Motivation Quotes - Page 24

• It takes fifteen pounds of wild fish to get you one pound of farm tuna. Not very sustainable. It doesn't taste very good either.

  Dan Barber

  Inspiration, Tuna, Fifteen

  9 Copy quote

• It [doesn't matter] what you look like, where you come from, or what you do for a living. All that matters is that we continue to fan the flame of humanity by living our lives as the ultimate creative expression of who we really are.

  Janine Shepherd

  Inspiration, Expression, Flames

  46 Copy quote

• Although we human adults are really good at understanding other minds, we weren't always that way. It takes children a long time to break into the system.

  Rebecca Saxe

  Children, Inspiration, Long

  "How Do We Know What Other People Are Thinking?". "TED Radio Hour" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. February 20, 2015.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• The main characteristics of romantic love are craving: an intense craving to be with a particular person, not just sexually, but emotionally.

  Helen Fisher

  Inspiration, Romantic Love, Intense

  27 Copy quote

• We have a lot to learn from [bonobos], because they're a very egalitarian society and they're a very empathetic society. Sexual behavior is not confined to one aspect of their life that they set aside. It permeates their entire life.

  Sue Savage-Rumbaugh

  Inspiration, Behavior, Bonobos

  7 Copy quote

• Feminism, unlike almost every other social movement, is not a struggle against a distinct oppressor - it's not the ruling class or the occupiers or the colonizers - it's against a deeply held set of beliefs and assumptions that we women, far too often, hold ourselves.

  Kavita Ramdas

  Struggle, Inspiration, Class

  36 Copy quote

• [Anti-aging therapies will] never be perfect, but we'll be able to fix the things that 200-year-olds die of before we have any 200-year-olds, and the same for 300 and 400 and so on.

  Aubrey de Grey

  Inspiration, Years, Perfect

  23 Copy quote

• There is a tendency to think that if we engage too directly with moral questions in politics, that's a recipe for disagreement, and for that matter, a recipe for intolerance and coercion.

  Michael Sandel

  Inspiration, Thinking, Coercion

  4 Copy quote

• One of the founding moments of public health in the 19th century effectively poisoned the water supply of London much more effectively than any modern day bioterrorist could have ever dreamed of doing.

  Steven Johnson

  Inspiration, Water, London

  9 Copy quote

• Just because a person spends her time making a piece of something does not mean that she becomes that - a piece of something.

  Leslie T. Chang

  Inspiration, Mean, Doe

  "The voices of China's workers". TED conference, www.ted.com. June 2012.

  45 Copy quote

  Show source

• If you want to know about Africa, read our literature - and not just 'Things Fall Apart,' because that would be like saying, 'I've read 'Gone with the Wind' and so I know everything about America.'

  Chris Abani

  Fall, Inspiration, Wind

  "Telling stories from Africa". Talk at TED conference, www.ted.com. June, 2007.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• All other species on this planet are gene machines only. They don't imitate at all well; we alone are gene machines and meme machines as well.

  Susan Blackmore

  Inspiration, Machines, Genes

  14 Copy quote

• Just using a checklist requires [doctors] to embrace different values from ones we've had, like humility, discipline, teamwork.

  Atul Gawande

  Teamwork, Inspiration, Humility

  13 Copy quote

• Improvisation is empowering because it welcomes the unknown. And since what's impossible is always unknown, it allows me to believe I can cheat the impossible.

  Philippe Petit

  Believe, Inspiration, Empowering

  4 Copy quote

• The Centers for Disease Control says that men's violence against women is at epidemic proportions.

  Tony Porter

  Inspiration, Men, Epidemics

  5 Copy quote

• I was raised to believe that soldiers were strong and wise and brave and faithful; they didn't lie, cheat, steal or abandon their comrades.

  Stanley A. McChrystal

  Wise, Strong, Lying

  "Listen, learn ... then lead". TED Talks, www.ted.com. March 2011.

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• I had a very elitist, snobbish, expensive education in India, and that almost destroyed me.

  Bunker Roy

  Inspiration, India, Snobbish

  9 Copy quote

• Chimpanzees, more than any other living creature, have helped us to understand that there is no sharp line between humans and the rest of the animal kingdom. It's a very blurry line, and it's getting more blurry all the time.

  Jane Goodall

  Inspiration, Animal, Lines

  24 Copy quote

• In life we encounter many people who, in some way or another, try to tattoo our faces.

  Dan Ariely

  Tattoo, Inspiration, People

  "Beware conflicts of interest". TED Talks, www.ted.com. March 2011.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• First-generation children were strongly influenced by their immigrant parents' approach to choice. For them, choice was not just a way of defining and asserting their individuality, but a way to create community and harmony by deferring to the choices of people whom they trusted and respected.

  Sheena Iyengar

  Children, Inspiration, People

  "The art of choosing". TED conference, www.ted.com. July, 2010.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Microfinance is an incredibly powerful tool ... but we must move beyond micro-hopes and micro-ambitions for women.

  Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

  Powerful, Moving, Inspiration

  24 Copy quote

• [It's] difficult to engage people in politics when they believe that what really matters is where they personally stand.

  Ivan Krastev

  Believe, Inspiration, People

  4 Copy quote

• If you took every nuclear weapon ever built at the height of the Cold War, lumped them together and blew them up at the same time, that would be one one-millionth of the energy released at that moment.

  Phil Plait

  War, Inspiration, Together

  10 Copy quote

• Belief is the natural state of things. It is the default option. We just believe. We believe all sorts of things. Belief is natural; disbelief, skepticism, science, is not natural.

  Michael Shermer

  Believe, Inspiration, Belief

  14 Copy quote

• If you read folklore and mythology, any kind of myths, any kind of tall tales, running is always associated with freedom and vitality and youthfulness and eternal vigor. It's only in our lifetime that running has become associated with fear and pain.

  Christopher McDougall

  Running, Pain, Inspiration

  11 Copy quote