Motivation Quotes - Page 23

• If your economy grows [by] 4 percent, you ought to reduce child mortality 4 percent.

  Hans Rosling

  Children, Inspiration, Economy

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• If you like somebody, they look better to you. This is why spouses in happy marriages tend to think that their husband or wife looks much better than anyone else thinks that they do.

  Paul Bloom

  Husband, Inspiration, Thinking

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• I'm both challenged and excited. My excitement is: I get a chance to give something back. My challenge is: The shortest seminar I usually do is 50 hours.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspiration, Giving, Challenges

  "Why we do what we do". TED conference, www.ted.com. February 2006.

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• [Bacteria] have an incredibly complicated chemical lexicon that ... allows bacteria to be multicellular. In the spirit of TED they're doing things together because it makes a difference.

  Bonnie Bassler

  Inspiration, Differences, Making A Difference

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• Half of the energy is used by one seventh of the world's population.

  Hans Rosling

  Inspiration, Energy, Population

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• Thirty-three percent of all of our regrets pertain to decisions we made about education.

  Kathryn Schulz

  Regret, Inspiration, Decision

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• We are the biggest sissies in the jungle. Every other animal is stronger than we are - they have fangs, they have claws, they have nimbleness, they have speed. We think Usain Bolt is fast - Usain Bolt can get his ass kicked by a squirrel.

  Christopher McDougall

  Inspiration, Animal, Thinking

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• If you have democracy, people will vote for washing machines. They love them.

  Hans Rosling

  Inspiration, People, Democracy

  "The magic washing machine". TED Talk, www.ted.com. December 2010.

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• Your job as a leader is to try to inspire them to do more work than they've ever done in their life under conditions that they can't imagine.

  Paul Sereno

  Jobs, Inspiration, Leader

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• If I filled the Earth with blueberries, I would have the same number as atoms in a grapefruit.

  Jonathan Bergmann

  Inspiration, Numbers, Atoms

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• Women's worst invention was the plow. With the beginning of plow agriculture, men's roles became extremely powerful. Women lost their ancient jobs as collectors.

  Helen Fisher

  Jobs, Powerful, Inspiration

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• We don't really have a place in the universe, as far as on a timeline. But nothing else does either. Therefore every moment really is the most important moment that's ever happened, including this moment right now.

  Kaki King

  Inspiration, Important, Doe

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• [Newlyweds,] these optimistic young bastards, promise to honor and cherish each other through hot flashes and mid-life crises and a cumulative 50-pound weight gain, until that far-off day when one of them is finally able to rest in peace. You know, because they can't hear the snoring anymore.

  Jenna McCarthy

  Rest In Peace, Inspiration, Optimistic

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• No one person, no one alliance, no one nation, no one of us is as smart as all of us thinking together.

  James G. Stavridis

  Smart, Inspiration, Thinking

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• The question, 'Why does she stay?' is code for some people for, 'It's her fault for staying,' as if [domestic violence] victims intentionally choose to fall in love with men intent upon destroying us.

  Leslie Morgan Steiner

  Falling In Love, Inspiration, Men

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• I believe that women and girls today have to partner in a powerful way with men - with their fathers, with their sons, with their brothers, with the plumbers, the road builders, the caregivers, the doctors, the lawyers, with our president and with all beings.

  Joan Halifax

  Girl, Brother, Powerful

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• In [India] and across the globe, hundreds and thousands of children, as young as three, as young as four, are sold into sexual slavery. But that's not the only purpose that human beings are sold for. They are sold in the name of adoption. They are sold in the name of organ trade. They are sold in the name of forced labor, camel jockeying, anything, everything.

  Sunitha Krishnan

  Children, Inspiration, Names

  "The fight against sex slavery". TED Talk, www.ted.com. November 2009.

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• My experience from 20 years of Africa is that the seemingly impossible is possible.

  Hans Rosling

  Inspiration, Years, Impossible

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• The sign of a masterpiece: A painting when there's a lack of resolution.

  Tracy Chevalier

  Inspiration, Painting, Resolution

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• Our economic competitors ... are eating us for lunch, and we can get in the game or not. We can be at the table, or we can be on the table.

  Jennifer Granholm

  Inspiration, Games, Lunch

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• Forget your environmental footprint. Think about your ethical footprint. What good is it to build a zero-carbon, energy efficient complex, when the labor producing this architectural gem is unethical at best?

  Cameron Sinclair

  Zero, Inspiration, Thinking

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• The Chinese view the state, not just as an intimate member of the family ... but as the head of the family.

  Martin Jacques

  Inspiration, Views, Chinese

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• A great piece of comedy is a verbal magic trick.

  Chris Bliss

  Inspiration, Magic, Pieces

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• [My] hunger and thirst was, and still remains: How do I get people who hate poetry to love me?

  Lemon Andersen

  Hate, Inspiration, People

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• In many ways, the idea of resilience is a more useful concept than the idea of sustainability.

  Rob Hopkins

  Inspiration, Ideas, Resilience

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