Motivation Quotes - Page 16

• One year of the world’s military spending equals 700 years of the U.N. budget and equals 2,928 years of the U.N. budget allocated for women.

  Zainab Salbi

  Military, Inspiration, Years

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• I find it amazing that the only group of people who are not fighting and not killing and not pillaging and not burning and not raping, and the group of people who are mostly — though not exclusively — who are keeping life going in the midst of war, are not included in the negotiating table.

  Zainab Salbi

  War, Inspiration, Fighting

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• If you can manage to experience three positive emotions for every one negative emotion … you dramatically improve your health and your ability to successfully tackle any problem you're facing.

  Jane McGonigal

  Inspiration, Negative, Three

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• A traumatic event doesn't doom us to suffer indefinitely. Instead, we can use it as a springboard to unleash our best qualities and lead happier lives.

  Jane McGonigal

  Inspiration, Suffering, Quality

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• Avatars are a way to express our true selves, our most heroic, idealized version of who we might become.

  Jane McGonigal

  Inspirational, Motivational, Self

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• Capitalism, perhaps at its most remorseless, is a physical manifestation of psychopathy.

  Jon Ronson

  Inspiration, Manifestation, Remorseless

  "Strange answers to the psychopath test". TED Talk, www.ted.com. March 2012.

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• We have a system of justice in [the US] that treats you much better if you're rich and guilty than if you're poor and innocent. Wealth, not culpability, shapes outcomes.

  Bryan Stevenson

  Inspiration, Justice, Shapes

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• Magic is all about directing attention. If I didn’t want you to look at my right hand then I don’t look at it.

  Keith Barry

  Inspiration, Hands, Magic

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• In American films, Russians are often portrayed like cartoon villains without clear motivations.

  Yuliya Snigir

  Cartoon, Film, Villain

  "'A Good Day to Die Hard's' Yuliya Snigir on Russian Stereotypes and 'Making It' in Hollywood (Q&A)". Interview with Irina Danilova, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 15, 2013.

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• Thanks to those pesky laws of physics, when things aren't sustainable, they stop.

  Paul Gilding

  Inspiration, Law, Thanks

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• It takes a good crisis to get us going. When we feel fear and we fear loss we are capable of quite extraordinary things.

  Paul Gilding

  Inspiration, Loss, Crisis

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• It’s time for architecture to do things again, not just represent things.

  Joshua Prince-Ramus

  Inspiration, Architecture

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• We don’t choose between experiences, we choose between memories of experiences. Even when we think about the future, we don’t think of our future normally as experiences. We think of our future as anticipated memories.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Memories, Inspiration, Thinking

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• The routines of almost all famous writers, from Charles Darwin to John Grisham, similarly emphasise specific starting times, or number of hours worked, or words written. Such rituals provide a structure to work in, whether or not the feeling of motivation or inspiration happens to be present. They let people work alongside negative or positive emotions, instead of getting distracted by the effort of cultivating only positive ones. ‘Inspiration is for amateurs,’ the artist Chuck Close once memorably observed. ‘The rest of us just show up and get to work.

  Oliver Burkeman

  Inspiration, Artist, Numbers

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• It is extremely dangerous to encourage people to see themselves as exceptional, whatever the motivation.

  Vladimir Putin

  Inspirational, People, Dangerous

  "Putin jabs U.S., Obama in op-ed, says Syria strike would be 'act of aggression'" By Jamie Crawford, www.cnn.com. September 12, 2013.

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• Find out what the next thing is that you can push, that you can invent, that you can be ignorant about, that you can be arrogant about, that you can fail with, and that you can be a fool with. Because in the end, that's how you grow.

  Paula Scher

  Inspiration, Ignorant, Next

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• Imagine a giant asteroid on a direct collision course with Earth. That is the equivalent of what we face now with climate change, yet we dither.

  James Hansen

  Inspiration, Earth, Asteroids

  "James Hansen: What Makes A Scientist Take A Stand?". Interview with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. April 7, 2017.

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• The best motivation is self-motivation.

  Jim Rohn

  Self, Self Motivation

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• I daydreamed for motivation. I didn't lie to myself and talk about my passions and how if I was passionate enough about something I could be successful at it.

  Mark Cuban

  Lying, Passion, Successful

  "MARK CUBAN: Here's What You Need To Know Before Starting A Business" by Max Nisen, www.businessinsider.com. December 24, 2012.

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• You can't avoid fear. No magic potion will take it away. And you can't wait for motivation to get you going. To conquer fear, you have to feel the fear and take action anyway.

  John C. Maxwell

  Waiting, Magic, Action

  John C. Maxwell (2007). “Failing Forward”, p.42, Harper Collins

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• Don't fake it till you make it. Fake it till you become it.

  Amy Cuddy

  Inspiration, Fake, Psychology

  Amy Cuddy (2015). “Presence: Bringing Your Boldest Self to Your Biggest Challenges”, Hachette UK

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• The kindness of strangers and the support of the international community are truly the rays of hope we North Korean people need.

  Lee Hyeon-seo

  Kindness, Inspiration, People

  "Why I fled North Korea" By Hyeonseo Lee, www.cnn.com. April 14, 2013.

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• Your child will live a life ten years younger than you because of the landscape of food that we've built around them.

  Jamie Oliver

  Children, Inspiration, Years

  "Teach every child about food". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February 2010.

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• Very many people go through their whole lives having no real sense of what their talents may be, or if they have any to speak of.

  Ken Robinson

  Real, Inspiration, People

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• The next time you're looking at a charity, don't ask about the rate of their overhead. Ask about the scale of their dreams.

  Dan Pallotta

  Dream, Inspiration, Charity

  "The way we think about charity is dead wrong". TED Talk, www.ted.com. March 2013.

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