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Quotes About Tipping

chance variation in a small number of early movers" can have major effects in tipping large populations
~ Daniel Kahneman
He'd reached that perilous stage of being drunk enough to think himself a good dancer… but was dangerously close in tipping over to the point where he'd act like an arse
~ Iain Clements, Tweet Of Faith
Chivalry: It's treating a woman politely As long as she isn't a fright: It's guarding the girls who act rightly, If you can be judge of what's right; It's being—not just, but so pleasant; It's tipping while wages are low; It's making a beautiful present, And failing to pay what you owe.
~ Alice Duer Miller
Straw met camel's back. Breaking commenced.
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
He'll fight to grab the check, then tip like crap.
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Understand tipping culture. Whereas Americans tip 15-20% when dining out, most European countries don't tip, as a service charge is typically included in the bill. Make sure you're not over-tipping by doing research before traveling.
~ Gillian Tans
Small mistakes, the lack of care, little accidents, and somewhere a tipping point is passed and things go badly wrong. Expedition history brims with tragedies built out of incremental missteps.
~ Alan S. Kesselheim
La vérité, c'est qu'il y a une quantité incroyable de gouttes qui ne font pas déborder le vase.
~ Romain Gary
Broken Windows theory and the Power of Context are one and the same. They are both based on the premise that an epidemic can be reversed, can be tipped, by tinkering with the smallest details of the immediate environment. This
~ Malcolm Gladwell
In the end, Tipping Points are a reaffirmation of the potential for change and the power of intelligent action. Look at the world around you. It may seem like an immovable, implacable place. It is not. With the slightest push—in just the right place—it can be tipped.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
Broken Windows theory and the Power of Context are one and the same. They are both based on the premise that an epidemic can be reversed, can be tipped, by tinkering with the smallest details of the immediate environment.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
This idea of the importance of stickiness in tipping has enormous implications for the way we regard social epidemics as well. We tend to spend a lot of time thinking about how to make messages more contagious — how to reach as many people as possible with our products or ideas. But the hard part of communication is often figuring out how to make sure a message doesn't go in one ear and out the other.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
The line between hostility and acceptance between an epidemic that tips and one that does not, is sometimes a lot narrower than it seems.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
The name given to that one dramatic moment in an epidemic when everything can change all at once is the Tipping Point.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
I wish I had the nerve not to tip.
~ Paul Lynde
His long limbs didn't fit to easily into a drawing room, where it seemed one or other of them was always flailing out of its own accord, tipping a little side table here or tripping a rug there; he was like a huge epileptic heron.
~ John Harding
The tipping custom originated in England when small sums were dropped into a box marked T.I.P.S. --TO INSURE PROMPT SERVICE.
~ Author Unknown, (apocryphal)
Women are especially sensible in matters relating to tipping: fair but not foolish.
~ Michael Frome
She tipped her cup over the saucer and then looked at the tea leaves. "It's a fine thing for a Marxist to say," she added, "but I do see signs of happiness here." She cheated, though, moving one tea leaf alongside another to improve the omens.
~ Elizabeth Taylor
I hate it in America where the protocol seems to be you are expected to tip regardless of the quality of service. I like to tip when it's not being demanded of me, and if the service has been good, I tip quite generously.
~ Ian Gillan
When it comes to a lip sync, Kennedy Davenport is someone that, when I first turned 18, I was going to the clubs in Dallas, because I went to college there, seeing, and tipping, and would live. She's the dancing diva of Texas.
~ Shangela
I always get involved with the environment because once you go past the tipping point with the environment, you don't get it back.
~ Chris Noth
Is it 10 years, 20, 50 before we reach that tipping point where climate change becomes irreversible? Nobody can know. There's clearly a probability distribution. We need to ensure this planet, and we need to do it quickly.
~ Vinod Khosla
One of the origins of tipping in nineteenth-century America lies in the refusal of white business owners to pay newly freed, black workers a wage, and there are still documented differences in tips received by servers today based on their race.
~ Jonathan Morduch