Motivation Quotes - Page 25

• One thing that has made a big comeback just recently is this business of speaking with the dead. To my innocent mind, 'dead' implies incapable of communicating.

  James Randi

  Inspiration, Mind, Comeback

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• [For constructive conflict,] we have to resist the neurobiological drive which means that we really prefer people mostly like ourselves.

  Margaret Heffernan

  Inspiration, Mean, People

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• I could speak to you and say, 'Laytay-chai, paisey, paisey.' ... Why aren't you responding? Oh, you don't speak Swahili. Well, I've got news for you. The dog doesn't speak English, or American, or Spanish, or French.

  Ian Dunbar

  Dog, Inspiration, Speak English

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• Let's pretend there's a pandemic. Let's everybody run around and play your role. Main result is that there is tremendous confusion. ... Nobody knows who's in charge. Nobody knows the chain of command.

  Laurie Garrett

  Running, Inspiration, Play

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• [Photography] puts a human face on issues which, from afar, can appear abstract or ideological or monumental in their global impact.

  James Nachtwey

  Photography, Inspiration, Impact

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• Let's say you went to Harvard or Oxford or Cambridge, and you said, 'I've come here because I'm in search of morality, guidance and consolation; I want to know how to live,' - they would show you the way to the insane asylum.

  Alain de Botton

  Inspiration, Oxford, Insane

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• Years of concentration solely on work and individual success meant that in his retirement [Lyndon Johnson] could find no solace in family, in recreation, in sports or in hobbies. It was almost as if the hole in his heart was so large that even the love of a family, without work, could not fill it.

  Doris Kearns Goodwin

  Sports, Retirement, Inspiration

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• Music really is our daily medicine.

  Evelyn Glennie

  Inspiration, Medicine, Healthcare

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• Since the 1940s, we've been saying there are no differences, we [humans] are all identical. We're going to know at year end if that is true.

  Juan Enriquez

  Inspiration, Years, Year End

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• Here we are, arguably the most intelligent being that's ever walked planet Earth, with this extraordinary brain ... and yet we're destroying the only home we have.

  Jane Goodall

  Inspiration, Home, Intelligent

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• Anything that makes it easier to imagine trading places with someone else increases your moral consideration for that other person.

  Steven Pinker

  Inspiration, Moral, Imagine

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• Humor relies on the traditions of a society. It takes what we know and it twists it. ... Because women are on the ground floor, and we know the traditions so well, we can bring a different voice to the table.

  Liza Donnelly

  Inspiration, Voice, Twists

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• Everything I did, I did for mankind.

  Marco Tempest

  Inspiration, Mankind

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• [Richard Feynman] truly believed that if you couldn't explain something simply, you didn't understand it.

  Leonard Susskind

  Inspiration, Simply You, Richard Feynman

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• If we had no bias, if we had no preconceptions, what kind of forms could we design?

  Michael Hansmeyer

  Motivational, Inspiration, Design

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• Chinese workers are not forced into factories because of our insatiable desire for iPods. They choose to leave their homes in order to earn money, to learn new skills, and to see the world.

  Leslie T. Chang

  Inspiration, Home, Order

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

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• Questions [about our healthcare system] are not hard because the answers are complicated, they are hard because they require that we be honest with ourselves.

  Rebecca Onie

  Inspiration, Answers, Healthcare

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• Our family was too strange and weird for even Santa Claus to come visit ... Santa, who was jolly - but, let's face it, he was also very judgmental.

  Julia Sweeney

  Inspiration, Santa, Faces

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• While the political right may moralize sex, the political left is doing it with food. Food is becoming extremely moralized nowadays, and a lot of it is ideas about purity, about what you're willing to touch, or put into your body.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Sex, Inspiration, Ideas

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• In the world of the Middle East at the moment, the debates are shrill. But ... the wisest voice of all of them may well be the voice of this mute thing, the Cyrus cylinder.

  Neil MacGregor

  Inspiration, Voice, Middle East

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• More people die on a per mile basis from drunk walking than from drunk driving.

  A. J. Jacobs

  Inspiration, People, Drunk

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• I no longer try to be right; I choose to be happy.

  Ric Elias

  Inspiration, Trying, Choose To Be Happy

  "3 things I learned while my plane crashed". TED conference, www.ted.com. March 2011.

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• Each of us has about 100,000 [kinesins] running around, right now, inside each one of your 100 trillion cells. So no matter how lazy you feel, you're not really intrinsically doing nothing.

  David Bolinsky

  Running, Inspiration, Cells

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• If your friends are obese, your risk of obesity is 45 percent higher. ... If your friend's friends are obese, your risk of obesity is 25 percent higher. ... If your friend's friend's friend, someone you probably don't even know, is obese, your risk of obesity is 10 percent higher. It's only when you get to your friend's friend's friend's friends that there's no longer a relationship between that person's body size and your own body size.

  Nicholas A. Christakis

  Inspiration, Risk, Body

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• Are we at some kind of evolutionary equipoise as a species? Or, are we destined to become something different - something, perhaps, even better adapted to the environment?

  Harvey V. Fineberg

  Inspiration, Different, Kind

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