Motivation Quotes - Page 26

• Both my nine- and seven-year-olds have a stockbroker already.

  Cameron Herold

  Inspiration, Years, Nine

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• These disorders - schizophrenia, Alzheimer's, depression, addiction - they not only steal our time to live, they change who we are.

  Edward Boyden

  Inspiration, Alzheimer's, Addiction

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• You take [mammary] cells, you put them in a dish, and within three days ... they don't make milk. They completely forget.

  Mina Bissell

  Inspiration, Cells, Three

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• I like to call it 'the national automobile slum.' You can call it suburban sprawl. I think it's appropriate to call it the greatest misallocation of resources in the history of the world.

  James Howard Kunstler

  Inspiration, Thinking, World

  "The Greatest Misallocation of Resources in the History of the World". "Placemakers" with Rebecca Sheir, www.slate.com. November 7, 2016.

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• Economics taught in most of the elite universities are practically useless in my context. My country [Afghanistan] is dominated by drug economy and a mafia; textbook economics does not work in my context.

  Ashraf Ghani

  Country, Inspiration, Drug

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• Even in my own life, there are memories I have that are difficult to explain - happenings that are so odd and unaccountably weird, that it is difficult to imagine they were not the result of prolonged and frequent contact with aliens throughout my life.

  John Hodgman

  Memories, Inspiration, Aliens

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• As architects we're trained to solve problems, but I don't really believe in architectural problems. I only believe in opportunities.

  Magnus Larsson

  Believe, Inspiration, Opportunity

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• [Wind energy] takes a very large footprint on the land, five to 10 times what you'd use for nuclear, and typically to get one gigawatt of electricity is on the order of 250 square miles of wind farm.

  Stewart Brand

  Inspiration, Squares, Wind Farms

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• It might be inevitable that we have to confront the idea that our destiny is to be one world with one language.

  Mark Pagel

  Inspiration, Destiny, Ideas

  "How language transformed humanity". TED conference, www.ted.com. July 2011.

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• Death is a part of life ... and that part of life needs everything that the rest of life does.

  Jok Church

  Inspiration, Rest Of Life, Doe

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• Why, in our age of science, [do] we still have laws and policies which come from an age of superstition?

  Shereen El Feki

  Inspiration, Law, Age

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• Our world leaders ... need our help. They need the cavalry, and the cavalry's not going to come from Mars; it's got to come from us.

  Jamie Drummond

  Inspiration, Our World, Leader

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• In many of our [online] courses, the median response time for a question on the question and answer forum was 22 minutes - which is not a level of service I have ever offered to my Stanford students.

  Daphne Koller

  Inspiration, Questions And Answers, Levels

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• The truth won't set us free until we develop the skills and the habit and the talent and the moral courage to use it.

  Margaret Heffernan

  Inspiration, Skills, Use

  "Dare to disagree". TED conference, www.ted.com. June 2012.

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• When you prohibit failure, you kill innovation. If you kill innovation in fundraising, you can't raise more revenue. If you can't raise more revenue, you can't grow. And if you can't grow, you can't possibly solve large social problems.

  Dan Pallotta

  Inspiration, Fundraising, Innovation

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• One cup of food a day changes Fabian's life completely. But this morning, about a billion people on Earth - or one out of every seven - woke up and didn't even know how to fill this cup. One out of every seven people.

  Josette Sheeran

  Morning, Inspiration, People

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• Why do economists fall in love with authoritarian governments?

  Yasheng Huang

  Falling In Love, Inspiration, Government

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• Compassion has enemies, and those enemies are things like pity, moral outrage, fear.

  Joan Halifax

  Inspiration, Compassion, Enemy

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• It's tens of millions of calculations just to design one connection between a piece of structural steel and another piece of structural steel.

  Greg Lynn

  Inspiration, Design, Connections

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• The point about democracy is not that it delivers legitimate, effective, prosperous rule of law. It's not that it guarantees peace with itself or with its neighbors. ... Democracy matters because it reflects an idea of equality.

  Rory Stewart

  Inspiration, Law, Ideas

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• [Americans] think that choice, as seen through the American lens, best fulfills an innate and universal desire for choice in all humans. Unfortunately, these beliefs are based on assumptions that don't always hold true in many countries, in many cultures.

  Sheena Iyengar

  Country, Inspiration, Thinking

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

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• Farmers in America ... are pretty large in general. Their farms are also large. But farmers in the rest of the world are quite skinny, and that's because they're starving.

  Ellen Gustafson

  Inspiration, America, World

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• From a genomic perspective, we are all Africans.

  Svante Paabo

  Inspiration, Perspective, Genomics

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• I said, 'Don, what's sustainable about feeding chicken to fish?'

  Dan Barber

  Inspiration, Feeding, Chickens

  "How I fell in love with a fish". TED conference, www.ted.com. February 2010.

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• Maybe we all need to leave our children with a value legacy, and not a financial one. A value for things with a personal touch - an autographed book, a soul-searching letter.

  Lakshmi Pratury

  Children, Book, Inspiration

  "What Can We Gain By Writing A Letter By Hand?". Interview with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. August 26, 2016.

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