Motivation Quotes - Page 22

• The redefined physician is human, knows she's human, accepts it ... and she works in a culture of medicine that acknowledges that human beings run the system.

  Dr. Brian Goldman

  Running, Inspiration, Medicine

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• Trade is 10 times as old as farming.

  Matt Ridley

  Inspiration, Farming, Trade

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• A country like America has twice as much food on its shop shelves and in its restaurants than is actually required to feed the American people.

  Tristram Stuart

  Country, Inspiration, America

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• I think for most Americans, knowledge of the Islamic world was pretty slight before 9/11, and then it was thrust upon us in one of America's darkest hours.

  Thomas P. Campbell

  Inspiration, Islamic, Thinking

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• As leaders, we understand that intangibles are important, but we don't have a clue how to measure them.

  Chip Conley

  Inspiration, Leader, Important

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• We, all of us, are what happens when a primordial mixture of hydrogen and helium evolves for so long that it begins to ask where it came from.

  Jill Tarter

  Inspiration, Long, Mixtures

  "Join the SETI search". TED conference, www.ted.com. February 2009.

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• [It's] useful to ask ourselves, 'Just how global are we?' before we think about where we go from here.

  Pankaj Ghemawat

  Inspiration, Thinking, Asks

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• We go into rural communities and all we do, like has been done in this room, is create the space. When these girls sit, you unlock intelligence, you unlock passion, you unlock commitment, you unlock focus, you unlock great leaders.

  Leymah Gbowee

  Girl, Inspiration, Space

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

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• The British government - any government - is potentially the worst [architectural] client in the world.

  Thomas Heatherwick

  Inspiration, Government, World

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• Is it music? ... This is not the important question. The important question is, is it interesting?

  Mark Applebaum

  Inspiration, Interesting, Important

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• If you want to live a life free of regret, there is an option open to you. It's called a lobotomy.

  Kathryn Schulz

  Regret, Inspiration, Want

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• A better way to mutual respect is to engage directly with the moral convictions citizens bring to public life, rather than to require that people leave their deepest moral convictions outside politics before they enter.

  Michael Sandel

  Inspiration, People, Citizens

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• We are trying to enable anyone in the world to be their own educational DJ, creating educational materials, sharing them with the world, constantly innovating on them.

  Richard Baraniuk

  Educational, Inspiration, Creating

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• The path to truly new, never-been-done-before things always has failure along the way.

  Regina E. Dugan

  Inspiration, Done, Way

  "Regina Dugan" by Heather Kelly, edition.cnn.com. October 2013.

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• Today, the average Korean works a thousand hours more a year than the average German. A thousand. ... That is the end of the Great Divergence.

  Niall Ferguson

  Inspiration, Average, Years

  "The 6 killer apps of prosperity". Ted conference, www.ted.com. 2011.

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• I think we're going to move from a Homo sapiens into a Homo evolutis: ... a hominid that takes direct and deliberate control over the evolution of his species, her species and other species.

  Juan Enriquez

  Moving, Inspiration, Thinking

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• The law can seem remote, arcane, the stuff of specialists. But it isn't, because for those of us who live in democracies, the law begins with us.

  Shereen El Feki

  Inspiration, Law, Democracy

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• Art is not about objects of high monetary exchange. It's about reasserting our firsthand experience in present time.

  Antony Gormley

  Art, Inspiration, Present Time

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• I have had work or ideas come through me from a source that I honestly cannot identify. And what is that thing? And how are we to relate to it in a way that will not make us lose our minds, but, in fact, might actually keep us sane?

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Inspiration, Ideas, Mind

  "Your elusive creative genius". Ted Talks, www.ted.com. February, 2009.

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• Children ... smile as many as 400 times per day.

  Ron Gutman

  Children, Inspiration

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• Thirty days is just about the right amount of time to add a new habit or subtract a habit - like watching the news - from your life.

  Matt Cutts

  Inspiration, Add, News

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• [I've] learned how to pull the mic away and attack the poetry with my body.

  Lemon Andersen

  Inspiration, Body, I've Learned

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• It's incredibly dangerous to leave an abuser, because the final step in the domestic violence pattern is: kill her.

  Leslie Morgan Steiner

  Inspiration, Domestic Violence, Finals

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• As a magician, I think everything is possible. And I think if something is done by one person it can be done by others.

  David Blaine

  Inspiration, Thinking, Done

  "Is It Possible To Be Fearless?". Interview with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. May 23, 2014.

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• The magic of the mechanisms inside each genetic structure saying exactly where that nerve cell should go - the complexity of these mathematical models is beyond human comprehension.

  Alexander Tsiaras

  Inspiration, Cells, Magic

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