discovered ...
PAUL HAWKEN We're trained to see the world in terms of charismatic organizations and charismatic people. Tha...
PAUL HAWKEN That appropriation of resources and the transformation of them into goods and services through the E...
PAUL HAWKEN Throughout the industrial era, economists considered manufactured capital - money, factories, etc. -...
PAUL HAWKEN You can print money to bail out a bank, but you can't print life to bail out a planet.
PAUL HAWKEN Natural capital is easy to overlook because it is the pond we swim in. One can live perfectly well w...
PAUL HAWKEN Information from destructive activities going back a hundred years right up until today is being inc...
PAUL HAWKEN When you pollute a river, it's a supreme injustice to those who are downstream and those who liv...
PAUL HAWKEN For the developed world, there is a choice to be made: to promote economic policies that despoil ind...
PAUL HAWKEN I doubt very much that the chief executives of any of the Fortune 500 corporations can name five edi...
PAUL HAWKEN Everything is connected... no one thing can change by itself.
PAUL HAWKEN I think an old style of addressing environmental problems is ebbing, but the rise of the so-called c...
PAUL HAWKEN Most floods are caused by man, not weather; deforestation, levee construction, erosion, and overgraz...
PAUL HAWKEN That inefficiency is masked because growth and progress are measured in money, and money does not gi...
PAUL HAWKEN Really, the proper study of economics is fulfilment, not consumption... It doesn't even matter i...
PAUL HAWKEN The atmosphere does not fathom whether CO2 comes from U.S. oil or Chinese coal, nor do hurricanes lo...
PAUL HAWKEN Somewhere along the way to free-market capitalism, the United States became the most wasteful societ...
PAUL HAWKEN We assume that everything's becoming more efficient, and in an immediate sense that's true; ...
PAUL HAWKEN People are naming it the Third Wave, the Information Age, etc. but I would say those are basically t...
PAUL HAWKEN Ralph Waldo Emerson once asked what we would do if the stars only came out once every thousand years...
PAUL HAWKEN There is no cost difference between incarceration and an Ivy League education; the main difference i...
PAUL HAWKEN What I see everywhere in the world are ordinary people willing to confront despair, power, and incal...
PAUL HAWKEN This planet came with a set of instructions, but we seem to have misplaced them. Civilization needs ...
PAUL HAWKEN Local companies don't have to internalize their costs, and few actually do, but they tend to mor...
PAUL HAWKEN We have to ask ourselves, 'What kind of world is it where a baby-food executive substitutes arti...
PAUL HAWKEN The responses that environmentalists evoke - fear, anxiety, numbness, despair - are not helpful, eve...
PAUL HAWKEN When asked if I am pessimistic or optimistic about the future, my answer is always the same: If you ...
PAUL HAWKEN We have the capacity to create a remarkably different economy: one that can restore ecosystems and p...
PAUL HAWKEN Enslaving each other was what human beings had done for ages. And the abolitionist movement was gree...
PAUL HAWKEN Thus, the forces and value systems that are most threatened by this shift are becoming the most cohe...
PAUL HAWKEN Wrong is an addictive, repetitive story; Right is where the movement is.
PAUL HAWKEN If you look at the science that describes what is happening on earth today and aren't pessimistic, y...
PAUL HAWKEN We are losing our living systems, social systems, cultural systems, governing systems, stability, an...
PAUL HAWKEN And also, more and more businesses really want to do the right thing. They feel better about themsel...
PAUL HAWKEN My first paying job might have been doing a play, actually. My mom paid me to dress up as a flounder...
PAUL DANO We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they ...
PAUL TILLICH Show class, have pride, and display character. If you do, winning takes care of itself.
PAUL BRYANT Mr. President how long must women wait to get their liberty? Let us have the rights we deserve.
ALICE PAUL The shortage of buyers, which the world is suffering from, is readily understood, not as due to peop...
PAUL DIRAC I do not see how a man can work on the frontiers of physics and write poetry at the same time. They ...
PAUL DIRAC It seems that if one is working from the point of view of getting beauty in one's equations, and...
PAUL DIRAC I should like to suggest to you that the cause of all the economic troubles is that we have an econo...
PAUL DIRAC In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that n...
PAUL DIRAC Pick a flower on Earth and you move the farthest star.
PAUL DIRAC Civilisation was built around wheat, around people settling down and not being nomadic. Baking is on...
PAUL HOLLYWOOD As an opinion manager, a campaign consultant, fixing personality negatives is a lot easier than fixi...
PAUL MANAFORT What we know about the global financial crisis is that we don't know very much.
PAUL SAMUELSON No matter where you put me, I don't care if it is North Carolina, Florida, California, New York ...
CHRIS PAUL The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and...
JEAN PAUL If my son is happy, then I am happy.
CHRIS PAUL A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.
PAUL VALERY Each one of my budgets has taken a meat axe to foreign aid, because I think we ought to quit sending...
RAND PAUL I don't think I've ever used the word 'gay rights,' because I don't really belie...
RAND PAUL Does the owner of the restaurant own his restaurant? Or does the government own his restaurant?
RAND PAUL People say America is exceptional. I agree, but it's not the complexion of our skin or the twist...
RAND PAUL I think public awareness of how good vaccines are for kids and how they are good for public health i...
RAND PAUL Some Libertarians argue that Western occupation fans the flames of radical Islam; I agree. But I don...
RAND PAUL You can't solve a dignity problem with military force.
RAND PAUL As a Christian, I believe in redemption. And I believe in second chances.
RAND PAUL Mandatory minimum sentencing has disproportionately affected blacks, Hispanics and others who often ...
RAND PAUL How will we defend ourselves if the Patriot Act expires? Well, perhaps we could just rely on the Con...
RAND PAUL We must always embrace individual liberty and enforce the constitutional rights of all Americans-ric...
RAND PAUL The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world. Many of those people deserve to b...
RAND PAUL The government has a history of not treating people fairly, from the internment of Japanese American...
RAND PAUL The defeat of Obamacare will come from the realization that the very idea of a government-administer...
RAND PAUL If our freedom is taken, the American dream will wither and die.
RAND PAUL I grew up in a family that despised not only communism but collectivism, socialism, and any 'ism...
RAND PAUL Naples is curiously chaotic and, if I'm honest, a bit dilapidated. It certainly has a 'lived...
PAUL HOLLYWOOD How did we win the election in the year 2000? We talked about a humble foreign policy: No nation-bui...
RON PAUL There is nothing wrong with describing Conservatism as protecting the Constitution, protecting all t...
RON PAUL You don't have freedom because you are a hyphenated American; you have freedom because you are a...
RON PAUL The obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our liberty, not coddle the worl...
RON PAUL Capitalism should not be condemned, since we haven't had capitalism.
RON PAUL All initiation of force is a violation of someone else's rights, whether initiated by an individ...
RON PAUL When the federal government spends more each year than it collects in tax revenues, it has three cho...
RON PAUL Our country's founders cherished liberty, not democracy.
RON PAUL You wanna get rid of drug crime in this country? Fine, let's just get rid of all the drug laws.
RON PAUL Maybe we ought to consider a Golden Rule in foreign policy: Don't do to other nations what we do...
RON PAUL What is not conservative about saying, 'Don't go to war unless we go to war properly with a ...
RON PAUL Well, I don't think we should go to the moon. I think we maybe should send some politicians up t...
RON PAUL 1913 wasn't a very good year. 1913 gave us the income tax, the 16th amendment and the IRS.
RON PAUL If you like small government you need to work hard at having a strong national defense that is not s...
RON PAUL When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads.
RON PAUL The moral and constitutional obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our lib...
RON PAUL There is only one kind of freedom and that's individual liberty. Our lives come from our creator...
RON PAUL Legitimate use of violence can only be that which is required in self-defense.
RON PAUL Exploiting people's emotions of fear, envy and anxiety is not hope, it's not change, it'...
PAUL RYAN For the most ambitious young people, the corporate ladder is obsolete.
PAUL GRAHAM I only think about the pitch. I want to do great. I want to be one of the best. I want to win titles...
PAUL POGBA Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two to...
PAUL CEZANNE A winner never whines.
PAUL BROWN We'll lose more species of plants and animals between 2000 and 2065 than we've lost in the l...
PAUL WATSON Hey, I'm like the Wayne Gretsky of the entertainment biz - I have other people do my dirty work ...
PAUL FEIG If one takes pride in one's craft, you won't let a good thing die. Risking it through not pu...
PAUL KEATING Baking is therapy.
PAUL HOLLYWOOD Baking can be done with a few simple ingredients, so it's about simplicity and nostalgia - peopl...
PAUL HOLLYWOOD When it comes to wildfires, 2013 wasn't a good year, which is why I'm especially proud that ...
PAUL GOSAR It isn't hard to find injustice around us, but we must not let injustice smear the good deeds th...
RAND PAUL Immigration is one of the leading contributors to population growth.
PAUL WATSON Whatever I'm working on, the character I'm playing tends to slowly bleed into my own real li...
PAUL RUDD It is one thing to photograph people. It is another to make others care about them by revealing the ...
PAUL STRAND I am absolutely opposed to a national ID card. This is a total contradiction of what a free society ...
RON PAUL The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner struc...
PAUL VALERY There are souls which fall from heaven like flowers, but ere they bloom are crushed under the foul t...
JEAN PAUL If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.
PAUL MCCARTNEY Dressing up is inevitably a substitute for good ideas. It is no coincidence that technically inept b...
PAUL GRAHAM Winter is a season of recovery and preparation.
PAUL THEROUX When I was in the Peace Corps I never made a phone call. I was in Central Africa; I didn't make ...
PAUL THEROUX It is usually expensive and lonely to be principled.
PAUL THEROUX Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with su...
PAUL THEROUX Travel magazines are just one cupcake after another. They're not about travel. The travel magazi...
PAUL THEROUX When I started writing, I did have some idealised notion of my dad as a writer. But I have less and ...
PAUL THEROUX An island is a fixed and finite piece of geography, and usually the whole place has been carved up a...
PAUL THEROUX Because of my capacity for listening to strangers' tales, or the details of their lives, my pati...
PAUL THEROUX Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going.
PAUL THEROUX A place that doesn't welcome tourists, that's really difficult and off the map, is a place I...
PAUL THEROUX Hawaii is not a state of mind, but a state of grace.
PAUL THEROUX Friendship is also about liking a person for their failings, their weakness. It's also about mut...
PAUL THEROUX I am happy being what I am.
PAUL THEROUX I like the idea of isolation, I like the idea of solitude. You can be connected and have a phone and...
PAUL THEROUX The meaning of life is not to be discovered only after death in some hidden, mysterious realm; on th...
PAUL KURTZ As a child I found railroad stations exciting, mysterious, and even beautiful, as indeed they often ...
PAUL JOHNSON The British are coming. One if by land, two if by sea.
PAUL REVERE Hunting is not a sport. In a sport, both sides should know they're in the game.
PAUL RODRIGUEZ A man who is 'of sound mind' is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key.
PAUL VALERY As an artist I come to sing, but as a citizen, I will always speak for peace, and no one can silence...
PAUL ROBESON The most important element of a free society, where individual rights are held in the highest esteem...
RON PAUL Justifying conscription to promote the cause of liberty is one of the most bizarre notions ever conc...
RON PAUL Things changed with the discovery of neutron stars and black holes - objects with gravitational fiel...
PAUL DAVIES The Republican Party's history is rich and chock full of emancipation and black history.
RAND PAUL Big and oppressive government has long been the enemy of freedom, something black Americans know all...
RAND PAUL My style of comedy is very real and bittersweet, and sort of always on the verge of kind of being tr...
PAUL FEIG I love Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath and Guns N' Roses and AC/DC.
PAUL DANO Segregation never brought anyone anything except trouble.
PAUL HARRIS Now, actors get so familiarized with Eastern Europe. I never imagined I'd get as familiar with B...
PAUL GIAMATTI Putin must be punished for violating the Budapest Memorandum, and Russia must learn that the U.S. wi...
RAND PAUL A capitalist economy hums when leading businessmen are bubbling with animal spirits and are prepared...
PAUL JOHNSON I don't care if you're a Republican or a Democrat, there is something profoundly un-American...
RAND PAUL I can still remember the feel in my hand of that most wonderful American coin ever minted, a nickel ...
PAUL ENGLE Since I do not believe that there should be different recommendations for people living in the Bronx...
PAUL FARMER The drink? Yes, I've had tough times in my life, especially the last year, regarding my ex-wife,...
PAUL GASCOIGNE The human rights community has focused very narrowly on political and civil rights for many decades,...
PAUL FARMER Man is this plural and collective unity in which the unity of destination and the differences of des...
PAUL RICœUR Speaking personally as a filmmaker, I think encoded in Bond are a series of values about Britain, ab...
PAUL GREENGRASS Wait, we can not break bread with you. You have taken the land which is rightfully ours. Years from ...
PAUL RUDNICK I think I am typical in believing that the Peace Corps trained us brilliantly and then did little mo...
PAUL THEROUX Brighton gives me the heebie-jeebies. When I'm near the seafront I can't sleep, I can't ...
PAUL MCGANN I decided that the University of Sussex in Brighton was a good place for this work because it had a ...
PAUL NURSE I thought I was a hippie, bro. I wore Birkenstocks every day. I went to a Christian high school, so ...
PAUL WALKER I'm Brian a lot more than I'm Paul Walker, which is awesome. When I hear, 'Hey Paul Walk...
PAUL WALKER They get the faceless bureaucrats in Brussels and Strasbourg who have ruled and told the Brits how t...
PAUL MANAFORT What happened with Brexit was people taking back control.
PAUL MANAFORT We're close to losing our essential diversity. Look at our wheat crops - we rely on a handful of...
PAUL WATSON Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.
PAUL SCHERER Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a t...
PAUL VALERY The future, like everything else, is not what it used to be.
PAUL VALERY Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the at...
PAUL VALERY A man's true secrets are more secret to himself than they are to others.
PAUL VALERY The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best.
PAUL VALERY War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other...
PAUL VALERY Serious-minded people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious.
PAUL VALERY Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name.
JEAN PAUL My family is delighted every time I cook maitake. Our taste buds awaken in anticipation of its rich,...
PAUL STAMETS If someone made fun of me, I'd be bummed out. But I'd play it like I thought it was hilariou...
PAUL RUDD Bulk collection of phone records didn't find or stop the Tsarnaev brothers from the massacre in ...
RAND PAUL The building block of every community is family.
PAUL SINGER Having federal officials, whether judges, bureaucrats, or congressmen, impose a new definition of ma...
RON PAUL The fictional world seems larger, seems to have more dimension and richness when, for example, the p...
PAUL HARDING I can take pot or leave it. I got busted in Japan for it. I was nine days without it and there wasn&...
PAUL MCCARTNEY And if small businesspeople say they made it on their own, all they are saying is that nobody else w...
PAUL RYAN I used to say in the cabinet room, 'confidence is not like a can of Popeye spinach - you can'...
PAUL KEATING Social media allows comics to bypass the gatekeepers and connect directly with people who will want ...
PAUL PROVENZA What I tell founders is not to sweat the business model too much at first. The most important task a...
PAUL GRAHAM I look a lot busier than I am, as I'm actually a rather sporadic, random person and I'll pla...
PAUL MCCARTNEY Japan, Germany, and India seem to me to have serious writers, readers, and book buyers, but the Neth...
PAUL THEROUX Women comedy is different than men comedy. Guy comedy is very aggressive, it's about insulting e...
PAUL FEIG When my dog Buster died, I couldn't get over it. I was in bits.
PAUL O'GRADY I read every book about Buster Keaton and Chaplin to see how they worked - it's all about dedica...
PAUL MERTON There's something magical about film, it's the ultimate for me, because it's kind of per...
PAUL MERTON If you look on the fungal genome as being soldier candidates protecting the U.S. as our host defense...
PAUL STAMETS The point is - that Donald Trump has been making on the campaign trail is that he's financing hi...
PAUL MANAFORT Donald Trump's whole candidacy from the time he started has been filled with myths by the media ...
PAUL MANAFORT If you're running for president, you've got to do a lot of things to line up a candidacy. I&...
PAUL RYAN The secret to understanding me is, I'm not trying to be anybody other than who I actually am. Pe...
PAUL RYAN If any country was a mine-shaft canary for the reintroduction of cholera, it was Haiti - and we knew...
PAUL FARMER