“An innovator is one who does not know it cannot be done.” KnowsDoeDoneInspirationMotivationalMotivationInnovationInnovatorsActive Minds Author:Raghunath Anant Mashelkar
“Ten percent of American businesses disappear every year. ... It's far higher than the failure rate of, say, Americans. Ten percent of Americans don't disappear every year. Which leads us to conclude American businesses fail faster than Americans, and therefore American businesses are evolving faster than Americans.” YearsInspirationMotivationFailingHigherTenPercentRateDisappearFasterEvolveAmerican Business Author:Tim Harford
“Aesthetic judgments, rather than abstract reasoning, guide and shape the process by which we all come to know what we know.” KnowsInspirationMotivationProcessShapesJudgmentGuidesAbstractReasoningAesthetic Author:Daniel Tammet
“As a black person in America, I am twice as likely as a white person to live in an area where air pollution poses the greatest risk to my health. I am five times more likely to live within walking distance of a power plant or chemical facility, which I do.” PersonsInspirationAmericaMotivationBlackWhiteFiveRiskAirWalkingAreasDistancePlantChemicalsHealthcarePollutionFacilityBlack PersonPower PlantsAir PollutionAir Quality Author:Majora Carter
“You think of yourselves as human beings, but I think of you as 99 percent bacterial.” ThinkingHumansInspirationMotivationHuman BeingsPercentThink Of YouI Think Of You Author:Bonnie Bassler
“We all hate moral ambiguity in some sense, and yet it is also absolutely necessary. In writing a story, it is the place where I begin.” WritingStoriesInspirationMotivationHateMoralAmbiguityMoral Ambiguity Author:Amy Tan
“In perhaps 50 years, 60 years, we can finish completely this civilization, and offer to our children the possibility to invent a new story, a new poetry, a new romanticism.” YearsChildrenStoriesInspirationMotivationPossibilityCivilizationOffersOur ChildrenRomanticism Author:Philippe Starck
“'I wish for a better life. I wish for food for my children. I wish that sexual abuse and exploitation in schools would stop.' This is the dream of the African girl.” ChildrenDreamInspirationSchoolMotivationGirlWishAbuseMy ChildrenChanging The WorldExploitationBetter Life Author:Leymah Gbowee
“Racism is predictable. It's predicted by interaction or lack thereof with people unlike you, people of other races.” PeopleInspirationMotivationRaceLike YouRacismInteractionPredictable Author:Nate Silver
“[A community chalkboard is] about knowing you're not alone. It's about understanding our neighbors in new and enlightening ways.” WayInspirationMotivationUnderstandingCommunityKnowingNeighborNot AloneEnlighteningChalkboards Author:Candy Chang