"I'd rather fail at something important than succeed……" — Paul Hawken
"I'd rather fail at something important than succeed at something trivial."
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98 Quotes by Paul Hawken
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The future belongs to those who understand that doing more with less is compassionate, prosperous, and enduring, and thus more…
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The great thing about the dilemma we're in is that we get to re-imagine every single thing we do...There isn't…
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When the planes still swoop down and aerial spray a field in order to kill a predator insect with pesticides,…
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We are the only species on this planet without full employment.
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People are naming it the Third Wave, the Information Age, etc. but I would say those are basically technological descriptions,…
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Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get…
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What I see everywhere in the world are ordinary people willing to confront despair, power, and incalculable odds in order…
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Inspiration is not garnered from the litanies of what may befall us; it resides in humanity's willingness to restore, redress,…
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Don't be put off by people who know what is not possible. Do what needs to be done, and check…
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We subsidize the disposal of waste in all its myriad forms from landfills to Superfund cleanups, from deep-well injection to…
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If they [companies] believe they are in business to serve people, to help solve problems, to use and employ the…
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We have an economy that tells us it is cheaper to destroy earth in real time rather than renew, restore,…
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Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they…
— Richard Armour
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Alas, all traditions lose their primal purity and we all fail our founders.
— Karen Armstrong
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Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail…
— Johann Arndt
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If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do…
— John James Audubon
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All relationships change the brain - but most important are the intimate bonds that foster or fail us, altering the…
— Diane Ackerman
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It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found - not hidden away in corners but in the…
— Teresa of Avila
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Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.
— Lester Bangs
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We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.
— Robert Baden-Powell
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A movie star is someone people look at and go, 'I want to be like that person'. There's the responsibility…
— Christian Bale
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Economy, prudence, and a simple life are the sure masters of need, and will often accomplish that which, their opposites,…
— Clara Barton
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We're giving our freedoms away. The American experiment was about freedom. Freedom to be stupid, freedom to fail, freedom to…
— Glenn Beck
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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
— Samuel Beckett
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