"Knowing how to keep someone motivated and how to keep a connection are skills humans have learned and evolved over hundreds of thousands of years. A robot can't figure out whether you can do one more push-up, or how to motivate you to actually do it."

-- Erik Brynjolfsson

#Motivated Quotes

“Being a parent is a weird juggling act - and nobody does it right. Everybody does it wrong.”
“The seated lotus postures are an amazing way to go into meditation, or simply just to take a moment to ground oneself.”
“The president said nothing about the views of government in regard to the possibility of Carolinas seceding. This however was frequently spoken of by other statesmen at the North. I think they were unanimous in this, that no army would be sent here.”
“No political dreamer was ever wild enough to think of breaking down the lines which separate the States and compounding the American people into one common mass.”

Source : John Marshall (1839). “The Writings of John Marshall: Late Chief Justice of the United States, Upon the Federal Constitution”, p.162
“Of all the excellent copyedits I've received over the years, Marie-Lynn Hammond's was by far the best. Her work on Half Blood Blues was incredibly sensitive and astute.”
“Commit to a career built on sacrifice, not compromise.”

Source : FaceBook post by DeVon Franklin from Mar 15, 2013
“There is nothing more powerful than a new idea in the hands of a social entrepreneur”
“Libraries have a special role to play in our knowledge economy. Your institutions have been and should be a place where parents and children come to read together and learn together. We should take our kids there more.”

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