Motivation Quotes - Page 32

• [Americans] think that choice, as seen through the American lens, best fulfills an innate and universal desire for choice in all humans. Unfortunately, these beliefs are based on assumptions that don't always hold true in many countries, in many cultures.

  Sheena Iyengar

  Country, Inspiration, Thinking

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

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• I said, 'Don, what's sustainable about feeding chicken to fish?'

  Dan Barber

  Inspiration, Feeding, Chickens

  "How I fell in love with a fish". TED conference, www.ted.com. February 2010.

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• Maybe we all need to leave our children with a value legacy, and not a financial one. A value for things with a personal touch - an autographed book, a soul-searching letter.

  Lakshmi Pratury

  Children, Book, Inspiration

  "What Can We Gain By Writing A Letter By Hand?". Interview with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. August 26, 2016.

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• [There are] unseen objects that await us, if we as architects begin to think about designing not the object, but a process to generate objects.

  Michael Hansmeyer

  Inspiration, Thinking, Design

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• You have treated the arts as the cherry on the cake. It needs to be the yeast.

  Mallika Sarabhai

  Art, Inspiration, Cake

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• If we don't manage to implement the Golden Rule globally, so that we treat all peoples, wherever and whoever they may be, as though they were as important as ourselves, I doubt that we'll have a viable world to hand on to the next generation.

  Karen Armstrong

  Inspiration, Hands, Doubt

  "Karen Armstrong Builds A 'Case For God'". Interview with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 21, 2009.

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• [As a conductor] there has to be, between me and the orchestra, an unshakable bond of trust, born out of mutual respect, through which we can spin a musical narrative that we all believe in.

  Charles Hazlewood

  Believe, Inspiration, Musical

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• We're at a point in time which is analogous to when single-celled organisms were turning into multi-celled organisms. So we're the amoebas.

  Danny Hillis

  Inspiration, Organisms

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• HIV brings out the best and the worst in humanity, and the laws reflect these attitudes.

  Shereen El Feki

  Attitude, Inspiration, Law

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• By loving and leaving all that oil has done for us ... we are able to then begin the creation of a world which is more resilient, more nourishing, and in which we find ourselves fitter, more skilled and more connected to each other.

  Rob Hopkins

  Inspiration, Oil, Leaving

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• It is this breathtaking image [of] success that motivates us and motivates kids to follow and understand rocket science: to understand the importance of physics and math and, in many ways, to have that awe at exploration of the frontiers of the unknown.

  Steve Jurvetson

  Inspiration, Kids, Math

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• The power of mathematics is often to change one thing into another, to change geometry into language.

  Marcus du Sautoy

  Inspiration, Language, Mathematics

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• If we could convert 0.03 percent of the sunlight that falls on the earth into energy, we could meet all of our projected needs for 2030.

  Ray Kurzweil

  Fall, Inspiration, Energy

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• Modern language must be older than the cave paintings and cave engravings and cave sculptures and dance steps in the soft clay in the caves in Western Europe, in the Aurignacian Period some 35,000 years ago, or earlier. I can't believe they did all those things and didn't also have a modern language.

  Murray Gell-Mann

  Believe, Inspiration, Years

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• The software programs that make our body run ... were evolved in very different times. We'd like to actually change those programs. One little software program, called the fat insulin receptor gene, basically says, 'Hold onto every calorie, because the next hunting season may not work out so well.' That was in the interests of the species tens of thousands of years ago. We'd like to turn that program off.

  Ray Kurzweil

  Running, Inspiration, Hunting

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• As the world is getting smaller, it becomes more and more important that we learn each other's dance moves, that we meet each other, we get to know each other, we are able to figure out a way to cross borders, to understand each other, to understand people's hopes and dreams, what makes them laugh and cry.

  Jehane Noujaim

  Dream, Moving, Inspiration

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• We transform the world, but we don't remember it. We adjust our baseline to the new level, and we don't recall what was there.

  Daniel Pauly

  Inspiration, World, Levels

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• We are like the birds. We adapt. We sing.

  David Byrne

  Inspiration, Bird

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• For 200 years, the West has been so dominant in the world that it's not really needed to understand other cultures, other civilizations. Because, at the end of the day, it could, if necessary by force, get its own way.

  Martin Jacques

  Inspiration, Years, Other Cultures

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• We don't just respond to things as we see them, or feel them, or hear them. Rather, our response is conditioned on our beliefs, about what they really are, what they came from, what they're made of, what their hidden nature is.

  Paul Bloom

  Inspiration, Belief, Made

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• [Conservatives] go to church, they do lots of things for free for each other. They hold potluck dinners. ... They serve food to poor people. They share, they give, they give away for free. It's the very same people leading Wall Street firms who, on Sundays, show up and share.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Wall, Inspiration, Sunday

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• I have stepped outside my comfort zone enough to know that, yes, the world does fall apart, but not in the way that you fear.

  Tan Le

  Fall, Inspiration, Comfort

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• I had drunk our great cultural Kool-Aid about regret, which is that lamenting things that occurred in the past is an absolute waste of time, that we should always look forward and not backward, and that one of the noblest and best things we can do is strive to live a life free of regrets.

  Kathryn Schulz

  Regret, Inspiration, Past

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• There is a growing subculture of barefoot runners, people who got rid of their shoes. And what they have found uniformly is you get rid of the shoes, you get rid of the stress, you get rid of the injuries and the ailments.

  Christopher McDougall

  Stress, Inspiration, Shoes

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• Having an experience is taking part in the world. Taking part in the world is really about sharing responsibility.

  Olafur Eliasson

  Life, Inspiration, Responsibility

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