Motivation Quotes - Page 28

• Don't persuade, defend or interrupt. Be curious, be conversational, be real. And listen.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Real, Inspiration, Curious

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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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• 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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• I see the God complex around me all the time in my fellow economists. I see it in our business leaders. I see it in the politicians we vote for - people who, in the face of an incredibly complicated world, are nevertheless absolutely convinced that they understand the way that the world works.

  Tim Harford

  Inspiration, Complicated World, People

  "Trial, error and the God complex". TED conference, www.ted.com. July 2011.

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• I was holding [my four-year-old daughter] and I said, 'Sophia, I love you more than anything in the universe.' And she turned to me and said, 'Daddy, universe or multiverse?'

  Brian Greene

  Daughter, I Love You More, Inspiration

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• Urban retrofitting: creating different sorts of spaces and uses out of places that are already there.

  Alex Steffen

  Inspiration, Creating, Space

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• It's hard to reach [the age of] 100. We're not programmed for longevity. We are programmed for something called procreative success.

  Dan Buettner

  Inspiration, Age, Longevity

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• I became Vulnerability TED, like an action figure - like Ninja Barbie, but I'm Vulnerability TED.

  Brené Brown

  Inspiration, Barbie, Ninja

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• What I'm really worried about is war. Will the former rich countries really accept a completely changed world economy, and a shift of power away from where it has been the last 50 to 100 to 150 years, back to Asia?

  Hans Rosling

  Country, War, Inspiration

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• That's universal - we all want to bring every good thing to our children. But what's not universal is our ability to provide every good thing.

  Melinda Gates

  Children, Inspiration, Want

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• Einstein comes along and says, space and time can warp and curve, that's what gravity is. Now string theory comes along and says, yes, gravity, quantum mechanics, electromagnetism - all together in one package, but only if the universe has more dimensions than the ones that we see.

  Brian Greene

  Inspiration, Curves, Space

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• People with dirty jobs are happier than you think. As a group, they're the happiest people I know.

  Mike Rowe

  Jobs, Dirty, Inspiration

  "Are People With 'Dirty Jobs' The Most Successful?". Interview with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. November 1, 2013.

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• Race and class are extremely reliable indicators as to where one might find the good stuff, like parks and trees, and where one might find the bad stuff, like power plants and waste facilities.

  Majora Carter

  Inspiration, Race, Class

  "Greening the ghetto". TED conference, www.ted.com. February 2006.

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• Aesthetic judgments, rather than abstract reasoning, guide and shape the process by which we all come to know what we know.

  Daniel Tammet

  Inspiration, Shapes, Judgment

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• As a black person in America, I am twice as likely as a white person to live in an area where air pollution poses the greatest risk to my health. I am five times more likely to live within walking distance of a power plant or chemical facility, which I do.

  Majora Carter

  Distance, Inspiration, Air

  "Greening the ghetto". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February 2006.

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• We all hate moral ambiguity in some sense, and yet it is also absolutely necessary. In writing a story, it is the place where I begin.

  Amy Tan

  Hate, Inspiration, Writing

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• In perhaps 50 years, 60 years, we can finish completely this civilization, and offer to our children the possibility to invent a new story, a new poetry, a new romanticism.

  Philippe Starck

  Children, Inspiration, Years

  "Design and Destiny". TED Talk, March 2007.

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• [A community chalkboard is] about knowing you're not alone. It's about understanding our neighbors in new and enlightening ways.

  Candy Chang

  Inspiration, Knowing, Community

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• Real science is all about critically appraising the evidence for somebody else's position.

  Ben Goldacre

  Real, Inspiration, Evidence

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• If we are to move towards our collective bliss, it's time we shed our focus on the physical.

  Janine Shepherd

  Moving, Inspiration, Focus

  Janine Shepherd (2016). “Defiant: A Broken Body Is Not a Broken Person”, p.121, Sounds True

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• What if we could make energy do our work without working our undoing?

  Amory Lovins

  Inspiration, What If, Energy

  "Climate Change: No Breakthroughs Needed". sustainability.asu.edu. June 27, 2016.

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• The test of truth in life is not whether we can remember what we learned in school, but whether we are prepared for change.

  Andreas Schleicher

  Inspiration, School, Tests

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• The formula for a happy marriage is five positive remarks, or interactions, for every one negative.

  Nancy Etcoff

  Inspiration, Negative, Happy Marriage

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• 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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