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• The miracle of your mind isn't that you can see the world as it is. It's that you can see the world as it isn't.

  Kathryn Schulz

  Inspiration, Miracle, Mind

  "On being wrong". TED conference, www.ted.com. March 2011.

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• I try never to get too high when things are going well. I try never to get too low when things are going poorly. I try to keep an even keel.

  Barack Obama

  Trying, Lows, Keel

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• When death comes, it's just like winter. We don't say, "There ought not to be winter." That the winter season, when the leaves fall and the snow comes, is some kind of defeat, something which we should hold out against. No. Winter is part of the natural course of events. No winter, no summer. No cold, no heat.

  Alan Watts

  Life, Death, Summer

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• My best advice: Fall in love with what you do for a living.

  George Burns

  Falling In Love, Work, Advice

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• If you do something for fun and create the best possible product, then the profit will come.

  Richard Branson

  Fun, Work, Profit

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• You will be remembered, in the long haul, for the quality of your work, not the quantity of your work. No one evaluates Picasso based on the number of paintings he churned out.

  Tom Peters

  Work, Numbers, Long

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• I came to realize that visualizing, projecting yourself into a successful situation, is the most powerful means there is of achieving personal goals.

  Leonard Lauder

  Life, Powerful, Mean

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• QUESTION: Do you know what the greatest test is? ANSWER:Do you still get excited about what you do when you get up in the morning?

  David Halberstam

  Life, Morning, Answers

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• Thank God there were a couple of people in my life who said, "Go on, go on - you can do it!

  Barbra Streisand

  Life, Couple, People

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• I believe talent is like electricity. We don't understand electricity. We use it. You can plug into it and light up a lamp, keep a heart pump going, light a cathedral, or you can electrocute a person with it. Electricity will do all that. It makes no judgment. I think talent is like that. I believe every person is born with talent.

  Maya Angelou

  Life, Believe, Heart

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• There are three things, after all, that a poem must reach: the eye, the ear, and what we may call the heart or the mind. It is the most important of all to reach the heart of the reader.

  Robert Frost

  Life, Heart, Eye

  Robert Frost, Mark Richardson (2007). “The Collected Prose of Robert Frost”, p.301, Harvard University Press

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• When faced with a mountain, I WILL NOT QUIT! I will keep on striving until I climb over, find a pass through, tunnel underneath, or simply stay and turn the mountain into a gold mine with God's help!

  Robert H. Schuller

  Life, Tunnels, Gold

  Robert H. Schuller (2002). “The Be Happy Attitudes”, p.129, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The first thing a great person does is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Doe, Firsts

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• When you look at people who are successful, you will find that they aren't the people who are motivated, but have consistency in their motivation.

  Arsene Wenger

  Success, People, Consistency

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• Behavior is motivation filtered through opportunity.

  Clay Shirky

  Opportunity, Behavior

  "Cognitive Surplus: The Great Spare-Time Revolution". Interview with Daniel Pink, www.wired.com. May 24, 2010.

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• The multinational corporations now developing budgets often bigger than medium-sized countries — these live in a global space which is largely unregulated, not subject to the rule of law, and in which people may act free of constraint.

  Paddy Ashdown

  Country, Inspiration, Law

  "The global power shift". TED conference, www.ted.com. December 2011.

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• It didn't matter how good I was. It was always, 'You're a girl. You can't play with the guys.' It's always been motivation for me.

  Sheryl Swoopes

  Basketball, Girl, Play

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• Do not fear what has blown up. If you must, fear the unexploded.

  Suheir Hammad

  Inspiration, Do Not Fear, Ifs

  "Taking The Arab Freedom Movement Global Through Song" by Stephan Said, progressive.org. February 13, 2011.

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• The motivation is in my heart to work toward my goals and my dreams.

  Nonito Donaire

  Dream, Heart, Goal

  "Donaire vs Mathebula: Nonito Donaire on Drug Testing, Training, and a Taller Opponent". Press conference, www.badlefthook.com. June 28, 2012.

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• We are not wise enough, pure enough, or strong enough to aim and sustain such a single motive over a lifetime. That way lies fanaticism or failure. But if the single motive is the master motivation of God's calling, the answer is yes. In any and all situations, both today and tomorrow's tomorrow, God's call to us is the unchanging and ultimate whence, what, why, and whither of our lives. Calling is a 'yes' to God that carries a 'no' to the chaos of modern demands. Calling is the key to tracing the story line of our lives and unriddling the meaning of our existence in a chaotic world.

  Os Guinness

  Wise, Strong, Lying

  Os Guinness (2003). “The Call: Finding and Fulfilling the Central Purpose of Your Life”, p.170, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Heartbreak is the best motivation.

  Brendon Urie

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• The best way I have ever found to fill that hole is not to seek external motivations to fill the emptiness, but to ignite the internal fire that will never go out. To light up my own inner sky.

  James Altucher

  Fire, Light, Sky

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• We should spend less time at universities filling our students' minds with content by lecturing at them, and more time igniting their creativity … by actually talking with them.

  Daphne Koller

  Inspiration, Creativity, Talking

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• We all really need to listen to each other, including to the boring bits.

  Sherry Turkle

  Inspiration, Needs, Boring

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• If we're not able to be alone, we're going to be more lonely. And if we don't teach our children to be alone, they're only going to know how to be lonely.

  Sherry Turkle

  Lonely, Children, Inspiration

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