Motivation Quotes - Page 27

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

  Ruby Wax

  Inspiration, People, Insane

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• Secrets can remind us of the countless human dramas, of frailty and heroism playing out silently in the lives of people all around us.

  Frank Warren

  Drama, Inspiration, People

  "Half a million secrets". TED conference, www.ted.com. February 2012.

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• When we're infused with either enthusiasm or awe or fondness ... it changes what we see. It changes what we remember.

  Robert Legato

  Inspiration, Enthusiasm, Remember

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• Even though I am a mathematician, I look at [fetal development] with marvel: How do these instruction sets not make mistakes as they build what is us?

  Alexander Tsiaras

  Mistake, Inspiration, Looks

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• When we recognize that we don't have all the time in the world, we see our priorities most clearly.

  Laura L. Carstensen

  Inspiration, Priorities, World

  "Older people are happier". TED Talk, www.ted.com. December 2011.

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• I have a neighbor who knows 200 types of wine. ... I only know two types of wine - red and white. But my neighbor only knows two types of countries - industrialized and developing. And I know 200.

  Hans Rosling

  Country, Travel, Inspiration

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• Humans in the developed world spend more than 90 percent of their lives indoors, where they breathe in and come into contact with trillions of life forms invisible to the naked eye: microorganisms.

  Jessica Green

  Inspiration, Eye, Naked

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• Positive findings are around twice as likely to be published as negative findings. This is a cancer at the core of evidence-based medicine.

  Ben Goldacre

  Cancer, Inspiration, Medicine

  A Rhetoric of Public Bias: How Doctors Are Mislead About the Drugs They Prescribe, delivered September 2012

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• We're no longer intimidated by math, because we're slowly redefining what math is.

  Dan Meyer

  Inspiration, Math, Redefining

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• Security is elusive. It's impossible. We all die. We all get old. We all get sick. People leave us. People change us. Nothing is secure.

  Eve Ensler

  Inspiration, People, Sick

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• Making systems work is the great task of my generation of physicians and scientists. But I would go further and say that making systems work - whether in healthcare, education, climate change, making a pathway out of poverty - is the great task of our generation as a whole.

  Atul Gawande

  Inspiration, Our Generation, Climate

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• I'm going to show you all how easy it is to manipulate the human mind once you know how.

  Keith Barry

  Inspiration, Mind, Easy

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• We no longer live in a world that is neatly divided between rich and well-educated countries, and poor and badly-educated ones.

  Andreas Schleicher

  Country, Inspiration, World

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• Information, if viewed from the point of view of food, is never a production issue. ... It's a consumption issue, and we have to start thinking about how we create diets [and] exercise.

  J.P. Rangaswami

  Inspiration, Exercise, Thinking

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• The number of children is not growing any longer in the world. We are still debating peak oil, but we have definitely reached peak child.

  Hans Rosling

  Children, Inspiration, Oil

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• Health cannot be bought at the supermarket. You have to invest in health. You have to get kids into schooling. You have to train health staff. You have to educate the population.

  Hans Rosling

  Inspiration, Kids, Population

  "The best stats you've ever seen". TED Talks, www.ted.com. February 2006.

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• You have to utilize who you are in your work. Nobody else can do that: nobody else can pull from your background, from your parents, your upbringing, your whole life experience.

  David Carson

  Inspiration, Parent, Life Experience

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• [A conductor's] happiness does not come from only his own story and his joy of the music. The joy is about enabling other people's stories to be heard at the same time.

  Itay Talgam

  Inspiration, People, Joy

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• You think that social media is about hooking up online? For these kids [in the Tunisian Revolution], it was a military tool to defend unarmed people from murderers.

  Don Tapscott

  Military, Inspiration, Kids

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• While I was at Microsoft, the annual revenues grew larger than the GDP of the Republic of Ghana.

  Patrick Awuah, Jr.

  Inspiration, Ghana, Gdp

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• [Psychics] use exactly the same gimmicks that we magicians do - the same physical methods, the same psychological methods - and they effectively and profoundly deceive millions of people around the earth, to their detriment.

  James Randi

  Inspiration, Psychics, People

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• If we ... capitalize on the very real strengths of older people, then added years of life can dramatically improve quality of life at all ages.

  Laura L. Carstensen

  Real, Inspiration, Years

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• [Introverts,] the world needs you and it needs the things you carry. So I wish you the best of all possible journeys and the courage to speak softly.

  Susan Cain

  Inspiration, Journey, Wish

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• In the 21st century, somebody or something has changed the rules about how our world works.

  Eddie Obeng

  Inspiration, Our World, Century

  "Smart failure for a fast-changing world". TED Talks, www.ted.com. June 2012.

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• By slowing down at the right moments, people find that they do everything better: They eat better; they make love better; they exercise better; they work better; they live better.

  Carl Honore

  Inspiration, Exercise, Love Is

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