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  • Ted Talks Quotes: Writing, Language, and Art

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    Ted Talks: Writing, Language, and Art

    Each of you possesses the most powerful, dangerous and subversive trait that natural selection has ever devised. It’s a piece of neural audio technology for rewiring other people’s minds. I’m talking about your language. — Mark Pagel

    A novel, basically, is writing one sentence — then, without violating the scope of the first one, writing the next sentence. — Young-ha Kim

    Maybe stories are just data with a soul. — Brené Brown

    Art is a deception that creates real emotions — a lie that creates a truth. And when you give yourself over to that deception, it becomes magic. — Marco Tempest

    People live for love. They kill for love. They die for love. They have songs, poems, novels, sculptures, paintings, myths, legends. It’s one of the most powerful brain systems on Earth for both great joy and great sorrow. — Helen Fisher

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  • Ted Talks Quotes: Statistics and Probability

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    Ted Talks - Statistics and Probability

    I think if our students, if our high school students — if all American citizens — knew about probability and statistics, we wouldn’t be in the economic mess that we’re in today. — Arthur Benjamin

    The number-one cause of death in children under five? Water-borne diseases? Diarrhea? Malnutrition? No: It’s breathing the smoke from indoor cooking fires — acute respiratory infections. Over two million deaths every year. — Amy Smith

    There’s zero correlation between being the best talker and having the best ideas. — Susan Cain

    If we study what is merely average, we will remain merely average. — Shawn Achor

    From the perspective of climate change, the average urban dweller in the U.S. has about 1/3 the carbon footprint of the average suburban dweller. — Ellen Dunham-Jones

    The U.N. now says that one out of three women on the planet will be raped or beaten in their lifetime. We’re talking about the desecration of the primary resource of the planet. — Eve Ensler

    Humans in the developed world spend more than 90% of their lives indoors, where they breathe in and come into contact with trillions of life forms invisible to the naked eye: microorganisms. — Jessica Green

    Boys are 30% more likely than girls to drop out of school. In Canada, five boys drop out for every three girls. Girls outperform boys now at every level, from elementary school to graduate school. — Philip Zimbardo

    The typical American reports making about 70 choices in a typical day. — Sheena Iyengar

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  • Ted Talks Quotes: Business and Creativity

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    Ted Quotes - Business and Creativity

    If you hire people just because they can do a job, they’ll work for your money. But if you hire people who believe what you believe, they’ll work for you with blood and sweat and tears. — Simon Sinek

    If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original. — Ken Robinson

    Always be looking for that which you do well and that which you love doing, and when you find those two things together — man, you got it. — Colin Powell

    If you think of the Web in terms of the Gold Rush, then you’d be pretty depressed right now because the last nugget of gold would be gone. But the good thing is, with innovation, there isn’t a last nugget. — Jeff Bezos

    Trade is 10 times as old as farming. — Matt Ridley

    Free is really the gift of Silicon Valley to the world. It’s an economic force. It’s a technical force. It’s a deflationary force, if not handled right. It is abundance, as opposed to scarcity. Free is the most interesting thing. — Chris Anderson

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    In celebration of American Heart Month (February) . . . The American Heart Association works to teach people how to identify heart attacks and strokes as well as funds research and treatment for heart disease. Donate via http://www.americanheart.org, or by calling 800-242-8721.

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