Global Thinking Quotes

One of the most important lessons we can glean from the environmental movement is to 'think globally and act locally.'

Think globally, act locally": "Our salvation depends upon our ability to create a religion of nature.

I don't believe in saturation. We're thinking and talking worldwide.

I don't think it's any different if I'm in the U.S. or in London. I look at operations globally.

When you live on a round planet, there's no choosing sides.

Think globally, act locally, think tribally, act universally.

When you start traveling and thinking from a global perspective, you realize how small the planet is and how predatory we are to its ecology.

A wise man’s country is the world.

Civilization has evolved toward more acceptance, understanding and tolerance of global thinking. If we accept differences, our creativity booms. It makes life much more colorful. It also makes humanity much more safe. If we see pureness somewhere as something to be desired, the trouble starts.

If we think long term, the younger generation here is better about embracing the world. Not seeing countries boundaries kind of an "us versus them" thing.

If we want to be members of the world community, we need to think that way.

Everyone connected to the internet acts globally. it is wildly foolish to think locally.

Never in all their history have men been able truly to conceive of the world as one: a single sphere, a globe, having the qualities of a globe, a round earth in which all the directions eventually meet, in which there is no center because every point, or none, is center - an equal earth which all men occupy as equals. The airman's earth, if free men make it, will be truly round: a globe in practice, not in theory.

As the young leaders of tomorrow, you have the passion and energy and commitment to make a difference. What I'd like to really urge you do is to have a global vision. Go beyond your country; go beyond your national boundaries

Most of my work for the past 25 years has been devoted to organizing demonstrations, benefits and campaigns, many of which have had the effect of bringing a policy debate to public focus or moving a political agenda forward. It's become a cliché to say 'think globally and act locally,' but it works.

I call it "the big picture effect." Getting to see earth as a small planet and to see it in that perspective, seeing it in the heavens as a planet as opposed to being down here among it, most of the people, in fact, I guess all of the people who have had that experience, shift their thinking.

My perspective is cultural and world-based. It's always been a global perspective.

I have always thought that being a good American is appreciating the world, not just your own country.

[On Vice-President Henry A. Wallace:] Much of what Mr. Wallace calls his global thinking is, no matter how you slice it, still globaloney.

There is not a thought that is being thought in the West or the East that is not active in some Indian mind

I have also made this a point in our company: We need to stop taking baby steps and start thinking globally. It really seems to be helping.

My key message is be innovative, be ambitious; think global and big on day one.

We have to come together, worldwide, and 'think.' We have a tool - the internet - to let us do that. Let's use it wisely.

Very obviously, the electorate as a mass has not imbibed the philosophy of 'think national, act local' or even 'think big and beyond' - it is a case, more, of 'think local, act local, and let the national equation take care of itself.'

There is this notion that is quite popular in the environmental scene that every little bit helps, or 'Think global, act local.' I disagree with that. I think you have to start with how big the solution needs to be to solve the problem and then reason backward from there.