Motivation Quotes - Page 19

• That's what life is about: about daring greatly, about being in the arena.

  Brené Brown

  Inspiration, Arena, Life Is

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• [The Barefoot College is] the only college where the teacher is the learner and the learner is the teacher.

  Bunker Roy

  Teacher, Inspiration, College

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• If it would destroy [a 12-year-old boy] to be called a girl, what are we then teaching him about girls?

  Tony Porter

  Girl, Teaching, Inspiration

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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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• If you're bringing up kids, you just want to smother them with love and praise and enthusiasm. So I don't think you can mollycoddle your kids too much really.

  Richard Branson

  Inspiration, Kids, Thinking

  "Life at 30,000 feet". Interview with Chris Anderson, www.ted.com. March, 2007.

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• We are the most in-debt, obese, addicted and medicated adult cohort in U.S. history.

  Brené Brown

  Inspiration, Adults, Debt

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

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• Not one country in all the world has eliminated its economic participation [gender] gap - not one.

  Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

  Country, Inspiration, Gender Gap

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• That is why I took up the gun - not to shoot, not to kill, not to destroy, but to stop those who would do evil, to protect the vulnerable, to defend democratic values, to stand up for the freedom we have to talk ... about how we can make the world a better place.

  Peter van Uhm

  Inspiration, Gun, Evil

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• People who say ... they're perfectly fine [are] more insane than the rest of us.

  Ruby Wax

  Inspiration, People, Insane

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• We spend our time responding rationally to a world which we understand and recognize, but which no longer exists.

  Eddie Obeng

  Inspiration, World, Responding

  "Why the best thing you can do is fail" By Eddie Obeng, www.cnn.com. December 30, 2012.

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• Secrets can remind us of the countless human dramas, of frailty and heroism playing out silently in the lives of people all around us.

  Frank Warren

  Drama, Inspiration, People

  "Half a million secrets". TED conference, www.ted.com. February 2012.

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• When we're infused with either enthusiasm or awe or fondness ... it changes what we see. It changes what we remember.

  Robert Legato

  Inspiration, Enthusiasm, Remember

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• Even though I am a mathematician, I look at [fetal development] with marvel: How do these instruction sets not make mistakes as they build what is us?

  Alexander Tsiaras

  Mistake, Inspiration, Looks

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• Humans in the developed world spend more than 90 percent of their lives indoors, where they breathe in and come into contact with trillions of life forms invisible to the naked eye: microorganisms.

  Jessica Green

  Inspiration, Eye, Naked

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• Positive findings are around twice as likely to be published as negative findings. This is a cancer at the core of evidence-based medicine.

  Ben Goldacre

  Cancer, Inspiration, Medicine

  A Rhetoric of Public Bias: How Doctors Are Mislead About the Drugs They Prescribe, delivered September 2012

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• There is no neediness in desire ... there is no caretaking in desire. Caretaking is mightily loving, [but] it's a powerful anti-aphrodisiac.

  Esther Perel

  Powerful, Inspiration, Desire

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• I'm going to show you all how easy it is to manipulate the human mind once you know how.

  Keith Barry

  Inspiration, Mind, Easy

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• We no longer live in a world that is neatly divided between rich and well-educated countries, and poor and badly-educated ones.

  Andreas Schleicher

  Country, Inspiration, World

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• Information, if viewed from the point of view of food, is never a production issue. ... It's a consumption issue, and we have to start thinking about how we create diets [and] exercise.

  J.P. Rangaswami

  Inspiration, Exercise, Thinking

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• Health cannot be bought at the supermarket. You have to invest in health. You have to get kids into schooling. You have to train health staff. You have to educate the population.

  Hans Rosling

  Inspiration, Kids, Population

  "The best stats you've ever seen". TED Talks, www.ted.com. February 2006.

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• I want [my daughter] to look at the world through the underside of a glass-bottom boat, to look through a microscope at the galaxies that exist on the pinpoint of a human mind.

  Sarah Kay

  Daughter, Inspiration, Glasses

  Sarah Kay, “If I should have a daughter”

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• You have to utilize who you are in your work. Nobody else can do that: nobody else can pull from your background, from your parents, your upbringing, your whole life experience.

  David Carson

  Inspiration, Parent, Life Experience

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• While I was at Microsoft, the annual revenues grew larger than the GDP of the Republic of Ghana.

  Patrick Awuah, Jr.

  Inspiration, Ghana, Gdp

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• If we ... capitalize on the very real strengths of older people, then added years of life can dramatically improve quality of life at all ages.

  Laura L. Carstensen

  Real, Inspiration, Years

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