Motivation Quotes - Page 27

• You can define how strong a democracy is by how its government treats ... the child of the state.

  Lemn Sissay

  Strong, Children, Inspiration

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• [There are] unseen objects that await us, if we as architects begin to think about designing not the object, but a process to generate objects.

  Michael Hansmeyer

  Inspiration, Thinking, Design

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• You have treated the arts as the cherry on the cake. It needs to be the yeast.

  Mallika Sarabhai

  Art, Inspiration, Cake

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• The mathematics of quantum mechanics very accurately describes how our universe works. And it tells us our reality is continually branching into different possibilities, just like a coral.

  Antony Garrett Lisi

  Inspiration, Reality, Different

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• It's possible, although far-fetched, that in the future we could think of cancer being used as a therapy.

  Eva Vertes

  Cancer, Inspiration, Thinking

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• If we don't manage to implement the Golden Rule globally, so that we treat all peoples, wherever and whoever they may be, as though they were as important as ourselves, I doubt that we'll have a viable world to hand on to the next generation.

  Karen Armstrong

  Inspiration, Hands, Doubt

  "Karen Armstrong Builds A 'Case For God'". Interview with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 21, 2009.

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• [As a conductor] there has to be, between me and the orchestra, an unshakable bond of trust, born out of mutual respect, through which we can spin a musical narrative that we all believe in.

  Charles Hazlewood

  Believe, Inspiration, Musical

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• Those caught in the cycle of self-concern suffer helplessly, while the compassionate are more free and, implicitly, more happy.

  Robert Thurman

  Inspiration, Self, Suffering

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• We're at a point in time which is analogous to when single-celled organisms were turning into multi-celled organisms. So we're the amoebas.

  Danny Hillis

  Inspiration, Organisms

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• HIV brings out the best and the worst in humanity, and the laws reflect these attitudes.

  Shereen El Feki

  Attitude, Inspiration, Law

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• Life is not an on and off switch. You don't have to have a military that is either in hard combat or is in the barracks.

  James G. Stavridis

  Military, Inspiration, Life Is

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• Songwriters can sort of get away with murder. You can throw out crazy theories and not have to back it up with data or graphs or research.

  Andrew Bird

  Crazy, Inspiration, Data

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• Cars are not a suit of clothes; cars are an avatar. Cars are an expansion of yourself: they take your thoughts, your ideas, your emotions, and they multiply it.

  Chris Bangle

  Inspiration, Ideas, Clothes

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• By loving and leaving all that oil has done for us ... we are able to then begin the creation of a world which is more resilient, more nourishing, and in which we find ourselves fitter, more skilled and more connected to each other.

  Rob Hopkins

  Inspiration, Oil, Leaving

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• It is this breathtaking image [of] success that motivates us and motivates kids to follow and understand rocket science: to understand the importance of physics and math and, in many ways, to have that awe at exploration of the frontiers of the unknown.

  Steve Jurvetson

  Inspiration, Kids, Math

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• The power of mathematics is often to change one thing into another, to change geometry into language.

  Marcus du Sautoy

  Inspiration, Language, Mathematics

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• If we could convert 0.03 percent of the sunlight that falls on the earth into energy, we could meet all of our projected needs for 2030.

  Ray Kurzweil

  Fall, Inspiration, Energy

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• It's very fashionable to talk about human trafficking, in this fantastic A-C hall. It's very nice for discussion, discourse, making films and everything. But it is not nice to bring them to our homes. It's not nice to give them employment in our factories, our companies. It's not nice for our children to study with their children. There it ends. That's my biggest challenge.

  Sunitha Krishnan

  Children, Nice, Inspiration

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

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• Modern language must be older than the cave paintings and cave engravings and cave sculptures and dance steps in the soft clay in the caves in Western Europe, in the Aurignacian Period some 35,000 years ago, or earlier. I can't believe they did all those things and didn't also have a modern language.

  Murray Gell-Mann

  Believe, Inspiration, Years

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• The software programs that make our body run ... were evolved in very different times. We'd like to actually change those programs. One little software program, called the fat insulin receptor gene, basically says, 'Hold onto every calorie, because the next hunting season may not work out so well.' That was in the interests of the species tens of thousands of years ago. We'd like to turn that program off.

  Ray Kurzweil

  Running, Inspiration, Hunting

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• I've heard it said that the most dangerous animal on the planet is the adolescent male.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Inspiration, Animal, Males

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• As the world is getting smaller, it becomes more and more important that we learn each other's dance moves, that we meet each other, we get to know each other, we are able to figure out a way to cross borders, to understand each other, to understand people's hopes and dreams, what makes them laugh and cry.

  Jehane Noujaim

  Dream, Moving, Inspiration

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• We transform the world, but we don't remember it. We adjust our baseline to the new level, and we don't recall what was there.

  Daniel Pauly

  Inspiration, World, Levels

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• [With depression] you get a real sense of shame, because your friends go, 'Oh come on, show me the lump, show me the x-rays,' and of course you've got nothing to show.

  Ruby Wax

  Real, Inspiration, Rays

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• My liberation as a man is tied to your liberation as a woman.

  Tony Porter

  Inspiration, Men, Liberation

  "For women, a seat at the table" by Richard Galant, www.cnn.com. December 8, 2010.

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