Motivation Quotes - Page 33

• Everything I'm going to present to you was not in my textbooks when I went to school ... not even in my college textbooks. I'm a geophysicist, and [in] all my Earth science books when I was a student - I had to give the wrong answer to get an A.

  Robert Ballard

  Book, Inspiration, School

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• Everything that can happen, does. That's quantum mechanics. But this does not mean everything happens. The rest of physics is about describing what can happen and what can't.

  Antony Garrett Lisi

  Inspiration, Mean, Doe

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• Don't negotiate with terrorists; patent trolls have done more damage to the United States economy than any domestic or foreign terrorist organization in history, every year.

  Drew Curtis

  Inspiration, Years, Organization

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• We're losing a ritual. We're losing a ritual that I believe is transformative, transcendent, and is at the heart of the patient-physician relationship.

  Abraham Verghese

  Believe, Inspiration, Heart

  "A doctor's touch". TED Talks, www.ted.com. July 2011.

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• It's not just about life, of course; it's about healthy life. Getting frail and miserable and dependent is no fun, whether or not dying may be fun.

  Aubrey de Grey

  Fun, Inspiration, Healthy

  "A roadmap to end aging". TED conference, www.ted.com. July 2005.

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• If China and India were as rich as the United States is today, the market for cancer drugs would be eight times larger than it is now.

  Alex Tabarrok

  Cancer, Inspiration, Eight

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• [We] administered testosterone to men; instead of sharing money, they become selfish. Interestingly, high testosterone males are also more likely to use their own money to punish others for being selfish.

  Paul J. Zak

  Selfish, Inspiration, Men

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• In a time where the world is becoming personalized, when the mobile phone, the burger, everything has its own personal identity, how should we perceive ourselves and how should we perceive others?

  Al-Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani

  Inspiration, Phones, Identity

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• What I consider to be peace [is] a sustainable peace in which the majority of people on this planet have access to enough resources to live dignified lives.

  Jody Williams

  Inspiration, People, Majority

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• What if every seemingly isolated object was actually just where the continuous wave of that object poked through into our world?

  Reuben Heyday Margolin

  Inspiration, Our World, What If

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• The chicken is a dinosaur. I mean, it really is. You can't argue with it, because we're the classifiers and we've classified it that way.

  Jack Horner

  Inspiration, Mean, Dinosaurs

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• We went to Ladakh ... and we asked this woman, 'What was the benefit you had from solar electricity?' And she thought for a minute and said, 'It's the first time I can see my husband's face in winter.'

  Bunker Roy

  Husband, Inspiration, Winter

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• A story is the relationship that you develop between who you are, or who you potentially are, and the infinite world.

  Shekhar Kapur

  Inspirational, Relationship, Who I Am

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• DNA ties us all together; we share ancestry with barracuda and bacteria and mushrooms, if you go far enough back.

  Spencer Wells

  Inspiration, Dna, Mushrooms

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• That was the first time I've drawn anything for seven years. I feel like I had been held underwater, and someone finally reached down and pulled my head up so I could breathe.

  Mick Ebeling

  Inspiration, Years, Underwater

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• Our bodies are home to trillions of microbes, and these creatures define who we are.

  Jessica Green

  Inspiration, Home, Body

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• How do I create something out of nothing? And how do I create my own life? I think it is by questioning, and saying to myself that there are no absolute truths.

  Amy Tan

  Inspiration, Thinking, Questioning

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• Think about what artists, novelists and poets have in common: the ability to engage in metaphorical thinking, linking seemingly unrelated ideas, such as, 'It is the east, and Juliet is the Sun.'

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

  Inspiration, Artist, Thinking

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• Back in the 1960s Africa not only fed itself, it also exported food. Not anymore.

  George Ayittey

  Inspiration, Feds, 1960s

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• Archives exist because there's something that can't necessarily be articulated. Something is said in the gaps between all the information.

  Taryn Simon

  Inspiration, Archives, Information

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• If everything is made up of little particles and all the little particles follow quantum mechanics, then shouldn't everything just follow quantum mechanics?

  Aaron D. O'Connell

  Inspiration, Littles, Mechanic

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• In health care today, we spend most of the dollars - in terms of treating disease - in the last two years of a person's life.

  David Agus

  Inspiration, Years, Two

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• I don't feel like a different person. My motivation has always been to do technology apps and companies, not making money. Just because the money's come, nothing's changed.

  Nick D'Aloisio

  Technology, Different, Making Money

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• Constantly scanning the world for the negative comes with a great cost. It undercuts our creativity, raises our stress levels, and lowers our motivation and ability to accomplish goals.

  Shawn Achor

  Stress, Creativity, Goal

  "The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology That Fuel Success and Performance at Work". Book by Shawn Achor, 2010.

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• The Broken Bow group is such a great family and seem like a group of tight-knit people. When I looked for a new label, I wanted to feel I could trust everybody. I wanted motivation to be at an all-time high.

  Fatima Siad

  People, Broken, Groups

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