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• Recognize that being one of the only black people in an organization, or just in a meeting, automatically makes you very visible. Use this to help yourself. Look at it as an opportunity, and leverage that opportunity by making a visible contribution.

  Kenneth I. Chenault

  Leadership, Opportunity, Organization

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• The growing use of biofuel will be an inestimable contribution to the generation of income, social inclusion and reduction of poverty in many poor countries of the world.

  Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

  Country, Countries Of The World, Income

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• We scientists have fantasies of being uniquely qualified to make great discoveries. Alas, reality is cruel: most of us are replaceable. For the vast majority of scientific contributions, if scientist X hadn't achieved it that year, scientist Y would have achieved the same result or something very similar soon thereafter.

  Jared Diamond

  Science, Reality, Discovery

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• Eight Hours For What We Will is a major contribution to modern American working-class history and to the history of a changing American popular and mass culture.

  Herbert Gutman

  Eight, Mass Culture, Class

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• The truth about our own modest contribution might immobilize us: much easier then, to tell ourselves a story about how much we make our own reality.

  David Whyte

  Reality, Stories, Might

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• I think cable has been under-appreciated for its contribution to society.

  Brian Roberts

  Thinking, Appreciated, Contribution To Society

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• James Russell offers a timely and compelling blueprint for a realistic transformation of America's energy consumption by refusing to fall victim to conventional thinking. Accessible?pragmatic even?Russell's proposals speak to goals on the immediate horizon and underscore the role that intelligent design can play now in America. On a longer horizon, his analysis points to a range of issues about land use, transportation, and coordination of public and private investments to which the design professions have an enormous contribution to make. Here design and policy find common ground.

  Barry Bergdoll

  Fall, Thinking, Intelligent

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• Every day I meet people who have so much to give but have been...frighten ed enough to hold it back. It's time to stop complying with the system and draw your own map. You have brilliance in you, your contribution is essential, and the art you create is precious. Only you can do it, and you must.

  Seth Godin

  Art, People, Giving

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• A life without impact and contribution is a very empty life, so use your life to make the world better.

  Robin Sharma

  Empty Life, Impact, Use

  FaceBook post by Robin Sharma from Mar 15, 2015

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• To be truly happy, you need a clear sense of direction. You need a commitment to something bigger and more important than yourself. You need to feel that your life stands for something, that you are somehow making a valuable contribution to your world.

  Brian Tracy

  Commitment, Important, Needs

  Brian Tracy (2011). “Maximum Achievement: Strategies and Skills that Will Unlock Your Hidden”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

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• When I became the NASA administrator — or before I became the NASA administrator — Barack Obama charged me with three things. One was he wanted me to help re-inspire children to want to get into science and math, he wanted me to expand our international relationships, and third, and perhaps foremost, he wanted me to find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science … and math and engineering.

  Charles Bolden

  Children, Math, Engineering

  "Does the 'S' In NASA Suddenly Stand for 'Stupid'?" by Dan Gainor, www.foxnews.com. July 07, 2010.

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• It is not selfish to be happy. It is your highest purpose. Your joy is the greatest contribution you can make to life on the planet. A heart at peace with its owner blesses everyone it touches.

  Alan Cohen

  Selfish, Heart, Joy

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• No library of American business achievement is complete without the story of Arthur G. Gaston. . . . Black Titan is a long overdue contribution to the recording of not just black history, but American history.

  Earl G. Graves, Sr.

  Long, Achievement, Black History

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• The way of the Essentialist means living by design, not by default. Instead of making choices reactively, the Essentialist deliberately distinguishes the vital few from the trivial many, eliminates the non-essentials, and then removes obstacles so the essential things have clear, smooth passage. In other words, Essentialism is a disciplined, systematic approach for determining where our highest point of contribution lies, then making execution of those things almost effortless.

  Greg McKeown

  Lying, Mean, Choices

  "Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less". Book by Greg McKeown, April 17, 2014.

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• Essentialism: only once you give yourself permission to stop trying to do it all, to stop saying yes to everyone, can you make your highest contribution towards the things that really matter.

  Greg McKeown

  Giving, Trying, Saying Yes

  Greg McKeown (2014). “Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less”, p.4, Random House

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• The greatest contribution we can make to the wellbeing of those in our lives
  is to have peace in our own hearts.

  David Simon

  Heart, Life Is, Wellbeing

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• What a beautiful testament to the creative spirit and its true motives, to creative contribution coming from a place of purpose rather than a hunger for profit.

  Leonard Cohen

  Beautiful, Creative, Purpose

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• Life is not measured in time, but in love, contribution, and grace.

  Carly Fiorina

  Grace, Life Is

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• The greatest contribution you can make to women's rights, is to be the absolute ... best at what you do.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Rights, Absolutes, Women's Rights

  Oprah Winfrey, Janet Lowe (1998). “Oprah Winfrey speaks: insight from the world's most influential voice”, John Wiley & Sons

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• Replace your pursuit of success with the pursuit of contribution.

  Peter Drucker

  Pursuit

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• Anything that we scientists can do to weaken the hold of religion, should be done and may, in fact, in the end, be our greatest contribution to civilization.

  Steven Weinberg

  Civilization, Facts, Done

  Beyond Belief : Science, Religion, Reason and Survival, November 5, 2006.

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• When I was young, the concept of being a dreamer was a very negative one. If you were a dreamer, you were useless. You didn't contribute anything to society. But Star Trek made dreaming legitimate, and I think that was a huge, huge contribution.

  Martin Cooper

  Dream, Stars, Thinking

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• Are you willing to take the Big Leap to your ultimate level of success in love, money, and creative contribution?

  Gay Hendricks

  Creative, Levels, Bigs

  Gay Hendricks, PhD (2009). “The Big Leap: Conquer Your Hidden Fear and Take Life to the Next Level”, p.12, Harper Collins

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• I need scarcely say that the beginning and maintenance of life on earth is absolutely and infinitely beyond the range of all sound speculation in dynamical science. The only contribution of dynamics to theoretical biology is absolute negation of automatic commencement or automatic maintenance of life.

  Lord Kelvin

  Sound, Needs, Maintenance

  "The Life of Lord Kelvin" by Silvanus Phillips, Volume 2, (p. 866), 2005.

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• Major Richard Bong was an example of the tragic and terrible price we must pay to maintain principles of human rights, of greater value than life itself. This gallant Air Force hero will be remembered because he made his final contribution to aviation in the dangerous role of test pilot of an untried experimental plane, a deed that places him among the stout-hearted pioneers who gave their lives in the conquest of sky and space.

  Eddie Rickenbacker

  Hero, Sky, Space

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