Motivation Quotes - Page 20

• 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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• The number of children is not growing any longer in the world. We are still debating peak oil, but we have definitely reached peak child.

  Hans Rosling

  Children, Inspiration, Oil

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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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• If you ever go bar hopping, who do you want to take with you? You want a slightly uglier version of yourself. Similar ... but slightly uglier.

  Dan Ariely

  Inspiration, Bars, Want

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• [Psychics] use exactly the same gimmicks that we magicians do - the same physical methods, the same psychological methods - and they effectively and profoundly deceive millions of people around the earth, to their detriment.

  James Randi

  Inspiration, Psychics, People

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• Beyond the profound federal perks, married people make more money; we're healthier, physically and emotionally; we produce happier, more stable and more successful kids; we have more sex than our supposedly swinging single friends; we even live longer.

  Jenna McCarthy

  Sex, Inspiration, Kids

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• Don't persuade, defend or interrupt. Be curious, be conversational, be real. And listen.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Real, Inspiration, Curious

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• [Introverts,] the world needs you and it needs the things you carry. So I wish you the best of all possible journeys and the courage to speak softly.

  Susan Cain

  Inspiration, Journey, Wish

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• The most important innovation in medicine to come in the next 10 years: the power of the human hand.

  Abraham Verghese

  Inspiration, Hands, Years

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• I see the God complex around me all the time in my fellow economists. I see it in our business leaders. I see it in the politicians we vote for - people who, in the face of an incredibly complicated world, are nevertheless absolutely convinced that they understand the way that the world works.

  Tim Harford

  Inspiration, Complicated World, People

  "Trial, error and the God complex". TED conference, www.ted.com. July 2011.

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• I was holding [my four-year-old daughter] and I said, 'Sophia, I love you more than anything in the universe.' And she turned to me and said, 'Daddy, universe or multiverse?'

  Brian Greene

  Daughter, I Love You More, Inspiration

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• The average well-being of our societies is not dependent any longer on national income and economic growth. ... But the differences between us and where we are in relation to each other now matter very much.

  Richard G. Wilkinson

  Inspiration, Average, Differences

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• It's hard to reach [the age of] 100. We're not programmed for longevity. We are programmed for something called procreative success.

  Dan Buettner

  Inspiration, Age, Longevity

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• I became Vulnerability TED, like an action figure - like Ninja Barbie, but I'm Vulnerability TED.

  Brené Brown

  Inspiration, Barbie, Ninja

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• What I'm really worried about is war. Will the former rich countries really accept a completely changed world economy, and a shift of power away from where it has been the last 50 to 100 to 150 years, back to Asia?

  Hans Rosling

  Country, War, Inspiration

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• That's universal - we all want to bring every good thing to our children. But what's not universal is our ability to provide every good thing.

  Melinda Gates

  Children, Inspiration, Want

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• Einstein comes along and says, space and time can warp and curve, that's what gravity is. Now string theory comes along and says, yes, gravity, quantum mechanics, electromagnetism - all together in one package, but only if the universe has more dimensions than the ones that we see.

  Brian Greene

  Inspiration, Curves, Space

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• The last chapter in any successful genocide is the one in which the oppressor can remove their hands and say, 'My God, what are these people doing to themselves? They're killing each other. They're killing themselves while we watch them die.' This is how we came to own these United States. This is the legacy of manifest destiny.

  Aaron Huey

  Inspiration, Successful, Destiny

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• People with dirty jobs are happier than you think. As a group, they're the happiest people I know.

  Mike Rowe

  Jobs, Dirty, Inspiration

  "Are People With 'Dirty Jobs' The Most Successful?". Interview with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. November 1, 2013.

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• An innovator is one who does not know it cannot be done.

  Raghunath Anant Mashelkar

  Motivational, Inspiration, Innovation

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• Ten percent of American businesses disappear every year. ... It's far higher than the failure rate of, say, Americans. Ten percent of Americans don't disappear every year. Which leads us to conclude American businesses fail faster than Americans, and therefore American businesses are evolving faster than Americans.

  Tim Harford

  Inspiration, Years, Failing

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• You think of yourselves as human beings, but I think of you as 99 percent bacterial.

  Bonnie Bassler

  Inspiration, Thinking, Think Of You

  "How bacteria 'talk'". TED conference, www.ted.com. February 2009.

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• We all hate moral ambiguity in some sense, and yet it is also absolutely necessary. In writing a story, it is the place where I begin.

  Amy Tan

  Hate, Inspiration, Writing

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• [A community chalkboard is] about knowing you're not alone. It's about understanding our neighbors in new and enlightening ways.

  Candy Chang

  Inspiration, Knowing, Community

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• Real science is all about critically appraising the evidence for somebody else's position.

  Ben Goldacre

  Real, Inspiration, Evidence

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