Quotes About Global

Ideally, travel broadens our perspectives personally, culturally, and politically. Suddenly, the palette with which we paint the story of our lives has more colors.

Travelers recognize that the results of an election here in the US can have a greater impact on poor people half a world away than it does on middle-class American voters. My travels have taught me that, even if motived only by greed, you don't want to be really rich in a desperately poor world. With this in mind, I think of it not as noble or heroic, but simply pragmatic to bring a compassion for the needy along with me into the voting booth.

That same power translates everywhere, all around the world, because nothing expresses joy like singing together.

China has a national economic strategy designed to create more and better jobs. We have global corporations designed to make money for their shareholders. No contest.

China has a national economic strategy designed to create more and better jobs. We have global corporations designed to make money for their shareholders.

Using the official $1 per day line, we estimate that [from 1970 to 2006] world poverty rates have fallen by 80 percent.

It requires the most active cooperation of at least several advanced countries, among which we cannot classify Russia.

In any competitive environment in which there are winners or losers, the person who has the wider, more global perspective will inevitably prevail. The reason is simple: such a person will be able to think beyond the moment and control the overall dynamic through careful strategizing.

Daily Law: Instead of using this remarkable instrument as a means to get attention or to vent your rage and display your superiority, see the internet in this different light—an invitation to a fascinating journey inside a global brain and the surprises it can bring you by roaming freely in this vast space and making surprising connections.

Daily Law: The person with the more global perspective wins. Expand your gaze.

This is the nightmare I have always dreaded. It's as if we've learned nothing from the last war and we are reliving August 1914. One by one the countries of the world will be dragged in - and for what?

We want to show men how they can access these positive archetypal potentials for their own benefit and for the benefit of all those around them, maybe even for the planet.

The world knows nearly instantly of our military actions abroad, but we seem to think the selfless actions we take aren't worth publicizing effectively. That is not how a country best builds or exercises power.

by the year 2020, depression is projected to be the second leading cause of medical disability on earth.

According to UNICEF, if ninety school buses filled with preschoolers crashed every day with no survivors, the world would notice. Yet that's how many young children perish daily from impure water and inadequate sanitation.3 One

Today, much of the global economy is based on debt and confidence. As long as we all keep holding hands and no one breaks ranks, everything will be fine. By the way, the word fine is my acronym for Feeling Insecure, Neurotic and Emotional.

Today, McDonald's is the largest single owner of real estate in the world, owning even more than the Catholic church. McDonald's owns some of the most valuable intersections and street corners in America and around the globe.

As Fuller stated, humanity's next evolutionary challenge is to learn to cooperate and solve our global problems.

Humanity is fundamentally a story of migration.

Wait a minute. Can a general worldwide collector care more about some countries than others? Is there a Most-Favored Nation clause in his contract with philately? Ah. Wouldn't you know it? Now I've got a topic for next month's column. . .

With all of the hysteria, all of the fear, all of the phony science, could it be that man-made global warming is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people? It sure sounds like it.

Anthropology is the science which tells us that people are the same the whole world over-except when they are different.

Anyone who can solve the problems of water will be worthy of two Nobel prizes - one for peace and one for science.

The world is my country. Science my religion.