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What is your favourite single sentence from a TED Talk?
Credit to Emily McManus for this conversation: http://www.ted.com/conversations/10/what_s_your_favorite_single_se.html
I wanted to keep it going since it really can serve as an important place to store those most succinct and powerful utterances.
I was so struck by Aaron O'Connell closing remarks from his talk in the 4th session of TED2011. Poorly recalled is would be:
"Just as quantum objects are defined by their relationships to other objects, so to are people defined by our connections to other people".
If you can better the quote please do so.
Please share your favourites from TED2011 here.
Amani Khalil 50+
You mentally visualize and affirm and re-affirm your assets and keep your thoughts on them, emphasizing them to the fullest extent, you will rise out of any difficulty regardless of what it may be.
Thoughts create words, for words are the vehicles of ideas. but words also affect thoughts and help to condition if not create attitudes.
How foolish to manufacture personal unhappiness to add to all the other difficulties over which you have little or no control!
The way to happiness; keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, except little, give much. Fill your life with love. Scatter sunshine. Forget yourfself, think of others. Do as you would be done by.
"According to your faith be it unto you" (Matthey ix. 29.)
Results do not yield themselves to the person who refuses to give himself to the desired results.
"Throw your heart over the bar and your body will follow"
Fire the heart with where you want to go and what you want to be. Get it so deeply fixed in your unconscious that you will not take no for an answer, then your entire personality will follow where your heart leads. "Throw your heart over the bar" means to throw your faith over your difficulties, throw your affirmation over every barrier, throw your visualization over your obstacles. In other words, throw the spiritual essence of you over the bar and your material self will follow in the victory groove thus pioneered by your faith-inspired mind. Expect that best, not the worst, and you will attain you heart's desire. It is what is in the heart of you, either good or bad, strong or weak, that finally comes to you.
Vrashabh Irde
Richard Nosworthy
Nikhil Bhojwani 50+
"You've given the lectures, so now what do we do ... what I do is I assign the lectures for homework...and what used to be homework, I now have the students doing in the classroom." (Sal Khan).
I like it because the idea of this "flipping" is so fundamental to the Khan academy's achievement.
Kiran Batta 10+
Bilal Randeree 20+
Carol Harnett 100+
- Erik Erikson, as quoted by Doris Kearns Goodwin, TED 2008.
Maia Bez
Joe Delsen 20+
John, my long suspicion is this: the scientific bond of our humanity is in the quantum nature of our hearts and minds and the possibility of its existence in another dimension.
I think that since we don't have a complete knowledge of quantum mechanics yet and hence our knowledge of these matters is still a fringe of science, we can however think of the possibilities. I'm not a scientist so maybe a fellow tedster can help me here:
1. Quantum Mind Theory - http://bit.ly/QuantumMIndTheory
2. NDE research - http://bit.ly/NDEresearch
3. Quantum Teleportation - http://bit.ly/QuantumTeleportation
4. The nature of neutrino being able to pass through ordinary matter almost unaffected
5. Our common ability to feel the emotion of our loved ones living in distant places
Joe Delsen 20+
- Jonathan Haidt - Author,"Happiness Hypothesis" (TED talk on moral roots of liberals and conservatives)
Veronica Martinez 100+
Caroline Casey: Looking Past Limits
http://www.ted.com/talks/caroline_casey_looking_past_limits.html
Carole Viaene 20+
Nate Buwalda 20+
- Charles Eames
Jordan Miller 20+
1. "It is the voice of life that calls us to come and learn"
2. "Mocking Birds are Bad-Ass!"
Kourosh Razghandi
natasha nikulina 50+
Matthieu Ricard
James Dial
Bernd Fesel 30+
"urbanism is doing its job. the fact that a protest is happening, does mean that the layout of the city is a great thing"
http://www.ted.com/talks/ellen_dunham_jones_retrofitting_suburbia.html
Parikshit Mukerjee
Kyra Choucroun 500+
Michael Kropiniski
jag . 50+
“Many answers to what you seek don’t lie “out there”. If you look inwards, you’ll find the answer has been in you all along.”
“The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.”
‘’Bad situations happen for me, not to me’’
"You can go on changing the outer for lives and you will never be satisfied; something or other will remain to be changed. Unless the inner changes, the outer can never be perfect."
“Be yourself, you’ve got no choice”
“Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.”
‘’The quality of your life is determined by the quality of your thoughts.”
“Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.” – Buddha
“Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a method of travelling.”
“Whenever you see something you dislike, it represents something you are repelling inside of you.”
“Our sorrows and wounds are healed only when we touch them with compassion.” – Buddha
‘’Everything that irritates us (and causes us immense pain) about others can lead us to an understanding about ourselves’’. – Carl Jung
‘’So you have some enemies…good, that means you stood up for something!” – Winston Churchill
‘’If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it. If you don’t ask, the answer is always no. If you don’t step forward, you’re always in the same place’’.
‘’The person who never made a mistake never tried anything new’’.
“You, as much as anyone in the universe, deserve your love and respect.” – Buddha
“Your task is not to seek for love but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it”
“If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.”
Jimbo Jones
Please tell me what this is from. I'd love to know.
Veronica Martinez 100+
jag . 50+
Jerry Christy 500+
Bemnet Gizachew
Conrad wolfram
Judge Pau 50+
But if I must, I'd go with :
"When we numb vulnerability we numb everything." - Brene Brown