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• Implementing best practice is copying yesterday; innovation is inventing tomorrow.

  Paul Sloane

  Best Practices, Yesterday, Thought Provoking

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• Developing countries present a real opportunity for sustainable consumption. There, we can start from a clean slate and develop appropriate products and services that serve people's needs in a more efficient, integrated way.

  Paul Meyer

  Country, Real, Opportunity

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• Economic history is the most fundamental branch of history; not the most important. Foundations exist to carry better things.

  John Clapham

  Challenges, Inspire, Important

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• Human beings are not things needing to be motivated and controlled; they are four dimensional - body, mind, heart, and spirit.

  Stephen Covey

  Heart, Challenges, Inspire

  Stephen R. Covey (2013). “The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• The forces, movements, and energies that today we call religious, spiritual, or faith-based have related through the ages in diverse ways to the spheres of life that today we call economic and that we see embodied in business and commerce.

  Martin E. Marty

  Spiritual, Religious, Challenges

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• There is a continuum that runs from character to productivity. Who you are and what you believe make a difference to those who look to you for leadership. The values you live will reach the bottom line of your company.

  Walter Wright

  Running, Believe, Character

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• Dreamers are mocked as impractical. The truth is they are the most practical, as their innovations lead to progress and a better way of life for all of us.

  Robin Sharma

  Powerful, Thought Provoking, Innovation

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• Storytellers broaden our minds: engage, provoke, inspire, and ultimately, connect us.

  Robert Redford

  Weekend, Inspire, Mind

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

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• What really matters is that there is so much faith and love and kindliness which we can share with and provoke in others, and that by cleanly, simple, generous living we approach perfection in the highest and most lovely of all arts. . . . But you, I think, have always comprehended this.

  James Branch Cabell

  Life, Art, Simple

  James Branch Cabell (2013). “The Essential James Branch Cabell Collection”, p.180, eBookIt.com

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• Spend time cultivating your deepest desires, no matter how impractical or impossible they seem. It's perfectly OK to want the impossible. It's not OK to pretend that your desires don't matter.

  Steve Pavlina

  Thought Provoking, Desire, Want

  Steve Pavlina (2010). “Personal Development for Smart People”, p.65, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• "Stop asking "What should I do now?" That question only brings up what others expect of you. Free people don't have shoulds. They have choices."

  Steve Pavlina

  People, Thought Provoking, Choices

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• Regardless of others' reactions, do your best to stay true to yourself. Make the choices that allow you to look in the mirror and feel good about the person gazing back at you.

  Steve Pavlina

  Mirrors, Thought Provoking, Choices

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• If you are situated at a great distance from the enemy, and the strength of the two armies is equal, it is not easy to provoke a battle, and fighting will be to your disadvantage.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, War, Distance

  Sun Tzu, Julius Caesar, Einhard, Niccolò Machiavelli, Carl von Clausewitz (2016). “Strategy Six Pack”, p.23, Lulu.com

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• The only thing more dangerous than an idea is a belief. And by dangerous I don't mean thought-provoking. I mean: might get people killed.

  Sarah Vowell

  Mean, Ideas, People

  Sarah Vowell (2008). “The Wordy Shipmates”, p.10, Penguin

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• In the parallel universe the laws of physics are suspended. What goes up does not necessarily come down, a body at rest does not tend to stay at rest and not every action can be counted on to provoke an equal and opposite reaction. Time, 'too, is different. It may run in circles, flow backward, skip about from now to then. The very arrangement of molecules is fluid: Tables can be clocks, faces, flowers.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Running, Flower, Law

  Susanna Kaysen (2013). “Girl, Interrupted”, p.6, Vintage

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• ‎The greatest danger of a terrorist's bomb is in the explosion of stupidity that it provokes.

  Octave Mirbeau

  Stupidity, Bombs, Terrorism

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• I was going to save the world, and I thought I would start with the African continent.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Thought Provoking, World, African Continent

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• Entertainment provides relief. Art provokes engagement.

  David Foster Wallace

  Art, Relief, Engagement

  "Lady Gaga’s All-American Super Bowl Halftime Show" by Amanda Petrusich, www.newyorker.com. February 6, 2017.

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• Risk the stuff. It's worthless anyway. But don't make the insane choice of sacrificing your happiness for stuff.

  Steve Pavlina

  Sacrifice, Thought Provoking, Choices

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• The numbing mind-ream of knowing you're alone not because people won't accept you but because you find so little worth accepting. An imposed solitude is better than simply tolerating your company in waiting for something better. So loneliness is not such a terrible thing when you consider that the alternative to thought provoking solace is to be surrounded only by remindings of why that solitude is preferable.

  Jhonen Vasquez

  Loneliness, Knowing, People

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• Numb, I took the perfectly browned puff. Okay. Let me see if I have this right. Al provokes me into defending myself. I nearly kill him. Then Newt tries to kill me, thinking I'm Ku'Sox. Al stops her, saving my life. And now we're all going to have s'mores together?

  Kim Harrison

  Thinking, Trying, Together

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• Perhaps I'm too saucy or provoking?

  Benjamin Franklin

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• I learned that accepting others and accepting myself are two sides of the same coin; you can't love and accept yourself without doing the same for others.

  Steve Pavlina

  Two Sides, Thought Provoking, Coins

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• As her sons have seen her: the mother in patriarchy: controlling, erotic, castrating, heart-suffering, guilt-ridden, and guilt-provoking; a marble brow, a huge breast, an avid cave; between her legs snakes, swamp-grass, or teeth; on her lap a helpless infant or a martyred son. She exists for one purpose: to bear and nourish the son.

  Adrienne Rich

  Mother, Heart, Son

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• And it will fall out as in a complication of diseases, that by applying a remedy to one sore, you will provoke another; and that which removes the one ill symptom produces others.

  Thomas More

  Change, Fall, Disease

  Thomas More (2010). “Utopia”, p.44, Bibliolis Books

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