Motivation Quotes - Page 30

• No one person, no one alliance, no one nation, no one of us is as smart as all of us thinking together.

  James G. Stavridis

  Smart, Inspiration, Thinking

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• The question, 'Why does she stay?' is code for some people for, 'It's her fault for staying,' as if [domestic violence] victims intentionally choose to fall in love with men intent upon destroying us.

  Leslie Morgan Steiner

  Falling In Love, Inspiration, Men

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• I believe that women and girls today have to partner in a powerful way with men - with their fathers, with their sons, with their brothers, with the plumbers, the road builders, the caregivers, the doctors, the lawyers, with our president and with all beings.

  Joan Halifax

  Girl, Brother, Powerful

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• The sign of a masterpiece: A painting when there's a lack of resolution.

  Tracy Chevalier

  Inspiration, Painting, Resolution

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• Our economic competitors ... are eating us for lunch, and we can get in the game or not. We can be at the table, or we can be on the table.

  Jennifer Granholm

  Inspiration, Games, Lunch

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• Forget your environmental footprint. Think about your ethical footprint. What good is it to build a zero-carbon, energy efficient complex, when the labor producing this architectural gem is unethical at best?

  Cameron Sinclair

  Zero, Inspiration, Thinking

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• A great piece of comedy is a verbal magic trick.

  Chris Bliss

  Inspiration, Magic, Pieces

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• [My] hunger and thirst was, and still remains: How do I get people who hate poetry to love me?

  Lemon Andersen

  Hate, Inspiration, People

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• In many ways, the idea of resilience is a more useful concept than the idea of sustainability.

  Rob Hopkins

  Inspiration, Ideas, Resilience

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• It takes fifteen pounds of wild fish to get you one pound of farm tuna. Not very sustainable. It doesn't taste very good either.

  Dan Barber

  Inspiration, Tuna, Fifteen

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• Feminism, unlike almost every other social movement, is not a struggle against a distinct oppressor - it's not the ruling class or the occupiers or the colonizers - it's against a deeply held set of beliefs and assumptions that we women, far too often, hold ourselves.

  Kavita Ramdas

  Struggle, Inspiration, Class

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• [Anti-aging therapies will] never be perfect, but we'll be able to fix the things that 200-year-olds die of before we have any 200-year-olds, and the same for 300 and 400 and so on.

  Aubrey de Grey

  Inspiration, Years, Perfect

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• One of the founding moments of public health in the 19th century effectively poisoned the water supply of London much more effectively than any modern day bioterrorist could have ever dreamed of doing.

  Steven Johnson

  Inspiration, Water, London

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• Just because a person spends her time making a piece of something does not mean that she becomes that - a piece of something.

  Leslie T. Chang

  Inspiration, Mean, Doe

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

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• All other species on this planet are gene machines only. They don't imitate at all well; we alone are gene machines and meme machines as well.

  Susan Blackmore

  Inspiration, Machines, Genes

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• Just using a checklist requires [doctors] to embrace different values from ones we've had, like humility, discipline, teamwork.

  Atul Gawande

  Teamwork, Inspiration, Humility

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• The Centers for Disease Control says that men's violence against women is at epidemic proportions.

  Tony Porter

  Inspiration, Men, Epidemics

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• I was raised to believe that soldiers were strong and wise and brave and faithful; they didn't lie, cheat, steal or abandon their comrades.

  Stanley A. McChrystal

  Wise, Strong, Lying

  "Listen, learn ... then lead". TED Talks, www.ted.com. March 2011.

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• In life we encounter many people who, in some way or another, try to tattoo our faces.

  Dan Ariely

  Tattoo, Inspiration, People

  "Beware conflicts of interest". TED Talks, www.ted.com. March 2011.

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• First-generation children were strongly influenced by their immigrant parents' approach to choice. For them, choice was not just a way of defining and asserting their individuality, but a way to create community and harmony by deferring to the choices of people whom they trusted and respected.

  Sheena Iyengar

  Children, Inspiration, People

  "The art of choosing". TED conference, www.ted.com. July, 2010.

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• Microfinance is an incredibly powerful tool ... but we must move beyond micro-hopes and micro-ambitions for women.

  Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

  Powerful, Moving, Inspiration

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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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• Belief is the natural state of things. It is the default option. We just believe. We believe all sorts of things. Belief is natural; disbelief, skepticism, science, is not natural.

  Michael Shermer

  Believe, Inspiration, Belief

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• If you read folklore and mythology, any kind of myths, any kind of tall tales, running is always associated with freedom and vitality and youthfulness and eternal vigor. It's only in our lifetime that running has become associated with fear and pain.

  Christopher McDougall

  Running, Pain, Inspiration

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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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