Motivation Quotes - Page 24

• Chimpanzees, more than any other living creature, have helped us to understand that there is no sharp line between humans and the rest of the animal kingdom. It's a very blurry line, and it's getting more blurry all the time.

  Jane Goodall

  Inspiration, Animal, Lines

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• [It's] difficult to engage people in politics when they believe that what really matters is where they personally stand.

  Ivan Krastev

  Believe, Inspiration, People

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• If you took every nuclear weapon ever built at the height of the Cold War, lumped them together and blew them up at the same time, that would be one one-millionth of the energy released at that moment.

  Phil Plait

  War, Inspiration, Together

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• One thing that has made a big comeback just recently is this business of speaking with the dead. To my innocent mind, 'dead' implies incapable of communicating.

  James Randi

  Inspiration, Mind, Comeback

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• [For constructive conflict,] we have to resist the neurobiological drive which means that we really prefer people mostly like ourselves.

  Margaret Heffernan

  Inspiration, Mean, People

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• Let's say you went to Harvard or Oxford or Cambridge, and you said, 'I've come here because I'm in search of morality, guidance and consolation; I want to know how to live,' - they would show you the way to the insane asylum.

  Alain de Botton

  Inspiration, Oxford, Insane

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• Years of concentration solely on work and individual success meant that in his retirement [Lyndon Johnson] could find no solace in family, in recreation, in sports or in hobbies. It was almost as if the hole in his heart was so large that even the love of a family, without work, could not fill it.

  Doris Kearns Goodwin

  Sports, Retirement, Inspiration

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• Here we are, arguably the most intelligent being that's ever walked planet Earth, with this extraordinary brain ... and yet we're destroying the only home we have.

  Jane Goodall

  Inspiration, Home, Intelligent

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• Anything that makes it easier to imagine trading places with someone else increases your moral consideration for that other person.

  Steven Pinker

  Inspiration, Moral, Imagine

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• Everything I did, I did for mankind.

  Marco Tempest

  Inspiration, Mankind

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• [Richard Feynman] truly believed that if you couldn't explain something simply, you didn't understand it.

  Leonard Susskind

  Inspiration, Simply You, Richard Feynman

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• Chinese workers are not forced into factories because of our insatiable desire for iPods. They choose to leave their homes in order to earn money, to learn new skills, and to see the world.

  Leslie T. Chang

  Inspiration, Home, Order

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

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• Our family was too strange and weird for even Santa Claus to come visit ... Santa, who was jolly - but, let's face it, he was also very judgmental.

  Julia Sweeney

  Inspiration, Santa, Faces

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• There will be those who will tell you that you can't make it because of how you look, because of the way you talk. We all have heard that - I almost listened.

  Douglas Wilder

  Looks, Way, Heard

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• I love the valiant; but it is not enough to wield a broadsword, one must also know against whom.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Enough, Valiant, Knows

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.197, Penguin

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• I try never to get too high when things are going well. I try never to get too low when things are going poorly. I try to keep an even keel.

  Barack Obama

  Trying, Lows, Keel

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• When death comes, it's just like winter. We don't say, "There ought not to be winter." That the winter season, when the leaves fall and the snow comes, is some kind of defeat, something which we should hold out against. No. Winter is part of the natural course of events. No winter, no summer. No cold, no heat.

  Alan Watts

  Life, Death, Summer

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• You will be remembered, in the long haul, for the quality of your work, not the quantity of your work. No one evaluates Picasso based on the number of paintings he churned out.

  Tom Peters

  Work, Numbers, Long

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• I came to realize that visualizing, projecting yourself into a successful situation, is the most powerful means there is of achieving personal goals.

  Leonard Lauder

  Life, Powerful, Mean

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• QUESTION: Do you know what the greatest test is? ANSWER:Do you still get excited about what you do when you get up in the morning?

  David Halberstam

  Life, Morning, Answers

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• I believe talent is like electricity. We don't understand electricity. We use it. You can plug into it and light up a lamp, keep a heart pump going, light a cathedral, or you can electrocute a person with it. Electricity will do all that. It makes no judgment. I think talent is like that. I believe every person is born with talent.

  Maya Angelou

  Life, Believe, Heart

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• When faced with a mountain, I WILL NOT QUIT! I will keep on striving until I climb over, find a pass through, tunnel underneath, or simply stay and turn the mountain into a gold mine with God's help!

  Robert H. Schuller

  Life, Tunnels, Gold

  Robert H. Schuller (2002). “The Be Happy Attitudes”, p.129, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The first thing a great person does is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Doe, Firsts

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• Behavior is motivation filtered through opportunity.

  Clay Shirky

  Opportunity, Behavior

  "Cognitive Surplus: The Great Spare-Time Revolution". Interview with Daniel Pink, www.wired.com. May 24, 2010.

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• The multinational corporations now developing budgets often bigger than medium-sized countries — these live in a global space which is largely unregulated, not subject to the rule of law, and in which people may act free of constraint.

  Paddy Ashdown

  Country, Inspiration, Law

  "The global power shift". TED conference, www.ted.com. December 2011.

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