“Compassion has enemies, and those enemies are things like pity, moral outrage, fear.” InspirationMotivationCompassionMoralEnemyPityOutrageMoral Outrage Author:Joan Halifax
“It's tens of millions of calculations just to design one connection between a piece of structural steel and another piece of structural steel.” InspirationMotivationMillionsPiecesDesignConnectionsSteelCalculations Author:Greg Lynn
“The point about democracy is not that it delivers legitimate, effective, prosperous rule of law. It's not that it guarantees peace with itself or with its neighbors. ... Democracy matters because it reflects an idea of equality.” IdeasMatterInspirationLawMotivationDemocracyNeighborGuaranteesProsperousRule Of Law Author:Rory Stewart
“[Americans] think that choice, as seen through the American lens, best fulfills an innate and universal desire for choice in all humans. Unfortunately, these beliefs are based on assumptions that don't always hold true in many countries, in many cultures.” ThinkingHumansCountryInspirationDesireMotivationChoicesCultureBeliefUniversalAssumptionLensesInnate Author:Sheena Iyengar
“Farmers in America ... are pretty large in general. Their farms are also large. But farmers in the rest of the world are quite skinny, and that's because they're starving.” WorldInspirationAmericaMotivationFarmsFarmersSkinnyStarving Author:Ellen Gustafson
“From a genomic perspective, we are all Africans.” InspirationMotivationPerspectiveGenomics Author:Svante Paabo
“I said, 'Don, what's sustainable about feeding chicken to fish?'” SaidInspirationMotivationFishesChickensFeeding Author:Dan Barber
“Maybe we all need to leave our children with a value legacy, and not a financial one. A value for things with a personal touch - an autographed book, a soul-searching letter.” NeedsChildrenBookSoulInspirationMotivationValuesLettersOur ChildrenFinancialLegacySoul SearchingPersonal Touch Author:Lakshmi Pratury
“You can define how strong a democracy is by how its government treats ... the child of the state.” ChildrenStatesInspirationGovernmentMotivationStrongDemocracyTreats Author:Lemn Sissay
“[There are] unseen objects that await us, if we as architects begin to think about designing not the object, but a process to generate objects.” IfsThinkingInspirationMotivationProcessDesignObjectsArchitectUnseen Author:Michael Hansmeyer