Garreau Joel Quotes & Sayings

The inflection point at which we have arrived is one in which we are increasingly seizing the keys to all creation, as astonding as that might seem. — Joel Garreau

He rises a copy of a poster. On the left is a quote from The New York Times dated October 9, 1903. It says,'The flying machine which will really fly might be evolved by the combined and continuous efforts of mathematicians in from one million to ten million years'. On the right is a quote from Orville Wright's diary, dated October 9, 1903. 'We started assembly today' it says. — Joel Garreau

We are at an inflection point in history. — Joel Garreau

Informing all of Carson's work was the idea that although human beings are part of nature, we are distinguished by our power to alter it irreversibly. — Joel Garreau

There are three levels of happiness: the pleasant life, the good life, and the meaningful life. — Joel Garreau

When he was younger, he used the slightest opportunity to slip away from people, without his being able to understand very clearly why he did so: a longing to break free and to breathe in the fresh air? — Patrick Modiano

The theory of meaning says that joining and serving in things larger than you that you believe in while using your highest strengths is a recipe for meaning. — Joel Garreau

Today the story is no less attitude-adjusting. It is about the defining cultural, social and political issue of our age. It is about human transformation. — Joel Garreau

Dwight D. Eisenhower changed America forever with the creation of the interstate highway program. — Joel Garreau

Was this, I wondered, what it felt like to be a grown-up? Did you always feel the weight of things on you, your cares pressing you down like a burden you could never shake? No wonder Peter could fly. He had no worries to weight him to the earth. — Christina Henry

Swarmers run the risk of skittering like water bugs on the surface of life. By being quickly and constantly connected, they can avoid deep contact in time-consuming and meaningful ways ... You're flitting from one place to another. You're more likely to pursue superficial engagements rather than deep pursuits. It contributes to this certain MTV approach to life where you engage in something for a few minutes and then there's a commercial ... You have to get a grip on reality. Unless you know what is real-what is a real friendship and relationship-neither can have an effect on you. — Joel Garreau

In order for the Prevail Scenario to work ... you will have to have a world in which you have both differences between people and opportunities for intense connectedness. — Joel Garreau

Some entrepreneurs have a bad habit of taking personal credit for all improvements and innovations at their startups. If you penalize or ignore employee initiatives, you can be certain that they won't be repeated, and motivation for more conventional performance will suffer. — Martin Zwilling

It is time to rekindle the spirit of the Renaissancee to achieve a golden age that will be a turning point for human productivity and quality of life. — Joel Garreau

The difference between a path and a road is not only the obvious one. A path is little more than a habit that comes with knowledge of a place. It is a sort of ritual of familiarity. As a form, it is a form of contact with a known landscape. It is not destructive. It is the perfect adaptation, through experience and familiarity, of movement to place; it obeys the natural contours; such obstacles as it meets it goes around. — Wendell Berry

Litigation is a tool used by negotiators. — Gerard I. Nierenberg

God gives us these raw, little people, and we have to form them and mold them and teach them how to operate in society. And if we get a glimpse of all the ugliness that lies right beneath our own polished surface? Well, then, there's a humbling lesson too. It's those moments when I realize I have to extend grace to Caroline as she figures these things out by trial and error in the same way God lavishes me with mercy, even as I make the same mistakes over and over again. — Melanie Shankle

No man can be convinced when he will not. — Robert E. Howard

Humankind's constant effort to fix its shortcomings is what drives human history. — Joel Garreau

The essence of being human is being creative. — Joel Garreau

I try to not make safe choices, but I also like to do stuff which is interesting and is sort of exciting in some way and accessible. — Steve Coogan

The physician who waits until dead certain of a diagnosis before acting is likely to wind up with a dead patient. Sometimes things develop so rapidly that only early action-back when you're still somewhat uncertain-stands a chance of being effective, as in catching cancer before it metastasizes. — Joel Garreau

The Harvard Law of Animal Behavior holds that under controlled experimental conditions of temperature, time, lighting, feeding, and training, the organism will behave as it damn well pleases. — Joel Garreau

I always like to take my time and examine the two candidates, see not only the two candidates but the policies they will bring in, the people they will bring in, who they might appoint to the Supreme Court, and look at the whole range of issues before making a decision. — Colin Powell

The next frontier is our own selves. — Joel Garreau

Transcendence is the only real alternative to extinction. This is serious. This may be the ultimate final exam. — Joel Garreau

The only reason Toronto is no longer the dullest city on earth is that it is no longer full of Anglo-Canadians. It is full of Hong Kong Chinese. And not a few Italians. — Joel Garreau

The hallmark of the Renaissance was its holistic quality as all fields of art, engineering, science and culture shared the same exciting spirit and many of the same intellectual principles. — Joel Garreau

There is one thing we know about meaning, that meaning consists in attachment to something bigger than you are. The larger the thing that you can credibly attach yourself to, the more meaning you get out of life. — Joel Garreau

I don't know when my time on earth will be up; but I DO know that today, I am one day closer. You can bet I'm going to make this day count! Will you? — Steve Maraboli

Faith strikes me as intellectual laziness. — Robert A. Heinlein