Motivation Quotes - Page 26

• I daydreamed for motivation. I didn't lie to myself and talk about my passions and how if I was passionate enough about something I could be successful at it.

  Mark Cuban

  Lying, Passion, Successful

  "MARK CUBAN: Here's What You Need To Know Before Starting A Business" by Max Nisen, www.businessinsider.com. December 24, 2012.

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• Your child will live a life ten years younger than you because of the landscape of food that we've built around them.

  Jamie Oliver

  Children, Inspiration, Years

  "Teach every child about food". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February 2010.

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• Very many people go through their whole lives having no real sense of what their talents may be, or if they have any to speak of.

  Ken Robinson

  Real, Inspiration, People

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• The next time you're looking at a charity, don't ask about the rate of their overhead. Ask about the scale of their dreams.

  Dan Pallotta

  Dream, Inspiration, Charity

  "The way we think about charity is dead wrong". TED Talk, www.ted.com. March 2013.

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• I've been shot down so many times, I get altitude sickness just from standing up for myself.

  Shane Koyczan

  Inspiration, Sickness, Shots

  "To This Day ... for the bullied and beautiful". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February 2013.

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• Vulnerability pushed, I pushed back. I lost the fight, but probably won my life back.

  Brené Brown

  Inspiration, Fighting, Lost

  "The power of vulnerability". TED Talk, www.ted.com. June 2010.

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• What's it like to be a baby? It's like being in love in Paris for the first time after you've had three double espressos.

  Alison Gopnik

  Baby, Inspiration, Being In Love

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• If you want to destroy something in this life, be it an acne, a blemish or the human soul, all you need to do is to surround it with thick walls. It will dry up inside.

  Elif Safak

  Wall, Inspiration, Dry Up

  "The politics of fiction". TED conference, www.ted.com. July 2010.

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• The very ingredients that nurture love - mutuality, reciprocity, protection, worry, responsibility for the other - are sometimes the very ingredients that stifle desire.

  Esther Perel

  Inspiration, Responsibility, Worry

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• [Models] have the thinnest thighs, the shiniest hair and the coolest clothes, and they're the most physically insecure women probably on the planet.

  Cameron Russell

  Inspiration, Insecure, Hair

  "Looks aren't everything. Believe me, I'm a model". TED Talk, www.ted.com. October 2012.

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• We are educating people out of their creative capacities.

  Ken Robinson

  Education, Inspiration, People

  "Do schools kill creativity?". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February 2006.

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• Babies all over the world are what I like to describe as 'citizens of the world.' They can discriminate all the sounds of all languages, no matter what country we're testing and what language we're using.

  Patricia K. Kuhl

  Country, Baby, Inspiration

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• Don't be arrogant, because arrogance kills curiosity and passion.

  Mina Bissell

  Inspiration, Passion, Arrogance

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• Below an income of ... $60,000 a year, people are unhappy, and they get progressively unhappier the poorer they get. Above that, we get an absolutely flat line. ... Money does not buy you experiential happiness, but lack of money certainly buys you misery.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Inspiration, Years, People

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• Women, we care a great deal about being thin and good looking, whereas men mostly care about sex - ideally with women who are thinner and better looking than they are.

  Jenna McCarthy

  Sex, Inspiration, Men

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• We've got to cut the extraneous out of our lives, and we've got to learn to stem the inflow. We need to think before we buy. Ask ourselves, 'Is that really going to make me happier? Truly?'

  Graham Hill

  Inspiration, Cutting, Thinking

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• I regretted the time I wasted on things that did not matter with people that [do] matter.

  Ric Elias

  Inspiration, People, Matter

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• It stands to reason that we love chocolate cake because it is sweet. Guys go for girls like this because they are sexy. We adore babies because they're so cute. And, of course, we are amused by jokes because they are funny. This is all backwards. It is. And Darwin shows us why.

  Daniel Dennett

  Cute, Girl, Sexy

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• If we see someone in a wheelchair, we assume they cannot walk. It may be that they can walk three, four, five steps. That, to them, means they can walk.

  Evelyn Glennie

  Inspiration, Mean, Three

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• We are the most in-debt, obese, addicted and medicated adult cohort in U.S. history.

  Brené Brown

  Inspiration, Adults, Debt

  "The power of vulnerability". TED Talks, www.ted.com. June 2010.

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• For the past 50 years, we've been fishing the seas like we clear-cut forests. It's hard to overstate the destruction. Ninety percent of large fish, the ones we love - the tunas, the halibuts, the salmons, swordfish - they've collapsed.

  Dan Barber

  Inspiration, Cutting, Past

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• Peers can be the best teachers, because they're the ones that remember what it's like to not understand.

  Peter Norvig

  Teacher, Inspiration, Peers

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• Not one country in all the world has eliminated its economic participation [gender] gap - not one.

  Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

  Country, Inspiration, Gender Gap

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• That is why I took up the gun - not to shoot, not to kill, not to destroy, but to stop those who would do evil, to protect the vulnerable, to defend democratic values, to stand up for the freedom we have to talk ... about how we can make the world a better place.

  Peter van Uhm

  Inspiration, Gun, Evil

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• People who say ... they're perfectly fine [are] more insane than the rest of us.

  Ruby Wax

  Inspiration, People, Insane

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