Motivation Quotes - Page 21

• Issuing an insurance policy against abduction by aliens seems a pretty safe bet.

  Stephen Hawking

  Inspiration, Safe, Abduction

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• Race and class are extremely reliable indicators as to where one might find the good stuff, like parks and trees, and where one might find the bad stuff, like power plants and waste facilities.

  Majora Carter

  Inspiration, Race, Class

  "Greening the ghetto". TED conference, www.ted.com. February 2006.

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• A brand is a voice and a product is a souvenir.

  Lisa Gansky

  Inspiration, Voice, Souvenirs

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• An innovator is one who does not know it cannot be done.

  Raghunath Anant Mashelkar

  Motivational, Inspiration, Innovation

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• Ten percent of American businesses disappear every year. ... It's far higher than the failure rate of, say, Americans. Ten percent of Americans don't disappear every year. Which leads us to conclude American businesses fail faster than Americans, and therefore American businesses are evolving faster than Americans.

  Tim Harford

  Inspiration, Years, Failing

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• Aesthetic judgments, rather than abstract reasoning, guide and shape the process by which we all come to know what we know.

  Daniel Tammet

  Inspiration, Shapes, Judgment

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• As a black person in America, I am twice as likely as a white person to live in an area where air pollution poses the greatest risk to my health. I am five times more likely to live within walking distance of a power plant or chemical facility, which I do.

  Majora Carter

  Distance, Inspiration, Air

  "Greening the ghetto". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February 2006.

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• You think of yourselves as human beings, but I think of you as 99 percent bacterial.

  Bonnie Bassler

  Inspiration, Thinking, Think Of You

  "How bacteria 'talk'". TED conference, www.ted.com. February 2009.

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• We all hate moral ambiguity in some sense, and yet it is also absolutely necessary. In writing a story, it is the place where I begin.

  Amy Tan

  Hate, Inspiration, Writing

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• In perhaps 50 years, 60 years, we can finish completely this civilization, and offer to our children the possibility to invent a new story, a new poetry, a new romanticism.

  Philippe Starck

  Children, Inspiration, Years

  "Design and Destiny". TED Talk, March 2007.

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• 'I wish for a better life. I wish for food for my children. I wish that sexual abuse and exploitation in schools would stop.' This is the dream of the African girl.

  Leymah Gbowee

  Girl, Dream, Children

  "Unlock the Intelligence, Passion, Greatness of Girls". TED Talk, www.ted.com. March 2012.

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• Racism is predictable. It's predicted by interaction or lack thereof with people unlike you, people of other races.

  Nate Silver

  Inspiration, Race, Racism

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• [A community chalkboard is] about knowing you're not alone. It's about understanding our neighbors in new and enlightening ways.

  Candy Chang

  Inspiration, Knowing, Community

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• Real science is all about critically appraising the evidence for somebody else's position.

  Ben Goldacre

  Real, Inspiration, Evidence

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• If we are to move towards our collective bliss, it's time we shed our focus on the physical.

  Janine Shepherd

  Moving, Inspiration, Focus

  Janine Shepherd (2016). “Defiant: A Broken Body Is Not a Broken Person”, p.121, Sounds True

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• What if we could make energy do our work without working our undoing?

  Amory Lovins

  Inspiration, What If, Energy

  "Climate Change: No Breakthroughs Needed". sustainability.asu.edu. June 27, 2016.

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• I can't promise my child a life without bias - we're all biased - but I promise to bias my child with multiple perspectives.

  K.K. Raghava

  Children, Inspiration, Perspective

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• My role [as a war correspondent] is to bring a voice to people who are voiceless [and] to shine a light in the darkest corners of the world.

  Janine di Giovanni

  War, Inspiration, Light

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• The test of truth in life is not whether we can remember what we learned in school, but whether we are prepared for change.

  Andreas Schleicher

  Inspiration, School, Tests

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• The formula for a happy marriage is five positive remarks, or interactions, for every one negative.

  Nancy Etcoff

  Inspiration, Negative, Happy Marriage

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• It's not an 'either/or,' it's an 'and.' You can be serious and play.

  Tim Brown

  Inspiration, Play, Serious

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• [Language is] really a pretty amazing invention if you think about it. Here I have a very complicated, messy, confused idea in my head. I'm sitting here making grunting sounds and hopefully constructing a similar messy, confused idea in your head that bears some analogy to it.

  Danny Hillis

  Confused, Inspiration, Thinking

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• When they teach [doctors] how to suture, they also teach them how to stitch their self-worth to being all-powerful.

  Brené Brown

  Powerful, Inspiration, Self Worth

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• We, the people, do have the power to stop the tragic waste of resources if we regard it as socially unacceptable to waste food.

  Tristram Stuart

  Inspiration, People, Waste

  "Food waste solutions: cuttlefish testicles and pigs' heads" by Alex Renton, www.theguardian.com. February 6, 2014.

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• As a chemist, I wanted to ask myself the question frustrated by biology: What is the minimal unit of matter that can undergo Darwinian evolution?

  Leroy Cronin

  Inspiration, Frustrated, Matter

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