Motivation Quotes - Page 18

• I started out with a dream to make a star in a jar, and I ended up ... making things that I think can change the world.

  Taylor Wilson

  Dream, Stars, Inspiration

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• It is okay to be an outsider, a recent arrival, new on the scene - and not just okay, but something to be thankful for. ... Because being an insider can so easily mean collapsing the horizons, can so easily mean accepting the presumptions of your province.

  Tan Le

  Inspiration, Mean, Being Thankful

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• You cannot talk about race without talking about privilege. And when people start talking about privilege, they get paralyzed by shame.

  Brené Brown

  Inspiration, Race, Talking

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• Ten years ago, when I was on an airplane and I introduced myself to my seatmate, and told them [I was a psychologist], they'd move away from me. ... And now when I tell people what I do, they move toward me.

  Martin Seligman

  Moving, Inspiration, Airplane

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• The two most powerful words when we're in struggle: me too.

  Brené Brown

  Powerful, Struggle, Inspiration

  "Listening to shame". TED Talk, www.ted.com. March 2012.

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• I regretted the time I wasted on things that did not matter with people that [do] matter.

  Ric Elias

  Inspiration, People, Matter

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• When you smile you don't only appear to be more likable and courteous, you appear to be more competent.

  Ron Gutman

  Inspiration, Competent, Courteous

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• It is a dream of mankind to fly like a bird.

  Marcus Fischer

  Dream, Inspiration, Bird

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• Could I do with a little life editing? Would that give me a little more freedom? Maybe a little more time?

  Graham Hill

  Inspiration, Editing, Giving

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• That's what life is about: about daring greatly, about being in the arena.

  Brené Brown

  Inspiration, Arena, Life Is

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• [The Barefoot College is] the only college where the teacher is the learner and the learner is the teacher.

  Bunker Roy

  Teacher, Inspiration, College

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• If it would destroy [a 12-year-old boy] to be called a girl, what are we then teaching him about girls?

  Tony Porter

  Girl, Teaching, Inspiration

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• It stands to reason that we love chocolate cake because it is sweet. Guys go for girls like this because they are sexy. We adore babies because they're so cute. And, of course, we are amused by jokes because they are funny. This is all backwards. It is. And Darwin shows us why.

  Daniel Dennett

  Cute, Girl, Sexy

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• If we see someone in a wheelchair, we assume they cannot walk. It may be that they can walk three, four, five steps. That, to them, means they can walk.

  Evelyn Glennie

  Inspiration, Mean, Three

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• If you're bringing up kids, you just want to smother them with love and praise and enthusiasm. So I don't think you can mollycoddle your kids too much really.

  Richard Branson

  Inspiration, Kids, Thinking

  "Life at 30,000 feet". Interview with Chris Anderson, www.ted.com. March, 2007.

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• We are the most in-debt, obese, addicted and medicated adult cohort in U.S. history.

  Brené Brown

  Inspiration, Adults, Debt

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

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• Most of us will get turned on at night by the very same things that we will demonstrate against during the day - the erotic mind is not very politically correct.

  Esther Perel

  Inspiration, Night, Erotic

  "The secret to desire in a long-term relationship". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February 2013.

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• For the past 50 years, we've been fishing the seas like we clear-cut forests. It's hard to overstate the destruction. Ninety percent of large fish, the ones we love - the tunas, the halibuts, the salmons, swordfish - they've collapsed.

  Dan Barber

  Inspiration, Cutting, Past

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• Peers can be the best teachers, because they're the ones that remember what it's like to not understand.

  Peter Norvig

  Teacher, Inspiration, Peers

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• The fact that 98 percent of women in [the U.S.] who are sexually experienced say they use birth control doesn't make sex any less sacred. It just means that they're getting to make choices about their lives.

  Melinda Gates

  Sex, Inspiration, Mean

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• Not one country in all the world has eliminated its economic participation [gender] gap - not one.

  Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

  Country, Inspiration, Gender Gap

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• That is why I took up the gun - not to shoot, not to kill, not to destroy, but to stop those who would do evil, to protect the vulnerable, to defend democratic values, to stand up for the freedom we have to talk ... about how we can make the world a better place.

  Peter van Uhm

  Inspiration, Gun, Evil

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• People who say ... they're perfectly fine [are] more insane than the rest of us.

  Ruby Wax

  Inspiration, People, Insane

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• We spend our time responding rationally to a world which we understand and recognize, but which no longer exists.

  Eddie Obeng

  Inspiration, World, Responding

  "Why the best thing you can do is fail" By Eddie Obeng, www.cnn.com. December 30, 2012.

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• Secrets can remind us of the countless human dramas, of frailty and heroism playing out silently in the lives of people all around us.

  Frank Warren

  Drama, Inspiration, People

  "Half a million secrets". TED conference, www.ted.com. February 2012.

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