“If we had no bias, if we had no preconceptions, what kind of forms could we design?” Quote by Michael Hansmeyer
“Chinese workers are not forced into factories because of our insatiable desire for iPods. They choose to leave their homes in order to earn money, to learn new skills, and to see the world.” WorldHomeInspirationDesireMotivationOrderSkillsWorkersChineseFactoriesIpodsInsatiableNew Skills Author:Leslie T. Chang
“Questions [about our healthcare system] are not hard because the answers are complicated, they are hard because they require that we be honest with ourselves.” HardInspirationMotivationAnswersHonestComplicatedBeing HonestHealthcare Author:Rebecca Onie
“Our family was too strange and weird for even Santa Claus to come visit ... Santa, who was jolly - but, let's face it, he was also very judgmental.” InspirationFacesMotivationStrangeOur FamilySantaJudgmentalSanta ClausJolly Author:Julia Sweeney
“While the political right may moralize sex, the political left is doing it with food. Food is becoming extremely moralized nowadays, and a lot of it is ideas about purity, about what you're willing to touch, or put into your body.” MayIdeasBodyInspirationPoliticalMotivationLeftSexWillingBecomingYour BodyPurity Author:Jonathan Haidt
“In the world of the Middle East at the moment, the debates are shrill. But ... the wisest voice of all of them may well be the voice of this mute thing, the Cyrus cylinder.” WorldWellsMayMomentsInspirationMotivationVoiceMiddleEastDebateMiddle EastWisestMuteCylinders Author:Neil MacGregor
“More people die on a per mile basis from drunk walking than from drunk driving.” PeopleInspirationMotivationDiesWalkingBasesDrivingMilesDrunkHealthcareDrunk Driving Author:A. J. Jacobs
“I no longer try to be right; I choose to be happy.” TryingInspirationMotivationChoose To Be Happy Author:Ric Elias
“Each of us has about 100,000 [kinesins] running around, right now, inside each one of your 100 trillion cells. So no matter how lazy you feel, you're not really intrinsically doing nothing.” FeelsMatterInspirationRunningMotivationRight NowCellsLazyDoing Nothing Author:David Bolinsky
“If your friends are obese, your risk of obesity is 45 percent higher. ... If your friend's friends are obese, your risk of obesity is 25 percent higher. ... If your friend's friend's friend, someone you probably don't even know, is obese, your risk of obesity is 10 percent higher. It's only when you get to your friend's friend's friend's friends that there's no longer a relationship between that person's body size and your own body size.” IfsKnowsPersonsBodyInspirationMotivationRiskHigherPercentSizeHealthcareObesityObese Author:Nicholas A. Christakis
“Both my nine- and seven-year-olds have a stockbroker already.” YearsInspirationMotivationSevenNineSeven YearsStockbrokers Author:Cameron Herold