“No one ever achieved a goal by being interested in its achievement. One must be committed. In fact, in studying the source of people's success, I've found that persistence overshadows even talent as the most valued and effective resource in creating and shaping the quality of life. Most people give up a maddening five feet from their goal!” PeopleGivingFactsMotivationalFoundGoalQualityStudyFiveFeetTalentSourceGiving UpAchievementCreatingResourcesCommittedPersistenceBelieve In YourselfDedicationQuality Of LifeRecipe For SuccessGiving Up Is Not An OptionNever Surrender Book:Awaken The Giant Within Source: Awaken The Giant Within
“The criminal-justice system is, obviously, the sole source of racial tension in this country [USA] or the key institution to resolving the opportunity gap. It is a part of the broader set of challenges that we face in creating a more perfect union.” CountryFacesOpportunityChallengesJusticePerfectSourceKeysCreatingInstitutionsUnionsCriminalsUsaTensionGapsSoleJustice SystemCriminal JusticeCriminal Justice SystemRacial Tension Author:Barack Obama
“EdX will be a creating a platform which will be open source, not for profit, and a portal for a website where universities will offer their courses. For example, MIT courses will be offered as MITx and Harvard courses as HarvardX.” CoursesExampleSourceOffersCreatingUniversityProfitPlatformsWebsiteHarvardPortalOpen SourceMit Author:Anant Agarwal
“One problem with politics is that it is a zero sum game, i.e. politicians argue how to cut the pie smaller and smaller, by reshuffling pieces of the pie. I think this is destructive. Instead, we should be creating a bigger pie, i.e. funding the science that is the source of all our prosperity. Science is not a zero sum game.” ThinkingShouldProblemGamesPiecesCuttingSourcePoliticianCreatingBiggerProsperityArguingDestructiveZeroPieFundingZero Sum Game Author:Michio Kaku
“The sooner we switch away from carbon-based fuel and start relying on renewable energy sources available in the United States, the sooner we will grow our economy by creating the millions of new jobs that will come from retrofitting homes and businesses, building smart grids, renewable energy systems and planting trees and all the rest. We need to create a lot of jobs that can't be outsourced.” NeedsStatesHomeJobsEnergyGrowsUnitedMillionsUnited StatesEconomyTreeBuildingSourceCreatingSmartAvailableFuelCarbonRenewable EnergyNew JobGridsEnergy SourcesRenewable Energy SourcesOutsourced Author:Al Gore
“The ultimate goal of a habit-forming product is to solve the user's pain by creating an association so that the user identifies the company's product or service as the source of relief.” PainGoalCompanyProductsSourceHabitCreatingUltimateSolveReliefAssociationUsersUltimate Goal Book:Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products Source: Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products
“If you have a thought of hate, imagine a source that is responsible for creating everything in the Universe that's operating on hate. It wouldn't create things that it hated.” IfsHateUniverseImagineSourceCreatingResponsibleHated Author:Wayne Dyer
“The source that creates worlds always is creating and loving, and it excludes no one. It is a source of unlimited abundance. It is a source that has no judgment.” WorldSourceJudgmentCreatingAbundanceUnlimited Author:Wayne Dyer
“I think it's the source material. 27 Dresses was a famous book, and Devil Wears Prada was also a wonderful book, so it's coming out of the novelists who are really creating these wonderful female characters that we want to see on the big screen.” ThinkingWantBookCharacterBigsWonderfulMaterialsSourceCreatingDevilFemaleDressesScreensNovelistsComing OutFemale CharactersBig ScreenPradaFamous BookDevil Wears Prada Author:Jerry Bruckheimer
“And so in 1975, the grizzly bear was put on, as I said - on the endangered species list as threatened. And new measures were taken, for instance, bear-proofing garbage, creating new regulations to - essentially to try and keep people and people's food away from the bears, let the bears adjust to eating the abundant wild food that's available in Yellowstone and allow them to be more wild, to be independent of humans as sources of foods for the good of both sides. And that has been quite successful.” PeopleTryingHumansHas BeensSaidSidesSuccessfulTakenSourceBearsEatingCreatingIndependentSpeciesAvailableListsInstanceRegulationThreatenedBoth SidesGarbageEndangered SpeciesGrizzliesYellowstoneGrizzly Bears Author:David Quammen
“We know that things like energy independence, getting off oil, getting out of the Middle East, and creating jobs and economic development in the new clean energy industries of the future are much higher priorities for most voters than capping carbon emissions or taxing dirty energy sources. So why not redefine our agenda as the solution to those problems?” KnowsProblemJobsEnergyEconomicMiddleSourceDevelopmentIndustryHigherCreatingSolutionsIndependenceCleanOilEastPrioritiesDirtyAgendasWhy NotVotersMiddle EastCarbonEmissionsEconomic DevelopmentClean EnergyEnergy SourcesCarbon EmissionsCreating JobsEnergy IndependenceEnergy Industry Author:Ted Nordhaus