Motivation Quotes - Page 16

• It’s time for architecture to do things again, not just represent things.

  Joshua Prince-Ramus

  Inspiration, Architecture

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• We don’t choose between experiences, we choose between memories of experiences. Even when we think about the future, we don’t think of our future normally as experiences. We think of our future as anticipated memories.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Memories, Inspiration, Thinking

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• Imagine a giant asteroid on a direct collision course with Earth. That is the equivalent of what we face now with climate change, yet we dither.

  James Hansen

  Inspiration, Earth, Asteroids

  "James Hansen: What Makes A Scientist Take A Stand?". Interview with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. April 7, 2017.

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• I daydreamed for motivation. I didn't lie to myself and talk about my passions and how if I was passionate enough about something I could be successful at it.

  Mark Cuban

  Lying, Passion, Successful

  "MARK CUBAN: Here's What You Need To Know Before Starting A Business" by Max Nisen, www.businessinsider.com. December 24, 2012.

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• Don't fake it till you make it. Fake it till you become it.

  Amy Cuddy

  Inspiration, Fake, Psychology

  Amy Cuddy (2015). “Presence: Bringing Your Boldest Self to Your Biggest Challenges”, Hachette UK

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• Very many people go through their whole lives having no real sense of what their talents may be, or if they have any to speak of.

  Ken Robinson

  Real, Inspiration, People

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• The next time you're looking at a charity, don't ask about the rate of their overhead. Ask about the scale of their dreams.

  Dan Pallotta

  Dream, Inspiration, Charity

  "The way we think about charity is dead wrong". TED Talk, www.ted.com. March 2013.

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• The next 30 days are going to pass whether you like it or not, so why not think about something you have always wanted to try and give it a shot for the next 30 days?

  Matt Cutts

  Inspiration, Thinking, Giving

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• Vulnerability pushed, I pushed back. I lost the fight, but probably won my life back.

  Brené Brown

  Inspiration, Fighting, Lost

  "The power of vulnerability". TED Talk, www.ted.com. June 2010.

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• Burning one hectare of grassland gives off more, and more damaging, pollutants than 6,000 cars. And we are burning in Africa, every single year, more than one billion hectares.

  Allan Savory

  Inspirational, Motivational, Years

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• If Americans want to live the American dream, they should go to Denmark.

  Richard G. Wilkinson

  Dream, Inspiration, Want

  "TED Global 2011: Forget Glastonbury, this is Nerdstock" by Carole Cadwalladr, www.theguardian.com. July 13, 2011.

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• What's it like to be a baby? It's like being in love in Paris for the first time after you've had three double espressos.

  Alison Gopnik

  Baby, Inspiration, Being In Love

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• [Models] have the thinnest thighs, the shiniest hair and the coolest clothes, and they're the most physically insecure women probably on the planet.

  Cameron Russell

  Inspiration, Insecure, Hair

  "Looks aren't everything. Believe me, I'm a model". TED Talk, www.ted.com. October 2012.

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• When babies listen, what they're doing is taking statistics on the language that they hear.

  Patricia K. Kuhl

  Baby, Inspiration, Statistics

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• Babies all over the world are what I like to describe as 'citizens of the world.' They can discriminate all the sounds of all languages, no matter what country we're testing and what language we're using.

  Patricia K. Kuhl

  Country, Baby, Inspiration

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• I have shown that Swedish top students know statistically significantly less about the world than the chimpanzees.

  Hans Rosling

  Inspiration, World, Students

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• The miracle of your mind isn't that you can see the world as it is. It's that you can see the world as it isn't.

  Kathryn Schulz

  Inspiration, Miracle, Mind

  "On being wrong". TED conference, www.ted.com. March 2011.

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• I try never to get too high when things are going well. I try never to get too low when things are going poorly. I try to keep an even keel.

  Barack Obama

  Trying, Lows, Keel

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• I was re-experiencing these things that happened a long time ago, and I'm trying to relive it now, and I'm bringing all of my current motivations and personality into that which were not there at the time. It's hard to remember exactly who I was when I was ten, fifteen.

  Chelsea Martin

  Long, Personality, Trying

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• If you do something for fun and create the best possible product, then the profit will come.

  Richard Branson

  Fun, Work, Profit

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• QUESTION: Do you know what the greatest test is? ANSWER:Do you still get excited about what you do when you get up in the morning?

  David Halberstam

  Life, Morning, Answers

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• Thank God there were a couple of people in my life who said, "Go on, go on - you can do it!

  Barbra Streisand

  Life, Couple, People

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• When faced with a mountain, I WILL NOT QUIT! I will keep on striving until I climb over, find a pass through, tunnel underneath, or simply stay and turn the mountain into a gold mine with God's help!

  Robert H. Schuller

  Life, Tunnels, Gold

  Robert H. Schuller (2002). “The Be Happy Attitudes”, p.129, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The first thing a great person does is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Doe, Firsts

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• When you look at people who are successful, you will find that they aren't the people who are motivated, but have consistency in their motivation.

  Arsene Wenger

  Success, People, Consistency

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