Motivation Quotes - Page 19

• When we're infused with either enthusiasm or awe or fondness ... it changes what we see. It changes what we remember.

  Robert Legato

  Inspiration, Enthusiasm, Remember

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• Even though I am a mathematician, I look at [fetal development] with marvel: How do these instruction sets not make mistakes as they build what is us?

  Alexander Tsiaras

  Mistake, Inspiration, Looks

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• When we recognize that we don't have all the time in the world, we see our priorities most clearly.

  Laura L. Carstensen

  Inspiration, Priorities, World

  "Older people are happier". TED Talk, www.ted.com. December 2011.

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• I have a neighbor who knows 200 types of wine. ... I only know two types of wine - red and white. But my neighbor only knows two types of countries - industrialized and developing. And I know 200.

  Hans Rosling

  Country, Travel, Inspiration

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• Humans in the developed world spend more than 90 percent of their lives indoors, where they breathe in and come into contact with trillions of life forms invisible to the naked eye: microorganisms.

  Jessica Green

  Inspiration, Eye, Naked

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• Positive findings are around twice as likely to be published as negative findings. This is a cancer at the core of evidence-based medicine.

  Ben Goldacre

  Cancer, Inspiration, Medicine

  A Rhetoric of Public Bias: How Doctors Are Mislead About the Drugs They Prescribe, delivered September 2012

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• We're no longer intimidated by math, because we're slowly redefining what math is.

  Dan Meyer

  Inspiration, Math, Redefining

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• When you train your employees to be risk averse, then you're preparing your whole company to be reward challenged.

  Morgan Spurlock

  Inspiration, Risk, Rewards

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• There is no neediness in desire ... there is no caretaking in desire. Caretaking is mightily loving, [but] it's a powerful anti-aphrodisiac.

  Esther Perel

  Powerful, Inspiration, Desire

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• It's perhaps easier now than ever before to make a good living; it's perhaps harder than ever before to stay calm, to be free of career anxiety.

  Alain de Botton

  Inspiration, Careers, Anxiety

  "A kinder, gentler philosophy of success". TED Talk, www.ted.com. July, 2009.

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• Security is elusive. It's impossible. We all die. We all get old. We all get sick. People leave us. People change us. Nothing is secure.

  Eve Ensler

  Inspiration, People, Sick

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• Making systems work is the great task of my generation of physicians and scientists. But I would go further and say that making systems work - whether in healthcare, education, climate change, making a pathway out of poverty - is the great task of our generation as a whole.

  Atul Gawande

  Inspiration, Our Generation, Climate

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• I'm going to show you all how easy it is to manipulate the human mind once you know how.

  Keith Barry

  Inspiration, Mind, Easy

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• It's not about the fish; it's not about the pollution; it's not about the climate change. It's about us and our greed and our need for growth and our inability to imagine a world that is different from the selfish world we live in today.

  Jeremy Jackson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Selfish

  "How we wrecked the ocean". TED conference, www.ted.com. April 2010.

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• We no longer live in a world that is neatly divided between rich and well-educated countries, and poor and badly-educated ones.

  Andreas Schleicher

  Country, Inspiration, World

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• Information, if viewed from the point of view of food, is never a production issue. ... It's a consumption issue, and we have to start thinking about how we create diets [and] exercise.

  J.P. Rangaswami

  Inspiration, Exercise, Thinking

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• The number of children is not growing any longer in the world. We are still debating peak oil, but we have definitely reached peak child.

  Hans Rosling

  Children, Inspiration, Oil

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• Health cannot be bought at the supermarket. You have to invest in health. You have to get kids into schooling. You have to train health staff. You have to educate the population.

  Hans Rosling

  Inspiration, Kids, Population

  "The best stats you've ever seen". TED Talks, www.ted.com. February 2006.

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• The placebo effect is one of the most fascinating things in the whole of medicine. It's not just about taking a pill, and your performance and your pain getting better. It's about our beliefs and expectations. It's about the cultural meaning of a treatment.

  Ben Goldacre

  Pain, Inspiration, Placebo Effect

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• I want [my daughter] to look at the world through the underside of a glass-bottom boat, to look through a microscope at the galaxies that exist on the pinpoint of a human mind.

  Sarah Kay

  Daughter, Inspiration, Glasses

  Sarah Kay, “If I should have a daughter”

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• You have to utilize who you are in your work. Nobody else can do that: nobody else can pull from your background, from your parents, your upbringing, your whole life experience.

  David Carson

  Inspiration, Parent, Life Experience

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• [A conductor's] happiness does not come from only his own story and his joy of the music. The joy is about enabling other people's stories to be heard at the same time.

  Itay Talgam

  Inspiration, People, Joy

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• You think that social media is about hooking up online? For these kids [in the Tunisian Revolution], it was a military tool to defend unarmed people from murderers.

  Don Tapscott

  Military, Inspiration, Kids

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• If you ever go bar hopping, who do you want to take with you? You want a slightly uglier version of yourself. Similar ... but slightly uglier.

  Dan Ariely

  Inspiration, Bars, Want

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• While I was at Microsoft, the annual revenues grew larger than the GDP of the Republic of Ghana.

  Patrick Awuah, Jr.

  Inspiration, Ghana, Gdp

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