Inspiring Quotes - Page 31

• My second piece of advice is to stay global. As the world continues to change and we become more connected to each other, globalization will bring both benefits and disruptions to our lives. But either way, it's here, and it's not going away.

  Barack Obama

  Advice, Going Away, Pieces

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• For me and Michelle, this visit has therefore held special meaning. Throughout my life, including my work as a young man on behalf of the urban poor, I have always found inspiration in the life of Gandhiji and in his simple and profound lesson to be the change we seek in the world. And just as he summoned Indians to seek their destiny, he influenced champions of equality in my own country, including a young Martin Luther King

  Barack Obama

  Country, Kings, Inspiration

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• For in Asia and around the world, India is not simply emerging; India has already emerged. And it is my firm belief that the relationship between the United States and India - bound by our shared interests and values - will be one of the defining partnerships of the 21st century. This is the partnership I have come here to build. This is the vision that our nations can realise together.

  Barack Obama

  Vision, Together, India

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• We believe that no matter where you live - whether a village in Punjab or the bylanes of Chandni Chowk, an old section of Kolkata or a new high-rise in Bangalore - every person deserves the same chance to live in security and dignity, to get an education, to find work, and to give their children a better future.

  Barack Obama

  Children, Believe, Giving

  Remarks to the Joint Session of the Indian Parliament in New Delhi, India, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. November 08, 2010.

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• And so you [young Americans]need to be the Idea Generation. The generation who's always thinking on the cutting edge, who's wondering how to create and keep the next wave of American jobs and American innovations, who's figuring out how to out-compete the Idea Generations of Indias and Chinas of the world.

  Barack Obama

  Jobs, Cutting, Thinking

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• [...] we must start by inspiring our children with a sense of purpose...by nurturing their imagination so that they may dream big and then work hard to reach those dreams. Too often, our children spend hours playing Playstation without ever finding out how to build Playstation. They watch television but never wonder how it's put together. They surf web page after web page on the Internet, but are never taught how to design one.

  Barack Obama

  Dream, Children, Hard Work

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• The walls between old allies on either side of the Atlantic cannot stand. The walls between the countries with the most and those with the least cannot stand. The walls between races and tribes; natives and immigrants; Christian and Muslim and Jew cannot stand. These now are the walls we must tear down. We know they have fallen before.

  Barack Obama

  Christian, Country, Wall

  Address to the People of Berlin, delivered 24 July 2008, Victory Column

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• These people are a part of me. And they are a part of America, this country that I love.

  Barack Obama

  Country, America, People

  A More Perfect Union, delivered 18 March 2008, Philadelphia, PA

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• But race is an issue that I believe this nation cannot afford to ignore right now. We would be making the same mistake that Reverend Wright made in his offending sermons about America - to simplify and stereotype and amplify the negative to the point that it distorts reality.

  Barack Obama

  Mistake, Believe, Reality

  A More Perfect Union, delivered 18 March 2008, Philadelphia, PA

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• And if we walk away now, if we simply retreat into our respective corners, we will never be able to come together and solve challenges like health care, or education, or the need to find good jobs for every American.

  Barack Obama

  Jobs, Challenges, Together

  A More Perfect Union, delivered 18 March 2008, Philadelphia, PA

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• Just as black anger often proved counterproductive, so have these white resentments distracted attention from the real culprits of the middle class squeeze - a corporate culture rife with inside dealing, questionable accounting practices, and short-term greed.

  Barack Obama

  Real, Practice, Class

  A More Perfect Union, delivered 18 March 2008, Philadelphia, PA

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• The profound mistake of Reverend Wright's sermons is not that he spoke about racism in our society. It's that he spoke as if our society was static; as if no progress has been made; as if this country - a country that has made it possible for one of his own members to run for the highest office in the land and build a coalition of white and black; Latino and Asian, rich and poor, young and old - is still irrevocably bound to a tragic past.

  Barack Obama

  Running, Country, Mistake

  Barack Obama, (2008). “Change We Can Believe In”, p.237, Canongate Books

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• For we have a choice in this country. We can accept a politics that breeds division, and conflict, and cynicism. We can tackle race only as spectacle - as we did in the OJ trial - or in the wake of tragedy, as we did in the aftermath of Katrina - or as fodder for the nightly news. We can play Reverend Wright's sermons on every channel, every day and talk about them from now until the election, and make the only question in this campaign whether or not the American people think that I somehow believe or sympathize with his most offensive words.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Believe, Thinking

  A More Perfect Union, delivered 18 March 2008, Philadelphia, PA

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• The incredible story of progress that is America has always been built by those who ask why, what if, and why not. Our schools must begin instilling that wonder in our children again so that their generation will unite around the next great project of our time, whether it be declaring America energy independent or launching the next great technological revolution.

  Barack Obama

  Children, School, Independent

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• The greatest danger of all is to allow new walls to divide us from one another

  Barack Obama

  Wall, Danger, Divides

  Address to the People of Berlin, delivered 24 July 2008, Victory Column

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• Character + Chance = Success

  N. R. Narayana Murthy

  Character, Chance

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• Teaching...can be likened to a conversation in which you listen to the speaker carefully before you reply.

  Marie Clay

  Teaching, Reading, Literacy

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• Kids not only need to read a lot but they need lots of books they can read right at their fingertips.They also need access to books that entice them, attract them to reading. Schools...can make it easy and unrisky for children to take books home for the evening or weekend by worrying less about losing books to children and more about losing children to illiteracy.

  Richard Allington

  Education, Children, Book

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• Make friends with angels.

  Saint Augustine

  Angel

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• I'm a believer that you accomplish much, much more with direct relationships than by using an intermediary. And that cash you keep in the bank can be the difference between staying alive as a small business, or not.

  Mark Cuban

  Differences, Entrepreneur, Alive

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• If you've got $25,000, $50,000, $100,000, you're better off paying off any debt you have because that's a guaranteed return.

  Mark Cuban

  Entrepreneur, Debt, Return

  "10 Tips Mark Cuban Would Give His Younger Self" by Drew Hendricks, www.inc.com.

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• What I do know, at least what I think I have learned from my experiences in business, is that when there is a rush for everyone to do the same thing, it becomes more difficult to do. Not easier. Harder.

  Mark Cuban

  Thinking, Entrepreneur, Easier

  "Shark musings". Sales & Marketing Management Interview, salesandmarketing.com. March 20, 2014.

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• To be truly visionary we have to root our imagination in our concrete reality while simultaneously imagining possibilities beyond that reality.

  Bell Hooks

  Reality, Roots, Imagination

  bell hooks (2014). “Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics”, p.110, Routledge

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• The greatest teacher is just going out and playing.

  George Benson

  Funny, Teacher, Going Out

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• The first effect marriage had on me was to increase my lack of interest in sex.... Actually our marriage was a sort of friendship with sexual privileges.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Sex, Firsts, Privilege

  Marilyn Monroe (2006). “My Story”, p.29, Taylor Trade Publishing

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