TED Talks: The Official TED Guide to Public Speaking
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An idea is anything that can change how people see the world. If you can conjure up a compelling idea in people’s minds, you have done something wondrous. You have given them a gift of incalculable value. In a very real sense, a little piece of you has become part of them.
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Don’t pin your happiness on the future.   If we can’t feel content here, today, now, on our journeys, amidst the mess and the striving that we all inhabit, the open loops, the half-finished to-do lists, the could-do-better-next-times, then we might never feel it.
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why do we chase happiness when we have the capacity within ourselves to manufacture the very commodity we crave?
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51 motivation, 15–16, 185, 188, 244–45