Motivation Quotes - Page 29

• 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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• As a chemist, I wanted to ask myself the question frustrated by biology: What is the minimal unit of matter that can undergo Darwinian evolution?

  Leroy Cronin

  Inspiration, Frustrated, Matter

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• The redefined physician is human, knows she's human, accepts it ... and she works in a culture of medicine that acknowledges that human beings run the system.

  Dr. Brian Goldman

  Running, Inspiration, Medicine

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• A country like America has twice as much food on its shop shelves and in its restaurants than is actually required to feed the American people.

  Tristram Stuart

  Country, Inspiration, America

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• I think for most Americans, knowledge of the Islamic world was pretty slight before 9/11, and then it was thrust upon us in one of America's darkest hours.

  Thomas P. Campbell

  Inspiration, Islamic, Thinking

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• Is it music? ... This is not the important question. The important question is, is it interesting?

  Mark Applebaum

  Inspiration, Interesting, Important

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• If you want to live a life free of regret, there is an option open to you. It's called a lobotomy.

  Kathryn Schulz

  Regret, Inspiration, Want

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• We are trying to enable anyone in the world to be their own educational DJ, creating educational materials, sharing them with the world, constantly innovating on them.

  Richard Baraniuk

  Educational, Inspiration, Creating

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• The path to truly new, never-been-done-before things always has failure along the way.

  Regina E. Dugan

  Inspiration, Done, Way

  "Regina Dugan" by Heather Kelly, edition.cnn.com. October 2013.

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• I think we're going to move from a Homo sapiens into a Homo evolutis: ... a hominid that takes direct and deliberate control over the evolution of his species, her species and other species.

  Juan Enriquez

  Moving, Inspiration, Thinking

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• The law can seem remote, arcane, the stuff of specialists. But it isn't, because for those of us who live in democracies, the law begins with us.

  Shereen El Feki

  Inspiration, Law, Democracy

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• Art is not about objects of high monetary exchange. It's about reasserting our firsthand experience in present time.

  Antony Gormley

  Art, Inspiration, Present Time

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• Children ... smile as many as 400 times per day.

  Ron Gutman

  Children, Inspiration

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• 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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• [I've] learned how to pull the mic away and attack the poetry with my body.

  Lemon Andersen

  Inspiration, Body, I've Learned

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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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• The magic of the mechanisms inside each genetic structure saying exactly where that nerve cell should go - the complexity of these mathematical models is beyond human comprehension.

  Alexander Tsiaras

  Inspiration, Cells, Magic

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• If your economy grows [by] 4 percent, you ought to reduce child mortality 4 percent.

  Hans Rosling

  Children, Inspiration, Economy

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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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• [Bacteria] have an incredibly complicated chemical lexicon that ... allows bacteria to be multicellular. In the spirit of TED they're doing things together because it makes a difference.

  Bonnie Bassler

  Inspiration, Differences, Making A Difference

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• We are the biggest sissies in the jungle. Every other animal is stronger than we are - they have fangs, they have claws, they have nimbleness, they have speed. We think Usain Bolt is fast - Usain Bolt can get his ass kicked by a squirrel.

  Christopher McDougall

  Inspiration, Animal, Thinking

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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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• 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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• [Newlyweds,] these optimistic young bastards, promise to honor and cherish each other through hot flashes and mid-life crises and a cumulative 50-pound weight gain, until that far-off day when one of them is finally able to rest in peace. You know, because they can't hear the snoring anymore.

  Jenna McCarthy

  Rest In Peace, Inspiration, Optimistic

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