Motivation Quotes - Page 29

• In a time where the world is becoming personalized, when the mobile phone, the burger, everything has its own personal identity, how should we perceive ourselves and how should we perceive others?

  Al-Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani

  Inspiration, Phones, Identity

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• What I consider to be peace [is] a sustainable peace in which the majority of people on this planet have access to enough resources to live dignified lives.

  Jody Williams

  Inspiration, People, Majority

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• What if every seemingly isolated object was actually just where the continuous wave of that object poked through into our world?

  Reuben Heyday Margolin

  Inspiration, Our World, What If

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• The chicken is a dinosaur. I mean, it really is. You can't argue with it, because we're the classifiers and we've classified it that way.

  Jack Horner

  Inspiration, Mean, Dinosaurs

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• Everybody's got a worldview. Everybody's betting their life on something. ... You just better know why you're betting what you're betting on.

  Rick Warren

  Inspiration, Worldview, Betting

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• We went to Ladakh ... and we asked this woman, 'What was the benefit you had from solar electricity?' And she thought for a minute and said, 'It's the first time I can see my husband's face in winter.'

  Bunker Roy

  Husband, Inspiration, Winter

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• A story is the relationship that you develop between who you are, or who you potentially are, and the infinite world.

  Shekhar Kapur

  Inspirational, Relationship, Who I Am

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• DNA ties us all together; we share ancestry with barracuda and bacteria and mushrooms, if you go far enough back.

  Spencer Wells

  Inspiration, Dna, Mushrooms

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• That was the first time I've drawn anything for seven years. I feel like I had been held underwater, and someone finally reached down and pulled my head up so I could breathe.

  Mick Ebeling

  Inspiration, Years, Underwater

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• Panic is the great access of creativity because that's the only way to get rid of your mind.

  Shekhar Kapur

  Inspiration, Creativity, Mind

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• There's very good evidence that the average cat in Europe has a larger environmental footprint in its lifetime than the average African.

  Jason W Clay

  Inspiration, Cat, Average

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• Merely watching a romantic comedy causes relationship satisfaction to plummet. Apparently, the bitter realization that maybe it could happen to us, but it obviously hasn't and it probably never will, makes our lives seem unbearably grim in comparison.

  Jenna McCarthy

  Inspiration, Realization, Satisfaction

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• Our bodies are home to trillions of microbes, and these creatures define who we are.

  Jessica Green

  Inspiration, Home, Body

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• How do I create something out of nothing? And how do I create my own life? I think it is by questioning, and saying to myself that there are no absolute truths.

  Amy Tan

  Inspiration, Thinking, Questioning

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• The inability to experience regret is one of the diagnostic characteristics of sociopaths.

  Kathryn Schulz

  Regret, Inspiration, Inability

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• Think about what artists, novelists and poets have in common: the ability to engage in metaphorical thinking, linking seemingly unrelated ideas, such as, 'It is the east, and Juliet is the Sun.'

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

  Inspiration, Artist, Thinking

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• Back in the 1960s Africa not only fed itself, it also exported food. Not anymore.

  George Ayittey

  Inspiration, Feds, 1960s

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• What can the redwoods tell us about ourselves? Well, I think they can tell us something about human time. The flickering, transitory quality of human time and the brevity of human life - the necessity to love.

  Richard Preston

  Inspiration, Thinking, Quality

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• Archives exist because there's something that can't necessarily be articulated. Something is said in the gaps between all the information.

  Taryn Simon

  Inspiration, Archives, Information

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• If everything is made up of little particles and all the little particles follow quantum mechanics, then shouldn't everything just follow quantum mechanics?

  Aaron D. O'Connell

  Inspiration, Littles, Mechanic

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• The prime minister is 12 years old. She looks after 20 goats in the morning, but she's prime minister in the evening.

  Bunker Roy

  Morning, Inspiration, Years

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• In health care today, we spend most of the dollars - in terms of treating disease - in the last two years of a person's life.

  David Agus

  Inspiration, Years, Two

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• I don't feel like a different person. My motivation has always been to do technology apps and companies, not making money. Just because the money's come, nothing's changed.

  Nick D'Aloisio

  Technology, Different, Making Money

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• In team sports the athletes were bonded by each other, there was an immense peer pressure to keep going. One dared not miss a practice for fear of letting his teammates down. Every time an athlete thought of getting back into bed in the morning he knew he would have to face the anger of his closest friends. But the sculler had to find motivation entirely within himself. No one else cared.

  David Halberstam

  Sports, Morning, Team

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• Vengeance is a strange human motivation --- it can drive a man to do things which he neither would nor could achieve without it ... and because of that it lies behind some of the greatest sagas of human literature!

  H. Beam Piper

  Lying, Men, Literature

  H. Beam Piper (2011). “Space Viking”, p.4, The Floating Press

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