Motivation Quotes - Page 22

• It's not an 'either/or,' it's an 'and.' You can be serious and play.

  Tim Brown

  Inspiration, Play, Serious

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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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• We, the people, do have the power to stop the tragic waste of resources if we regard it as socially unacceptable to waste food.

  Tristram Stuart

  Inspiration, People, Waste

  "Food waste solutions: cuttlefish testicles and pigs' heads" by Alex Renton, www.theguardian.com. February 6, 2014.

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• A country like America has twice as much food on its shop shelves and in its restaurants than is actually required to feed the American people.

  Tristram Stuart

  Country, Inspiration, America

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• As leaders, we understand that intangibles are important, but we don't have a clue how to measure them.

  Chip Conley

  Inspiration, Leader, Important

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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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• We go into rural communities and all we do, like has been done in this room, is create the space. When these girls sit, you unlock intelligence, you unlock passion, you unlock commitment, you unlock focus, you unlock great leaders.

  Leymah Gbowee

  Girl, Inspiration, Space

  "Unlock the Intelligence, Passion, Greatness of Girls". TED Talk, www.ted.com. March 2012.

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• The British government - any government - is potentially the worst [architectural] client in the world.

  Thomas Heatherwick

  Inspiration, Government, World

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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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• A better way to mutual respect is to engage directly with the moral convictions citizens bring to public life, rather than to require that people leave their deepest moral convictions outside politics before they enter.

  Michael Sandel

  Inspiration, People, Citizens

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• Today, the average Korean works a thousand hours more a year than the average German. A thousand. ... That is the end of the Great Divergence.

  Niall Ferguson

  Inspiration, Average, Years

  "The 6 killer apps of prosperity". Ted conference, www.ted.com. 2011.

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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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• The law can seem remote, arcane, the stuff of specialists. But it isn't, because for those of us who live in democracies, the law begins with us.

  Shereen El Feki

  Inspiration, Law, Democracy

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• Art is not about objects of high monetary exchange. It's about reasserting our firsthand experience in present time.

  Antony Gormley

  Art, Inspiration, Present Time

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• [I've] learned how to pull the mic away and attack the poetry with my body.

  Lemon Andersen

  Inspiration, Body, I've Learned

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• It's incredibly dangerous to leave an abuser, because the final step in the domestic violence pattern is: kill her.

  Leslie Morgan Steiner

  Inspiration, Domestic Violence, Finals

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• If your economy grows [by] 4 percent, you ought to reduce child mortality 4 percent.

  Hans Rosling

  Children, Inspiration, Economy

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• If you like somebody, they look better to you. This is why spouses in happy marriages tend to think that their husband or wife looks much better than anyone else thinks that they do.

  Paul Bloom

  Husband, Inspiration, Thinking

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• Thirty-three percent of all of our regrets pertain to decisions we made about education.

  Kathryn Schulz

  Regret, Inspiration, Decision

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• We are the biggest sissies in the jungle. Every other animal is stronger than we are - they have fangs, they have claws, they have nimbleness, they have speed. We think Usain Bolt is fast - Usain Bolt can get his ass kicked by a squirrel.

  Christopher McDougall

  Inspiration, Animal, Thinking

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• If I filled the Earth with blueberries, I would have the same number as atoms in a grapefruit.

  Jonathan Bergmann

  Inspiration, Numbers, Atoms

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• Women's worst invention was the plow. With the beginning of plow agriculture, men's roles became extremely powerful. Women lost their ancient jobs as collectors.

  Helen Fisher

  Jobs, Powerful, Inspiration

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• [Newlyweds,] these optimistic young bastards, promise to honor and cherish each other through hot flashes and mid-life crises and a cumulative 50-pound weight gain, until that far-off day when one of them is finally able to rest in peace. You know, because they can't hear the snoring anymore.

  Jenna McCarthy

  Rest In Peace, Inspiration, Optimistic

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• No one person, no one alliance, no one nation, no one of us is as smart as all of us thinking together.

  James G. Stavridis

  Smart, Inspiration, Thinking

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• I believe that women and girls today have to partner in a powerful way with men - with their fathers, with their sons, with their brothers, with the plumbers, the road builders, the caregivers, the doctors, the lawyers, with our president and with all beings.

  Joan Halifax

  Girl, Brother, Powerful

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