Inspiration Quotes - Page 25

• The issue isn't the accuracy of the bombs you have, it's how you use the bombs you have - and more importantly, whether you ought to use bombs at all.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Motivation, Technology, Issues

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• I began to see my body like an iPad or a car. I would drive it and demand things from it. It had no limits. It was invincible. It was to be conquered and mastered like the Earth herself.

  Eve Ensler

  Motivation, Technology, Ipads

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• When you factor in population growth, it's clear that the mobility model that we have today simply will not work tomorrow. Four billion clean cars on the road are still four billion cars, and a traffic jam with no emissions is still a traffic jam.

  Bill Ford

  Motivation, Technology, Car

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• An interface can be a powerful narrative device. And as we collect more and more personally and socially relevant data, we have an opportunity, and maybe even an obligation, to maintain [our] humanity and tell some amazing stories.

  Aaron Koblin

  Motivation, Powerful, Technology

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• On street corners everywhere, people are looking at their cell phones, and it's easy to dismiss this as some sort of bad trend in human culture. But the truth is life is being lived there.

  Ze Frank

  Motivation, Technology, Cells

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• Social networks are these intricate things of beauty, and they're so elaborate and so complex and so ubiquitous that one has to ask what purpose they serve.

  Nicholas A. Christakis

  Motivation, Technology, Purpose

  "How Do Our Social Networks Affect Our Health?". 'TED Radio Hour' with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. March 4, 2016.

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• Robots are emotionless, so they don't get upset if their buddy is killed, they don't commit crimes of rage and revenge. But ... they see an 80-year-old grandmother in a wheelchair the same way they see a T80 tank; they're both just a series of zeros and ones.

  P. W. Singer

  Revenge, Motivation, Grandmother

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• What one Predator drone pilot described of his experience fighting in the Iraq war while never leaving Nevada: 'You're going to war for 12 hours, shooting weapons at targets, directing kills on enemy combatants. Then you get in the car and you drive home, and within 20 minutes you're sitting at the dinner table talking to your kids about their homework.'

  P. W. Singer

  Motivation, War, Kids

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• Two big questions that people ask me are: if we make these robots more and more human-like, will we accept them - will they need rights eventually? And the other question people ask me is, will they want to take over?

  Rodney Brooks

  Motivation, Technology, Two

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• Suddenly, we humans - a recently arrived species, no longer subject to the checks and balances inherent in nature - have grown in population, technology and intelligence to a position of terrible power.

  Paul MacCready

  Motivation, Technology, Balance

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• The Harvard Business Review recently had an article called 'The Human Moment,' about how to make real contact with a person at work: ... The fundamental thing you have to do is turn off your BlackBerry, close your laptop, end your daydream and pay full attention to the person.

  Daniel Goleman

  Motivation, Real, Technology

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• There is a newly coined word in the English language for the moment when the person we're with whips out their BlackBerry or answers that cell phone, and all of a sudden we don't exist. The word is 'pizzled': it's a combination of puzzled and pissed off.

  Daniel Goleman

  Motivation, Technology, Phones

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• If you have time to breathe you have time to meditate. You breathe when you walk. You breathe when you stand. You breathe when you lie down.

  Ajahn Amaro

  Lying, Meditation Practice, Breathe

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• You should not be carried away by the dictation of the mind, but the mind should be carried by your dictation.

  A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

  Practice, Meditation, Mind

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• If what you are doing is not moving you towards your goals, then it's moving you away from your goals.

  Brian Tracy

  Success, Wise, Business

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from May 02, 2012

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• Teenagers learn best by doing things, they learn best in teams and they learn best by doing things for real - all the opposite of what mainstream schooling actually does.

  Geoff Mulgan

  Children, Motivation, Real

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• I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're Doing Something.

  Neil Gaiman

  Change, Wisdom, New Year

  "My New Year Wish" by Neil Gaiman, journal.neilgaiman.com. December 31, 2011.

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• Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365-page book. Write a good one.

  Brad Paisley

  Motivational, New Year, Book

  Twitter post from Dec 31, 2009

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• I have the opportunity, once more to right some wrongs, to pray for peace, to plant some trees, and sing more joyful songs.

  William Arthur Ward

  Inspiring, New Year, Song

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• Maybe this year, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives not looking for flaws, but looking for potential.

  Ellen Goodman

  Inspiring, New Year, Years

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• Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Knowledge, Light, Heaven

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.419, Simon and Schuster

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• Because if you're prepared and you know what it takes, it's not a risk. You just have to figure out how to get there. There is always a way to get there.

  Mark Cuban

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Success

  "Mark Cuban: What I've Learned" by Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. November 17, 2008.

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• No nice men are good at getting taxis.

  Katharine Whitehorn

  Wedding, Nice, Men

  Observer 1977

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• Talent alone is not enough. I believe that a really good gymnast is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration.

  Vladislav Rastorotsky

  Motivational, Believe, Gymnastics

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• Sports are 90% inspiration and 10% perspiration.

  Johnny Miller

  Success, Sports, Perspiration

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