Motivation Quotes - Page 21

• 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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• 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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• Aesthetic judgments, rather than abstract reasoning, guide and shape the process by which we all come to know what we know.

  Daniel Tammet

  Inspiration, Shapes, Judgment

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• As a black person in America, I am twice as likely as a white person to live in an area where air pollution poses the greatest risk to my health. I am five times more likely to live within walking distance of a power plant or chemical facility, which I do.

  Majora Carter

  Distance, Inspiration, Air

  "Greening the ghetto". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February 2006.

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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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• In perhaps 50 years, 60 years, we can finish completely this civilization, and offer to our children the possibility to invent a new story, a new poetry, a new romanticism.

  Philippe Starck

  Children, Inspiration, Years

  "Design and Destiny". TED Talk, March 2007.

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• Racism is predictable. It's predicted by interaction or lack thereof with people unlike you, people of other races.

  Nate Silver

  Inspiration, Race, Racism

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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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• If we are to move towards our collective bliss, it's time we shed our focus on the physical.

  Janine Shepherd

  Moving, Inspiration, Focus

  Janine Shepherd (2016). “Defiant: A Broken Body Is Not a Broken Person”, p.121, Sounds True

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• What if we could make energy do our work without working our undoing?

  Amory Lovins

  Inspiration, What If, Energy

  "Climate Change: No Breakthroughs Needed". sustainability.asu.edu. June 27, 2016.

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• I can't promise my child a life without bias - we're all biased - but I promise to bias my child with multiple perspectives.

  K.K. Raghava

  Children, Inspiration, Perspective

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• My role [as a war correspondent] is to bring a voice to people who are voiceless [and] to shine a light in the darkest corners of the world.

  Janine di Giovanni

  War, Inspiration, Light

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• [Language is] really a pretty amazing invention if you think about it. Here I have a very complicated, messy, confused idea in my head. I'm sitting here making grunting sounds and hopefully constructing a similar messy, confused idea in your head that bears some analogy to it.

  Danny Hillis

  Confused, Inspiration, Thinking

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• When they teach [doctors] how to suture, they also teach them how to stitch their self-worth to being all-powerful.

  Brené Brown

  Powerful, Inspiration, Self Worth

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• The redefined physician is human, knows she's human, accepts it ... and she works in a culture of medicine that acknowledges that human beings run the system.

  Dr. Brian Goldman

  Running, Inspiration, Medicine

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• Trade is 10 times as old as farming.

  Matt Ridley

  Inspiration, Farming, Trade

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• We, all of us, are what happens when a primordial mixture of hydrogen and helium evolves for so long that it begins to ask where it came from.

  Jill Tarter

  Inspiration, Long, Mixtures

  "Join the SETI search". TED conference, www.ted.com. February 2009.

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• [It's] useful to ask ourselves, 'Just how global are we?' before we think about where we go from here.

  Pankaj Ghemawat

  Inspiration, Thinking, Asks

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• Is it music? ... This is not the important question. The important question is, is it interesting?

  Mark Applebaum

  Inspiration, Interesting, Important

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• If you want to live a life free of regret, there is an option open to you. It's called a lobotomy.

  Kathryn Schulz

  Regret, Inspiration, Want

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• We are trying to enable anyone in the world to be their own educational DJ, creating educational materials, sharing them with the world, constantly innovating on them.

  Richard Baraniuk

  Educational, Inspiration, Creating

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• The path to truly new, never-been-done-before things always has failure along the way.

  Regina E. Dugan

  Inspiration, Done, Way

  "Regina Dugan" by Heather Kelly, edition.cnn.com. October 2013.

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• I think we're going to move from a Homo sapiens into a Homo evolutis: ... a hominid that takes direct and deliberate control over the evolution of his species, her species and other species.

  Juan Enriquez

  Moving, Inspiration, Thinking

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