Ted Talks Quotes

• I feel like great TED Talks are ones that are a little bit subject to interpretation, that do provoke further conversation - and potentially controversy.

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  Damon Lindelof

  Littles   Ted Talks   Conversation  

  411

• I saw the first one [video with Hans Rosling ] when he did - I think it was his first one - in 2006, a TED Talk. And for the first time in my life, I thought here's someone who can take statistics that most people regard as dull and boring and bring it alive.

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  Keith Devlin

  Thinking   People   Firsts  

  Source: www.npr.org

  1609

• Learning is available at the library for free; under a tree with a dog-eared paperback; at a job with a boss who gives you responsibility and mentorship; while traveling; while leading a cause, movement, or charity; while writing a novel or composing a poem or crafting a song; while interning, apprenticing, or volunteering; while playing a sport or immersing yourself in a language; while starting a business; and now, while watching a TED talk or taking a Khan Academy class.

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  Michael Ellsberg

  Sports   Dog   Song  

  4006

• I didn't really - at least intellectually and creatively - have a particularly compelling experience in college. But during my junior year, they made the TED talks public. So I started listening to them. They were producing one per day, and I was listening to one per day, every day, at the gym.

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  Maria Popova

  College   Years   Listening  

  1028

• I look at myself more as a storyteller than a screenwriter, as pretentious as that may sound, but that's what really attracts me to TED Talks. For me, the really effective ones are being presented by expert storytellers.

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  Damon Lindelof

  Ted Talks   May   Sound  

  5127

• What's important to me is that I put messages out, whether it's a TED talk, whether it's a book.

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  Simon Sinek

  Book   Important   Ted Talks  

  Source: advisor.tv

  4177