Motivation Quotes - Page 18

• I've been shot down so many times, I get altitude sickness just from standing up for myself.

  Shane Koyczan

  Inspiration, Sickness, Shots

  "To This Day ... for the bullied and beautiful". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February 2013.

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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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• 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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• So you're six years old, you're reading 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarves,' and it becomes rapidly obvious that there are only two kinds of men in the world: dwarves and Prince Charmings. And the odds are seven to one against your finding the prince.

  Emily Levine

  Inspiration, Reading, Men

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• The very ingredients that nurture love - mutuality, reciprocity, protection, worry, responsibility for the other - are sometimes the very ingredients that stifle desire.

  Esther Perel

  Inspiration, Responsibility, Worry

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• There are more than 27 million people enslaved in the world today - that's double the amount of people taken from Africa during the entire trans-Atlantic slave trade.

  Lisa Kristine

  Taken, Inspiration, People

  FaceBook post by Lisa Kristine from May 28, 2014

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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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• Americans don't know a lot about the Middle East - [they] don't know we laugh.

  Maz Jobrani

  Inspiration, Laughing, Middle East

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• We are educating people out of their creative capacities.

  Ken Robinson

  Education, Inspiration, People

  "Do schools kill creativity?". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February 2006.

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• Below an income of ... $60,000 a year, people are unhappy, and they get progressively unhappier the poorer they get. Above that, we get an absolutely flat line. ... Money does not buy you experiential happiness, but lack of money certainly buys you misery.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Inspiration, Years, People

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• [Domestic violence is] a carefully laid physical, financial and psychological trap.

  Leslie Morgan Steiner

  Inspiration, Domestic Violence, Financial

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• When we numb [hard feelings], we numb joy, we numb gratitude, we numb happiness.

  Brené Brown

  Gratitude, Inspiration, Joy

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• We are living on average today 34 years longer than our great-grandparents did.

  Jane Fonda

  Inspiration, Average, Years

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• We've got to cut the extraneous out of our lives, and we've got to learn to stem the inflow. We need to think before we buy. Ask ourselves, 'Is that really going to make me happier? Truly?'

  Graham Hill

  Inspiration, Cutting, Thinking

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• I started out with a dream to make a star in a jar, and I ended up ... making things that I think can change the world.

  Taylor Wilson

  Dream, Stars, Inspiration

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• It is okay to be an outsider, a recent arrival, new on the scene - and not just okay, but something to be thankful for. ... Because being an insider can so easily mean collapsing the horizons, can so easily mean accepting the presumptions of your province.

  Tan Le

  Inspiration, Mean, Being Thankful

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• You cannot talk about race without talking about privilege. And when people start talking about privilege, they get paralyzed by shame.

  Brené Brown

  Inspiration, Race, Talking

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• Ten years ago, when I was on an airplane and I introduced myself to my seatmate, and told them [I was a psychologist], they'd move away from me. ... And now when I tell people what I do, they move toward me.

  Martin Seligman

  Moving, Inspiration, Airplane

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• The two most powerful words when we're in struggle: me too.

  Brené Brown

  Powerful, Struggle, Inspiration

  "Listening to shame". TED Talk, www.ted.com. March 2012.

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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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• When you smile you don't only appear to be more likable and courteous, you appear to be more competent.

  Ron Gutman

  Inspiration, Competent, Courteous

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• It is a dream of mankind to fly like a bird.

  Marcus Fischer

  Dream, Inspiration, Bird

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• It stands to reason that we love chocolate cake because it is sweet. Guys go for girls like this because they are sexy. We adore babies because they're so cute. And, of course, we are amused by jokes because they are funny. This is all backwards. It is. And Darwin shows us why.

  Daniel Dennett

  Cute, Girl, Sexy

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• If we see someone in a wheelchair, we assume they cannot walk. It may be that they can walk three, four, five steps. That, to them, means they can walk.

  Evelyn Glennie

  Inspiration, Mean, Three

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