A Quote by Owen Barfield

When the velocity of progress increases beyond a certain point, it becomes indistinguishable from crisis.

Owen Barfield

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Owen Barfield
British - Philosopher
November 9, 1898 - December 14, 1997

Beyond a certain point, the whole universe becomes a continuous process of initiation.

Robert Anton Wilson

Technology to me does two things: it increases the velocity of communication and increases the number of people who can participate. That's it. That's really all technology for our entire history has ever done.

Jack Dorsey

In 2009, at the height of the global economic crisis, it was clear that we were seeing something new: the impacts of the crisis were flowing across borders at unprecedented velocity.

Ban Ki-moon

All urbanization, pushed beyond a certain point, automatically becomes suburbanization.... Every great city is just a collection of suburbs. Its inhabitantsdo not live in their city; they merely inhabit it.

Aldous Huxley

Nonviolence, when it becomes active, travels with extraordinary velocity, and then it becomes a miracle.

Mahatma Gandhi

I've done interviews in one day that went on for fifteen, sixteen hours. And at a certain point, the control over what they're saying breaks down; it becomes different. It becomes really powerful, and for me, real. It becomes out of control.

Errol Morris

A long-term crisis, after a certain point, no longer seems like a crisis. It seems like the way things are.

James Surowiecki

Let us not underestimate the privileges of the mediocre. As one climbs higher, life becomes ever harder, the coldness increases, responsibility increases.

Friedrich Nietzsche

At a certain point, you can't tax people beyond a certain level.

Meredith Whitney

The Obama administration's large and sustained increases in debt raise the specter of another financial crisis and large future tax increases, further chilling business investment and job creation.

Glenn Hubbard

Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached.

Franz Kafka

You cannot reduce the complexity of a given task beyond a certain point. Once you've reached that point, you can only shift the burden around.

Larry Tesler

All religious systems enslave the mind. Certain things are demanded-certain things must be believed-certain things must be done-and the man who becomes the subject or servant of this superstition must give up all idea of indivuality or hope of intellectual growth or progress.

Robert Green Ingersoll

At a certain point in your career - I mean, part of the answer is a personal answer, which is that at a certain point in your career, it becomes more satisfying to help entrepreneurs than to be one.

Marc Andreessen

Most companies aim to get bigger. But beyond a certain point, bigness becomes synonymous with badness. Think of Big Pharma, Big Auto, Big Oil. Worse, if you are regularly described as one of the Big Four, Five, or Six in any business sector, you are probably already in the sights of regulators and lawmakers.

Andrew Hill

There is a point beyond which even justice becomes unjust.

Sophocles

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