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“Disruption never helps your cause. ... It just looks like you're afraid to have rational discussion.”

Looks Helping Causes Like You Rational Discussion Disruption

“Cartels have spread and will spread as long as the world lacks an effective mechanism by which balanced expansion may be achieved without a resulting disruption of prices.”

World May Long Spread Mechanism Balanced Expansion Disruption Cartels

Author:Benjamin Graham

“Technically speaking, since our complex societies are highly susceptible to interferences and accidents,they certainly offer ideal opportunities for a prompt disruption of normal activities. These disruptions can, with minimum expense, have considerably destructive consequences. Global terrorism is extreme both in its lack of realistic goals and in its cynical exploitation of the vulnerability of complex systems.”

“And there was some trouble with Oliver Cowdery, and whisper said it was relating to a girl then living in his family; and I was afterwards told by Warren Parish, that he himself and Oliver Cowdery did not that Joseph had Fannie Alger as wife, for they were spied upon and found together. And I can now see that at Nauvoo, so at Kirtland, that the suspicion or knowledge of the Prophet's plural relation was one of the causes of apostasy and disruption at Kirtland, although at the time there was little said publicly on the subject.”

Littles Said I Can Together Girl Found Causes Wife Trouble Subjects Relation Prophet Suspicion Disruption Polygamy Parish Apostasy

Author:Benjamin F. Johnson

“A moment of disruption is where the conversation about disruption often begins, even though determining that moment is entirely hindsight.”

Moments Conversation That Moment Disruption Hindsight

Author:Steven Sinofsky

“The pace of change and the threat of disruption creates tremendous opportunities.”

Opportunity Threat Pace Disruption Pace Of Change

Author:Steve Case

“I thought at the time of my parents' divorce that I was upset by deeper, more profound things and I was just taking it out on the joint custody agreement. But that disruption was bad enough. That was a huge deal for a teenager.”

Enough Parent Deals Huge Profound Deeper Divorce Teenager Upset Agreement Joints Disruption Custody Joint Custody Parents Divorce

Author:Noah Baumbach

“Now, here's a good question: should serious people focus on global political instability - terrorism, failing states, nuclear weapons - or should we focus on global climate instability - droughts, floods, extreme weather? Here's the correct answer: yes, both, because climate disruption will make every other national security problem worse.”

“Disruption is, at its core, a really powerful idea, but everyone hijacks the idea to do whatever they want now.”

Want Ideas Powerful Core Disruption Really Powerful

Author:Clayton Christensen

“The big opportunity - and where the most disruption is - is in local media.”

Bigs Opportunity Media Locals Disruption

Author:Vivian Schiller

“In America I think it's much more full of disruption culturally; it's much more mysterious how we inherit culture here. We grab it where we can find it - we're insatiable - and there can be a sense here that it's not available to you as readily as it is in other cultures.”

Thinking America Culture Available Mysterious Disruption Insatiable Other Cultures

Author:Sarah Ruhl

“Every single industry is going through a major business model and technology oriented disruption.”

Technology Building Industry Majors Models Disruption Business Models

Author:Aaron Levie

“I do think that the long poem speaks for an inner need for continuity. We live in a time of so many losses, disruptions, and distractions, that the need for a sense of the ongoing is quite real. The long poem is very satisfying in offering the psyche a model of coherence.”

Thinking Needs Long Real Speak Loss Models Satisfying Distraction Offering Ongoing Continuity Disruption Coherence

Author:Alison Hawthorne Deming

“Anything that is public display that will cause disruption to the beliefs of society of course would have to be curtailed.”

Courses Belief Causes Display Disruption

Author:Anwar Ibrahim

“Making really great music, making really great films, writing great books is an antidote to all of that. And, as people, as artists, some of the massive disruption that technology is causing is so exciting, the way that people can share creativity now.”

People Way Writing Book Film Artist Creativity Technology Share Exciting Massive Really Great Antidote Disruption Great Music Great Book Great Film Music Making Film Writing

Author:Edward Norton

“The U.S. couldn't play a military role in different areas like Iraq and Afghanistan without huge quantities of oil. So a shortage or disruption in oil would not only damage the U.S. economy; it would undercut American military supremacy.”

Different Play Roles Economy Military Huge Areas Iraq Oil Damage Afghanistan Quantity Disruption Shortage Supremacy American Military Undercut

Author:Michael Klare

“Service disruptions have to be avoided or at least resolved as quickly as possible. When the Internet goes down, consumers don't notice the difference between a technical malfunction, an act of sabotage by hackers or a military attack.”

Differences Military Internet Consumers Avoided Disruption Sabotage Hackers Malfunction

Author:Thomas de Maiziere

“The greenest fuels are the ones that contain the most energy per pound of material that must be mined, trucked, pumped, piped, and burnt. [In contrast], extracting comparable amounts of energy from the surface would entail truly monstrous environmental disruption.... The greenest possible strategy is to mine and to bury, to fly and to tunnel, to search high and low, where the life mostly isn't, and so to leave the edge, the space in the middle, living and green.”

Energy Space Middle Mines Materials Amount Lows Green Strategy Environmental Edges Surface Fuel Pounds Contrast Tunnels Monstrous Disruption Highs And Lows

Author:Peter W. Huber

“It's the idea held by generations of citizens who believed that America is a constant work in progress; who believed that loving this country requires more than singing its praises or avoiding uncomfortable truths. It requires the occasional disruption, the willingness to speak out for what's right, and shake up the status quo.”

Country Speak Singing Praise Uncomfortable Shakes Willingness Avoiding Status Quo Occasional Disruption Speaks Out

Author:Barack Obama

“If you always do what you did, you'll always get what you got.”

“The food you eat is among the most significant factors affecting your genes and pushing them toward cancer by causing mutation or disruption in their function. That is, what you eat can either prevent cancer and other chronic illnesses or help cause them.”

Helping Causes Function Cancer Illness Significant Factors Pushing Genes Disruption Chronic Illness Mutation

Book:Food As Medicine: How to Use Diet, Vitamins, Juices, and Herbs for a Healthier, Happier, and Longer Life

Source: Food As Medicine: How to Use Diet, Vitamins, Juices, and Herbs for a Healthier, Happier, and Longer Life

“This mandate that I seek is about continuity and sustainability against disruption and stagnation, about moving forward versus regressing. We have to safeguard what we have already achieved. We cannot put at risk what we have, we cannot gamble away our future.”

Moving Risk Moving Forward Our Future Sustainability Versus Continuity Gamble Disruption Mandates Stagnation

Author:Najib Razak

“When we concentrate on photography, we make it possible to see the walls of photographs in black homes as a critical intervention, a disruption of white control over black images.”

Home Black White Wall Photography Photograph Critical Intervention Disruption

Author:Bell Hooks

“When the Dodgers left, it was not only a loss of a team, it was the disruption of a social pattern. A total destruction of a culture.”

Culture Left Social Loss Team Destruction Patterns Disruption Dodgers

Author:Joe Flaherty

“Agents of disruption, subversion, sabotage and disinformation tunnelers and smugglers, listeners and forgers, trainers and recruiters and talent spotters and couriers and watchers and seducers, assassins and balloonists, lip readers and disguise artists.”

Artist Talent Reader Lips Agents Disguise Listeners Disruption Trainers Assassins Sabotage Watchers Subversion Smugglers

Author:John le Carre

“The only thing I can hope the viewer will get from the work is something about the structure of the work. It would be asking too much, I think, for them to get my exact intention. But if - through the construct of language, the way things are juxtaposed - there is some sort of disruption of the way you would normally go about reaching photographic images... if that is happening, that's fine.”

Ifs Thinking Way I Can Would Be Language Too Much Fine Happenings Asking Structure Intention Reaching Working It Viewers Constructs Disruption Asking Too Much

Author:Lorna Simpson

“I often had to pass over photographs because in a mass of animals invariably one would be wandering in the wrong direction, thereby disrupting the pattern I was trying to achieve. Today the ability to digitally alter this disruption is at hand.”

Trying Hands Would Be Today Ability Animal Achieve Mass Photograph Patterns Wander Disruption Wrong Direction

Author:Art Wolfe

“As a writer, I find holidays often disturbing, not liberating, in their disruption of tempo, their open-ended time.”

Holiday Disturbing Liberating Tempo Disruption

Book:The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life

Source: The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life

“When businesses go through hard times, through down markets, what do they do is they challenge every basic assumption of how they operate. They innovate. They create disruption for a while that leads them to even greater heights when the economy turns around.”

Hard Turns Challenges Economy Greater Height Assumption Hard Times Disruption Through Hard Times Greater Heights

Author:Jeb Bush

“Indian enterprises seemed to work so well they produced disasters; success made them burst at the seams and the disruption of unprecedented orders led to shortages and finally failure.”

Wells Made Order Disaster Indian Enterprise Unprecedented Disruption Shortage

Book:The Great Railway Bazaar

Source: The Great Railway Bazaar

“No magic bullet, not even the Internet, can save us from population explosion, deforestation, climate disruption, poison by pollution, and wholesale extinction of plant and animal species. We are going to have to want different things, seek different pleasures, pursue different goals than those that have been driving us and our global economy.”

“Because of the disruption phenomenon - technological progress outstripping the ability of customers to utilize it - the general tendency is for the money to migrate toward the subsystems.”

Ability Progress Customers Tendencies Phenomenon Technological Disruption Technological Progress Migrate

Author:Clayton Christensen

“The important thing is that over time, scientific progress transforms things that used to have to be dealt with in a problem-solving mode down to the pattern-recognition space; and from pattern recognition into the rules-based mode. This is the mechanism by which less-trained people are enabled to do more sophisticated things. This is always the way disruption happens. It enables a larger population of less-experienced people to do more sophisticated things.”

People Way Important Problem Happens Used Space Progress Important Things Patterns Population Recognition Mechanism Sophisticated Problem Solving Disruption Scientific Progress

Author:Clayton Christensen

“Those citizens are distracted by the toys technology has supplied, and fail to recognize the ways in which what they most deeply want is made vulnerable by the coming disruptions of human relations on an over-heated planet.”

Way Want Humans Made Technology Failing Planets Citizens Relation Vulnerable Toys Distracted Human Relations Disruption

Author:Philip Kitcher

“I think there's a huge - there's a huge desire in me to make sense of the world in a way that I think you can trace back to that early disruption, this idea of wanting to compensate for that really kind of traumatic experience and sort of seeing its impact on my immediate and extended family.”

Thinking World Way Kind Ideas Desire Seeing Huge Impact Make Sense Disruption Traumatic Experiences Extended Family

Author:Khoi Vinh

“When Paul [Greengrass] was writing, he'd send me story ideas that he had. He was particularly interested in social movements and revolutions that had been happening all over the world, and how computers and the internet had helped those movements. He encouraged me to read a book about Anonymous, the hacker group called "white hat" hackers, meaning they're driven by ideology and social disruption as opposed to just greed.”

World Writing Book Ideas Stories Social White Groups Movement Revolution Internet Computer Happenings Greed Driven Ideology Hats Disruption Hackers Social Movements

Author:Julia Stiles

“While advocates of legalized gambling say it brings in revenues needed for education and other uses, it actually has led to higher taxes, loss of jobs, economic disruption of non-gambling businesses, increased crime and higher social-welfare costs”

Use Jobs Social Loss Economic Crime Needed Higher Cost Taxes Welfare Gambling Revenue Disruption Social Welfare Job Loss

Author:John Warren Kindt

“There would be economic disruption in Omaha from expanded gambling...You would just be moving Chernobyl closer to the population center”

Would Be Moving Economic Population Gambling Disruption Chernobyl Omaha

Author:John Warren Kindt

“If all the people around you are happy with you, you are not doing great work. Progress is disruption and change.”

People Ifs Progress Great Work Disruption

Book:The Entrepreneur Roller Coaster: Why Now Is the Time to #Join the Ride

Source: The Entrepreneur Roller Coaster: Why Now Is the Time to #Join the Ride

“Nuclear war would mean abolition of most comforts, and disruption of normal routines, for children and adults alike.”

Mean Children War Comfort Normal Adults Nuclear Disruption Abolition Nuclear War

Author:Willard Libby

“The disruption caused by globalization and technology (what Tom Friedman calls hyperconnectedness) will be around for the rest of our professional lives.”

Technology Toms Globalization Disruption Professional Life

Author:Lewis Schiff

“Almost every disruption starts at the perceived fringes of today's market.”

Today Fringe Disruption

Author:Scott D. Anthony

“I immediately target sadness and conflict and disruption in life.”

Sadness Conflict Target Disruption

Author:Rachael Yamagata

“Back in 2011, when the weekend maintenance disruptions got more aggressive, we were told that the work on weekends and at night and midday would be enough to get the system back to a state of good repair.”

States Enough Would Be Night Aggressive Weekend Maintenance Disruption

Author:Robert James Thomson

“What I think is really interesting is to look at the culture of disruption and of world-changing in terms of what [Buckminster] Fuller was doing and to draw the contrast more than the similarity.”

Thinking World Looks Culture Term Interesting Draws Contrast Really Interesting Similarity Disruption Buckminster Fuller

Author:Jonathon Keats

“[Buckminster] Fuller was an independent operator coming up with these madcap ways of combining things with absolutely no strings attached and the fact that world changing now is happening within the corporation by and large, and that disruption is ironically what corporations do.”

World Way Facts Happenings Independent Corporations Strings Disruption Combining Operators Buckminster Fuller Strings Attached No Strings Attached

Author:Jonathon Keats

“[Donald Trump] is talking a lot about redoing trade and that's the area that is getting globalists nervous. Number one, they want certainty. They do not want to see a disruption in trade. He's promising to rip up NAFTA, redo NAFTA. He's not going to do the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the TPP trade with Asia.”

Want Numbers Talking Trump Areas Trade Nervous Certainty Partnership Asia Rip Trans Pacific Disruption Nafta Redos

Author:Maria Bartiromo

“I think I have felt most profoundly that in our disruption of the most basic physical processes of creation, we are engaged not only in the act of suicidal self-destructiveness, but also in an act of thorough-going blasphemy.”

Thinking Self Felt Process Creation Engaged Suicidal Thorough Disruption Blasphemy Destructiveness

Author:Bill McKibben

“If Trump were to go ahead with a renewed policy of hostility toward Iran, it would immediately raise tensions, and could quickly escalate in the direction of war, with grave dangers of producing another Syrian tragedy of massive displacement and prolonged strife that could cause turmoil and disruptions throughout the entire region, and give rise to a new cycle of extremism.”

Ifs Giving War Causes Danger Policy Trump Tragedy Raises Graves Tension Regions Cycles Iran Massive Strife Hostility Extremism Turmoil Disruption Displacement

Author:Richard A. Falk

“It's kind of depressing when you hear the anti-science rhetoric in America, but I think that people are just afraid of change, and I think they're afraid of disruption, and I think they're afraid of the feeling that the rug is being pulled from underneath their feet. People are used to things changing maybe over many generations, but they're not used to seeing things change within their own lifetime. The problem is people are going to college and graduating, and realizing that their major is obsolete.”

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