Motivation Quotes - Page 28

• We are like the birds. We adapt. We sing.

  David Byrne

  Inspiration, Bird

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• For 200 years, the West has been so dominant in the world that it's not really needed to understand other cultures, other civilizations. Because, at the end of the day, it could, if necessary by force, get its own way.

  Martin Jacques

  Inspiration, Years, Other Cultures

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• There are two billion fellow human beings who live on less than $2 a day.

  Hans Rosling

  Inspiration, Two, Billions

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• We don't just respond to things as we see them, or feel them, or hear them. Rather, our response is conditioned on our beliefs, about what they really are, what they came from, what they're made of, what their hidden nature is.

  Paul Bloom

  Inspiration, Belief, Made

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• [Conservatives] go to church, they do lots of things for free for each other. They hold potluck dinners. ... They serve food to poor people. They share, they give, they give away for free. It's the very same people leading Wall Street firms who, on Sundays, show up and share.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Wall, Inspiration, Sunday

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• It's time to stop building the shopping malls, the prisons, the stadiums and other tributes to all of our collective failures. It is time that we start building living monuments to hope and possibility.

  Majora Carter

  Inspiration, Shopping, Prison

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• I have stepped outside my comfort zone enough to know that, yes, the world does fall apart, but not in the way that you fear.

  Tan Le

  Fall, Inspiration, Comfort

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• I had drunk our great cultural Kool-Aid about regret, which is that lamenting things that occurred in the past is an absolute waste of time, that we should always look forward and not backward, and that one of the noblest and best things we can do is strive to live a life free of regrets.

  Kathryn Schulz

  Regret, Inspiration, Past

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• We've been trained to squint into a legal microscope, hoping that we can judge any dispute against the standard of a perfect society where everyone will agree what's fair, and where accidents will be extinct, and risk will be no more.

  Philip K. Howard

  Inspiration, Perfect, Judging

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There is a growing subculture of barefoot runners, people who got rid of their shoes. And what they have found uniformly is you get rid of the shoes, you get rid of the stress, you get rid of the injuries and the ailments.

  Christopher McDougall

  Stress, Inspiration, Shoes

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• Having an experience is taking part in the world. Taking part in the world is really about sharing responsibility.

  Olafur Eliasson

  Life, Inspiration, Responsibility

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• In my mother's day, she didn't go to college. Not a lot of women did. Now for every two men who get a college degree, three women will do the same.

  Hanna Rosin

  Mother, Inspiration, College

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• It's not about fooling somebody, it's actually giving somebody a measure of their own belief: how much you want to be fooled. That's why we pay to go to magic shows and things like that.

  Vik Muniz

  Inspiration, Giving, Magic

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• Any virus that's been sequenced today - that genome can be made.

  Craig Venter

  Inspiration, Viruses, Today

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• Everything I'm going to present to you was not in my textbooks when I went to school ... not even in my college textbooks. I'm a geophysicist, and [in] all my Earth science books when I was a student - I had to give the wrong answer to get an A.

  Robert Ballard

  Book, Inspiration, School

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• Everything that can happen, does. That's quantum mechanics. But this does not mean everything happens. The rest of physics is about describing what can happen and what can't.

  Antony Garrett Lisi

  Inspiration, Mean, Doe

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• Don't negotiate with terrorists; patent trolls have done more damage to the United States economy than any domestic or foreign terrorist organization in history, every year.

  Drew Curtis

  Inspiration, Years, Organization

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• Domestic abuse happens only in intimate, interdependent, long-term relationships - in other words, in families - the last place we would want or expect to find violence.

  Leslie Morgan Steiner

  Inspiration, Long, Abuse

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• We're losing a ritual. We're losing a ritual that I believe is transformative, transcendent, and is at the heart of the patient-physician relationship.

  Abraham Verghese

  Believe, Inspiration, Heart

  "A doctor's touch". TED Talks, www.ted.com. July 2011.

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• It's not just about life, of course; it's about healthy life. Getting frail and miserable and dependent is no fun, whether or not dying may be fun.

  Aubrey de Grey

  Fun, Inspiration, Healthy

  "A roadmap to end aging". TED conference, www.ted.com. July 2005.

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• Avoid war, because that always pushes human beings backward.

  Hans Rosling

  War, Inspiration, Humans

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• If China and India were as rich as the United States is today, the market for cancer drugs would be eight times larger than it is now.

  Alex Tabarrok

  Cancer, Inspiration, Eight

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• [We] administered testosterone to men; instead of sharing money, they become selfish. Interestingly, high testosterone males are also more likely to use their own money to punish others for being selfish.

  Paul J. Zak

  Selfish, Inspiration, Men

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• The richer we are, the longer we live. And the longer we live, the more expensive it is to take care of our diseases as we get older.

  Alan Russell

  Inspiration, Care, Disease

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• The global economy is becoming a place where women are more successful than men, and these economic changes are starting to rapidly affect our culture - what our romantic comedies look like, what our marriages look like, what our dating lives look like, and our new set of superheroes.

  Hanna Rosin

  Inspiration, Successful, Men

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