Motivation Quotes - Page 20

• [Psychics] use exactly the same gimmicks that we magicians do - the same physical methods, the same psychological methods - and they effectively and profoundly deceive millions of people around the earth, to their detriment.

  James Randi

  Inspiration, Psychics, People

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• If we ... capitalize on the very real strengths of older people, then added years of life can dramatically improve quality of life at all ages.

  Laura L. Carstensen

  Real, Inspiration, Years

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• Beyond the profound federal perks, married people make more money; we're healthier, physically and emotionally; we produce happier, more stable and more successful kids; we have more sex than our supposedly swinging single friends; we even live longer.

  Jenna McCarthy

  Sex, Inspiration, Kids

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• I'm not saying we don't have our set of problems - climate crisis, species extinction, water and energy shortage - we surely do. But ultimately we knock them down.

  Peter Diamandis

  Inspiration, Water, Energy

  "Abundance is our future". TED2012, www.ted.com. February 2012.

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• Don't persuade, defend or interrupt. Be curious, be conversational, be real. And listen.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Real, Inspiration, Curious

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• [Introverts,] the world needs you and it needs the things you carry. So I wish you the best of all possible journeys and the courage to speak softly.

  Susan Cain

  Inspiration, Journey, Wish

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• In the 21st century, somebody or something has changed the rules about how our world works.

  Eddie Obeng

  Inspiration, Our World, Century

  "Smart failure for a fast-changing world". TED Talks, www.ted.com. June 2012.

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• By slowing down at the right moments, people find that they do everything better: They eat better; they make love better; they exercise better; they work better; they live better.

  Carl Honore

  Inspiration, Exercise, Love Is

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• Our biggest threat is not an asteroid about to crash into us, something we can do nothing about. Instead, all the major threats facing us today are problems entirely of our own making. And since we made the problems, we can also solve the problems.

  Jared Diamond

  Inspiration, Today, Asteroids

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• The most important innovation in medicine to come in the next 10 years: the power of the human hand.

  Abraham Verghese

  Inspiration, Hands, Years

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• Students need to decide, 'All right, well, does the height matter? Does the side of it matter? Does the color of the valve matter? What matters here?' - such an underrepresented question in math curriculum.

  Dan Meyer

  Inspiration, Math, What Matters

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• I see the God complex around me all the time in my fellow economists. I see it in our business leaders. I see it in the politicians we vote for - people who, in the face of an incredibly complicated world, are nevertheless absolutely convinced that they understand the way that the world works.

  Tim Harford

  Inspiration, Complicated World, People

  "Trial, error and the God complex". TED conference, www.ted.com. July 2011.

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• I was holding [my four-year-old daughter] and I said, 'Sophia, I love you more than anything in the universe.' And she turned to me and said, 'Daddy, universe or multiverse?'

  Brian Greene

  Daughter, I Love You More, Inspiration

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• Urban retrofitting: creating different sorts of spaces and uses out of places that are already there.

  Alex Steffen

  Inspiration, Creating, Space

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• The average well-being of our societies is not dependent any longer on national income and economic growth. ... But the differences between us and where we are in relation to each other now matter very much.

  Richard G. Wilkinson

  Inspiration, Average, Differences

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• It's hard to reach [the age of] 100. We're not programmed for longevity. We are programmed for something called procreative success.

  Dan Buettner

  Inspiration, Age, Longevity

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• The central position of finance capital is going to come to an end, and it's going to steadily move to the sides, the margins of our society, transformed from being a master into a servant, a servant to the productive economy and of human needs.

  Geoff Mulgan

  Moving, Inspiration, Needs

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• I became Vulnerability TED, like an action figure - like Ninja Barbie, but I'm Vulnerability TED.

  Brené Brown

  Inspiration, Barbie, Ninja

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• What I'm really worried about is war. Will the former rich countries really accept a completely changed world economy, and a shift of power away from where it has been the last 50 to 100 to 150 years, back to Asia?

  Hans Rosling

  Country, War, Inspiration

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• African agriculture today is among, or is, the most under-capitalized in the world. Only seven percent of arable land in Africa is irrigated, compared to 40 percent in Asia.

  Eleni Zaude Gabre-Madhin

  Inspiration, Land, Agriculture

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• What the economy requires now is a whole different set of skills: You need intelligence, you need an ability to sit still and focus, to communicate openly to be able to listen to people and to operate in a workplace that is much more fluid than it used to be. Those are things that women do extremely well.

  Hanna Rosin

  Inspiration, Skills, People

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• That's universal - we all want to bring every good thing to our children. But what's not universal is our ability to provide every good thing.

  Melinda Gates

  Children, Inspiration, Want

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• Einstein comes along and says, space and time can warp and curve, that's what gravity is. Now string theory comes along and says, yes, gravity, quantum mechanics, electromagnetism - all together in one package, but only if the universe has more dimensions than the ones that we see.

  Brian Greene

  Inspiration, Curves, Space

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• The last chapter in any successful genocide is the one in which the oppressor can remove their hands and say, 'My God, what are these people doing to themselves? They're killing each other. They're killing themselves while we watch them die.' This is how we came to own these United States. This is the legacy of manifest destiny.

  Aaron Huey

  Inspiration, Successful, Destiny

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• People with dirty jobs are happier than you think. As a group, they're the happiest people I know.

  Mike Rowe

  Jobs, Dirty, Inspiration

  "Are People With 'Dirty Jobs' The Most Successful?". Interview with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. November 1, 2013.

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