Motivational Quotes Overwhelm UN Climate Summit Venue

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The Expo Centre in Dubai, hosting this year's United Nations Climate Summit, COP28, is filled with an overwhelming number of motivational quotes, diminishing their impact and becoming visual noise.

"Let's lead change. Action builds trust. Turn promises into progress. Hope inspires action". These are among the many, many motivational and inspirational quotes hanging from ceilings and walls, lampposts and posters throughout the space-age Expo Centre in Dubai , chosen as home to this year's United Nations Climate Summit, COP28 . No doubt a team of organisers had a field day trawling through a google search for inspirational quotes and motivational quips.

Probably got huge money for doing it too. "Turn promises into progress. Think without limits. Turn rhetoric into respect. Let's act now". The fact that there are so many of these giant quotes hanging throughout the place diminishes their overall impacts quite a bit. It's overkill. There are so many of them that they are lessened and their power to inspire is weakened. They become demoted to a kind of visual noise. Most people rushing through this giant venue probably don't even stop to notice them anymore, let alone be inspired by them. There are too many. "Think without limits. Let’s turn rhetoric into respec

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