Motivation Quotes - Page 31

• [For constructive conflict,] we have to resist the neurobiological drive which means that we really prefer people mostly like ourselves.

  Margaret Heffernan

  Inspiration, Mean, People

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• I could speak to you and say, 'Laytay-chai, paisey, paisey.' ... Why aren't you responding? Oh, you don't speak Swahili. Well, I've got news for you. The dog doesn't speak English, or American, or Spanish, or French.

  Ian Dunbar

  Dog, Inspiration, Speak English

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• Let's say you went to Harvard or Oxford or Cambridge, and you said, 'I've come here because I'm in search of morality, guidance and consolation; I want to know how to live,' - they would show you the way to the insane asylum.

  Alain de Botton

  Inspiration, Oxford, Insane

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• Years of concentration solely on work and individual success meant that in his retirement [Lyndon Johnson] could find no solace in family, in recreation, in sports or in hobbies. It was almost as if the hole in his heart was so large that even the love of a family, without work, could not fill it.

  Doris Kearns Goodwin

  Sports, Retirement, Inspiration

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• Music really is our daily medicine.

  Evelyn Glennie

  Inspiration, Medicine, Healthcare

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• Since the 1940s, we've been saying there are no differences, we [humans] are all identical. We're going to know at year end if that is true.

  Juan Enriquez

  Inspiration, Years, Year End

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• Anything that makes it easier to imagine trading places with someone else increases your moral consideration for that other person.

  Steven Pinker

  Inspiration, Moral, Imagine

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• Humor relies on the traditions of a society. It takes what we know and it twists it. ... Because women are on the ground floor, and we know the traditions so well, we can bring a different voice to the table.

  Liza Donnelly

  Inspiration, Voice, Twists

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• [Richard Feynman] truly believed that if you couldn't explain something simply, you didn't understand it.

  Leonard Susskind

  Inspiration, Simply You, Richard Feynman

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• If we had no bias, if we had no preconceptions, what kind of forms could we design?

  Michael Hansmeyer

  Motivational, Inspiration, Design

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• While the political right may moralize sex, the political left is doing it with food. Food is becoming extremely moralized nowadays, and a lot of it is ideas about purity, about what you're willing to touch, or put into your body.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Sex, Inspiration, Ideas

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• In the world of the Middle East at the moment, the debates are shrill. But ... the wisest voice of all of them may well be the voice of this mute thing, the Cyrus cylinder.

  Neil MacGregor

  Inspiration, Voice, Middle East

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• More people die on a per mile basis from drunk walking than from drunk driving.

  A. J. Jacobs

  Inspiration, People, Drunk

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• I no longer try to be right; I choose to be happy.

  Ric Elias

  Inspiration, Trying, Choose To Be Happy

  "3 things I learned while my plane crashed". TED conference, www.ted.com. March 2011.

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• Are we at some kind of evolutionary equipoise as a species? Or, are we destined to become something different - something, perhaps, even better adapted to the environment?

  Harvey V. Fineberg

  Inspiration, Different, Kind

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• Both my nine- and seven-year-olds have a stockbroker already.

  Cameron Herold

  Inspiration, Years, Nine

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• You take [mammary] cells, you put them in a dish, and within three days ... they don't make milk. They completely forget.

  Mina Bissell

  Inspiration, Cells, Three

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• Why, in our age of science, [do] we still have laws and policies which come from an age of superstition?

  Shereen El Feki

  Inspiration, Law, Age

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• Our world leaders ... need our help. They need the cavalry, and the cavalry's not going to come from Mars; it's got to come from us.

  Jamie Drummond

  Inspiration, Our World, Leader

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• The truth won't set us free until we develop the skills and the habit and the talent and the moral courage to use it.

  Margaret Heffernan

  Inspiration, Skills, Use

  "Dare to disagree". TED conference, www.ted.com. June 2012.

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• When you prohibit failure, you kill innovation. If you kill innovation in fundraising, you can't raise more revenue. If you can't raise more revenue, you can't grow. And if you can't grow, you can't possibly solve large social problems.

  Dan Pallotta

  Inspiration, Fundraising, Innovation

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• Why do economists fall in love with authoritarian governments?

  Yasheng Huang

  Falling In Love, Inspiration, Government

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• Compassion has enemies, and those enemies are things like pity, moral outrage, fear.

  Joan Halifax

  Inspiration, Compassion, Enemy

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• It's tens of millions of calculations just to design one connection between a piece of structural steel and another piece of structural steel.

  Greg Lynn

  Inspiration, Design, Connections

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• The point about democracy is not that it delivers legitimate, effective, prosperous rule of law. It's not that it guarantees peace with itself or with its neighbors. ... Democracy matters because it reflects an idea of equality.

  Rory Stewart

  Inspiration, Law, Ideas

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