Motivation Quotes - Page 17

• The next 30 days are going to pass whether you like it or not, so why not think about something you have always wanted to try and give it a shot for the next 30 days?

  Matt Cutts

  Inspiration, Thinking, Giving

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• I've been shot down so many times, I get altitude sickness just from standing up for myself.

  Shane Koyczan

  Inspiration, Sickness, Shots

  "To This Day ... for the bullied and beautiful". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February 2013.

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• Preparing for death is one of the most empowering things you can do. Thinking about death clarifies your life.

  Candy Chang

  Inspiration, Thinking, Empowering

  "Before I die I want to". TED Talk, www.ted.com. July 2012.

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• Vulnerability pushed, I pushed back. I lost the fight, but probably won my life back.

  Brené Brown

  Inspiration, Fighting, Lost

  "The power of vulnerability". TED Talk, www.ted.com. June 2010.

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• Burning one hectare of grassland gives off more, and more damaging, pollutants than 6,000 cars. And we are burning in Africa, every single year, more than one billion hectares.

  Allan Savory

  Inspirational, Motivational, Years

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• If Americans want to live the American dream, they should go to Denmark.

  Richard G. Wilkinson

  Dream, Inspiration, Want

  "TED Global 2011: Forget Glastonbury, this is Nerdstock" by Carole Cadwalladr, www.theguardian.com. July 13, 2011.

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• What's it like to be a baby? It's like being in love in Paris for the first time after you've had three double espressos.

  Alison Gopnik

  Baby, Inspiration, Being In Love

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• If you want to destroy something in this life, be it an acne, a blemish or the human soul, all you need to do is to surround it with thick walls. It will dry up inside.

  Elif Safak

  Wall, Inspiration, Dry Up

  "The politics of fiction". TED conference, www.ted.com. July 2010.

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• So you're six years old, you're reading 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarves,' and it becomes rapidly obvious that there are only two kinds of men in the world: dwarves and Prince Charmings. And the odds are seven to one against your finding the prince.

  Emily Levine

  Inspiration, Reading, Men

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• The very ingredients that nurture love - mutuality, reciprocity, protection, worry, responsibility for the other - are sometimes the very ingredients that stifle desire.

  Esther Perel

  Inspiration, Responsibility, Worry

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• There are more than 27 million people enslaved in the world today - that's double the amount of people taken from Africa during the entire trans-Atlantic slave trade.

  Lisa Kristine

  Taken, Inspiration, People

  FaceBook post by Lisa Kristine from May 28, 2014

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• [Models] have the thinnest thighs, the shiniest hair and the coolest clothes, and they're the most physically insecure women probably on the planet.

  Cameron Russell

  Inspiration, Insecure, Hair

  "Looks aren't everything. Believe me, I'm a model". TED Talk, www.ted.com. October 2012.

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• What is the relationship between love and desire? How do they relate, and how do they conflict? ... Therein lies the mystery of eroticism.

  Esther Perel

  Lying, Inspiration, Desire

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• When babies listen, what they're doing is taking statistics on the language that they hear.

  Patricia K. Kuhl

  Baby, Inspiration, Statistics

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• Americans don't know a lot about the Middle East - [they] don't know we laugh.

  Maz Jobrani

  Inspiration, Laughing, Middle East

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• We are educating people out of their creative capacities.

  Ken Robinson

  Education, Inspiration, People

  "Do schools kill creativity?". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February 2006.

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• Babies all over the world are what I like to describe as 'citizens of the world.' They can discriminate all the sounds of all languages, no matter what country we're testing and what language we're using.

  Patricia K. Kuhl

  Country, Baby, Inspiration

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• Don't be arrogant, because arrogance kills curiosity and passion.

  Mina Bissell

  Inspiration, Passion, Arrogance

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• I have shown that Swedish top students know statistically significantly less about the world than the chimpanzees.

  Hans Rosling

  Inspiration, World, Students

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• Below an income of ... $60,000 a year, people are unhappy, and they get progressively unhappier the poorer they get. Above that, we get an absolutely flat line. ... Money does not buy you experiential happiness, but lack of money certainly buys you misery.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Inspiration, Years, People

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• [Domestic violence is] a carefully laid physical, financial and psychological trap.

  Leslie Morgan Steiner

  Inspiration, Domestic Violence, Financial

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• Women, we care a great deal about being thin and good looking, whereas men mostly care about sex - ideally with women who are thinner and better looking than they are.

  Jenna McCarthy

  Sex, Inspiration, Men

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• When we numb [hard feelings], we numb joy, we numb gratitude, we numb happiness.

  Brené Brown

  Gratitude, Inspiration, Joy

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• We are living on average today 34 years longer than our great-grandparents did.

  Jane Fonda

  Inspiration, Average, Years

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• We've got to cut the extraneous out of our lives, and we've got to learn to stem the inflow. We need to think before we buy. Ask ourselves, 'Is that really going to make me happier? Truly?'

  Graham Hill

  Inspiration, Cutting, Thinking

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