Motivation Quotes - Page 23

• Thirty days is just about the right amount of time to add a new habit or subtract a habit - like watching the news - from your life.

  Matt Cutts

  Inspiration, Add, News

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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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• As a magician, I think everything is possible. And I think if something is done by one person it can be done by others.

  David Blaine

  Inspiration, Thinking, Done

  "Is It Possible To Be Fearless?". Interview with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. May 23, 2014.

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• I'm both challenged and excited. My excitement is: I get a chance to give something back. My challenge is: The shortest seminar I usually do is 50 hours.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspiration, Giving, Challenges

  "Why we do what we do". TED conference, www.ted.com. February 2006.

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• Half of the energy is used by one seventh of the world's population.

  Hans Rosling

  Inspiration, Energy, Population

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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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• If you have democracy, people will vote for washing machines. They love them.

  Hans Rosling

  Inspiration, People, Democracy

  "The magic washing machine". TED Talk, www.ted.com. December 2010.

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• Your job as a leader is to try to inspire them to do more work than they've ever done in their life under conditions that they can't imagine.

  Paul Sereno

  Jobs, Inspiration, Leader

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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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• We don't really have a place in the universe, as far as on a timeline. But nothing else does either. Therefore every moment really is the most important moment that's ever happened, including this moment right now.

  Kaki King

  Inspiration, Important, Doe

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• The question, 'Why does she stay?' is code for some people for, 'It's her fault for staying,' as if [domestic violence] victims intentionally choose to fall in love with men intent upon destroying us.

  Leslie Morgan Steiner

  Falling In Love, Inspiration, Men

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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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• In [India] and across the globe, hundreds and thousands of children, as young as three, as young as four, are sold into sexual slavery. But that's not the only purpose that human beings are sold for. They are sold in the name of adoption. They are sold in the name of organ trade. They are sold in the name of forced labor, camel jockeying, anything, everything.

  Sunitha Krishnan

  Children, Inspiration, Names

  "The fight against sex slavery". TED Talk, www.ted.com. November 2009.

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• My experience from 20 years of Africa is that the seemingly impossible is possible.

  Hans Rosling

  Inspiration, Years, Impossible

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• The Chinese view the state, not just as an intimate member of the family ... but as the head of the family.

  Martin Jacques

  Inspiration, Views, Chinese

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• A great piece of comedy is a verbal magic trick.

  Chris Bliss

  Inspiration, Magic, Pieces

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• It takes fifteen pounds of wild fish to get you one pound of farm tuna. Not very sustainable. It doesn't taste very good either.

  Dan Barber

  Inspiration, Tuna, Fifteen

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• It [doesn't matter] what you look like, where you come from, or what you do for a living. All that matters is that we continue to fan the flame of humanity by living our lives as the ultimate creative expression of who we really are.

  Janine Shepherd

  Inspiration, Expression, Flames

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• Feminism, unlike almost every other social movement, is not a struggle against a distinct oppressor - it's not the ruling class or the occupiers or the colonizers - it's against a deeply held set of beliefs and assumptions that we women, far too often, hold ourselves.

  Kavita Ramdas

  Struggle, Inspiration, Class

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• [Anti-aging therapies will] never be perfect, but we'll be able to fix the things that 200-year-olds die of before we have any 200-year-olds, and the same for 300 and 400 and so on.

  Aubrey de Grey

  Inspiration, Years, Perfect

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• Just because a person spends her time making a piece of something does not mean that she becomes that - a piece of something.

  Leslie T. Chang

  Inspiration, Mean, Doe

  "The voices of China's workers". TED conference, www.ted.com. June 2012.

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• If you want to know about Africa, read our literature - and not just 'Things Fall Apart,' because that would be like saying, 'I've read 'Gone with the Wind' and so I know everything about America.'

  Chris Abani

  Fall, Inspiration, Wind

  "Telling stories from Africa". Talk at TED conference, www.ted.com. June, 2007.

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• Just using a checklist requires [doctors] to embrace different values from ones we've had, like humility, discipline, teamwork.

  Atul Gawande

  Teamwork, Inspiration, Humility

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• Improvisation is empowering because it welcomes the unknown. And since what's impossible is always unknown, it allows me to believe I can cheat the impossible.

  Philippe Petit

  Believe, Inspiration, Empowering

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• I was raised to believe that soldiers were strong and wise and brave and faithful; they didn't lie, cheat, steal or abandon their comrades.

  Stanley A. McChrystal

  Wise, Strong, Lying

  "Listen, learn ... then lead". TED Talks, www.ted.com. March 2011.

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