Ted Talks Quotes

• I feel like great TED Talks are ones that are a little bit subject to interpretation, that do provoke further conversation - and potentially controversy.

  Damon Lindelof

  Littles, Conversation, Interpretation

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• I didn't really - at least intellectually and creatively - have a particularly compelling experience in college. But during my junior year, they made the TED talks public. So I started listening to them. They were producing one per day, and I was listening to one per day, every day, at the gym.

  Maria Popova

  College, Years, Listening

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• I look at myself more as a storyteller than a screenwriter, as pretentious as that may sound, but that's what really attracts me to TED Talks. For me, the really effective ones are being presented by expert storytellers.

  Damon Lindelof

  May, Sound, Experts

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• Learning is available at the library for free; under a tree with a dog-eared paperback; at a job with a boss who gives you responsibility and mentorship; while traveling; while leading a cause, movement, or charity; while writing a novel or composing a poem or crafting a song; while interning, apprenticing, or volunteering; while playing a sport or immersing yourself in a language; while starting a business; and now, while watching a TED talk or taking a Khan Academy class.

  Michael Ellsberg

  Sports, Dog, Song

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• What's important to me is that I put messages out, whether it's a TED talk, whether it's a book.

  Simon Sinek

  Book, Important, Messages

  Source: advisor.tv

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• I saw the first one [video with Hans Rosling ] when he did - I think it was his first one - in 2006, a TED Talk. And for the first time in my life, I thought here's someone who can take statistics that most people regard as dull and boring and bring it alive.

  Keith Devlin

  Thinking, People, Firsts

  Source: www.npr.org

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