“[My] hunger and thirst was, and still remains: How do I get people who hate poetry to love me?” Quote by Lemon Andersen
“In many ways, the idea of resilience is a more useful concept than the idea of sustainability.” WayIdeasInspirationMotivationConceptsResilienceSustainability Author:Rob Hopkins
“It takes fifteen pounds of wild fish to get you one pound of farm tuna. Not very sustainable. It doesn't taste very good either.” InspirationMotivationTasteVery GoodFishesPoundsFarmsFifteenTuna Author:Dan Barber
“It [doesn't matter] what you look like, where you come from, or what you do for a living. All that matters is that we continue to fan the flame of humanity by living our lives as the ultimate creative expression of who we really are.” LooksMatterInspirationMotivationHumanityCreativeOur LivesFansExpressionUltimateFlamesWhere You ComeCreative Expression Author:Janine Shepherd
“Although we human adults are really good at understanding other minds, we weren't always that way. It takes children a long time to break into the system.” WayMindHumansChildrenLongInspirationMotivationUnderstandingBreakLong TimeAdultsUnderstanding Others Author:Rebecca Saxe
“We have a lot to learn from [bonobos], because they're a very egalitarian society and they're a very empathetic society. Sexual behavior is not confined to one aspect of their life that they set aside. It permeates their entire life.” InspirationMotivationBehaviorAspectConfinedEmpatheticBonobos Author:Sue Savage-Rumbaugh
“Feminism, unlike almost every other social movement, is not a struggle against a distinct oppressor - it's not the ruling class or the occupiers or the colonizers - it's against a deeply held set of beliefs and assumptions that we women, far too often, hold ourselves.” InspirationMotivationBeliefSocialClassStruggleFeminismMovementAssumptionRulingOppressorsSocial Movements Author:Kavita Ramdas
“[Anti-aging therapies will] never be perfect, but we'll be able to fix the things that 200-year-olds die of before we have any 200-year-olds, and the same for 300 and 400 and so on.” YearsInspirationAbleMotivationDiesPerfectAgingTherapyHealthcare Author:Aubrey de Grey
“There is a tendency to think that if we engage too directly with moral questions in politics, that's a recipe for disagreement, and for that matter, a recipe for intolerance and coercion.” IfsThinkingMatterInspirationMotivationMoralTendenciesIntoleranceRecipesCoercionDisagreement Author:Michael Sandel
“One of the founding moments of public health in the 19th century effectively poisoned the water supply of London much more effectively than any modern day bioterrorist could have ever dreamed of doing.” MomentsInspirationMotivationWaterModernCenturyLondonHealthcareFounding19th CenturyPublic HealthModern Day Author:Steven Johnson
“Just because a person spends her time making a piece of something does not mean that she becomes that - a piece of something.” MeanPersonsDoeInspirationMotivationPieces Author:Leslie T. Chang