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Sheena Iyengar Psychologist
Giving

"You know, you take a little infant and you turn on the music mobile on their crib and you find that if you give them a music mobile which turns on automatically versus a music mobile in which - if by chance their little legs or their little hands accidentally touches it - turns on they're so much more excited if by chance it turns on because they touched it, so that desire for control over their environment is... really appears from very early on and if you look at children's first words, "no, yes.""

Children Giving Hands
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Richard P. Feynman Physicist
Giving

"People are always asking for the latest developments in the unification of this theory with that theory, and they don't give us a chance to tell them anything about what we know pretty well. They always want to know the things we don't know."

People Giving Asking
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Richie Faulkner Musician
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"It's also giving back to the community that put us all there in the first place. Priest wouldn't be here without the support of the fans. As soon as I joined the band [ Judas Priest], I got it straight away. Especially in my situation, since I've only been here five minutes. I was a fan."

Giving Community Support
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Shirley Geok-lin Lim Poet, Novelist
Giving

"Rather, the collapsing between act and condition, "I am" with "I do," feels like authenticity, an authenticity of being. The muse rewarded me for a few months, after April of 2012, by giving me poems, almost a poem each day, that I can claim as coming from my writer's status."

Giving Months Each Day
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Rick Wright Musician
Giving

"We worked very hard to make the lyrics suit the music. I can't, like Elton John, for example, compose by lyrics. Elton has a great talent for that. Whatever you give him, including your questions, he composes in half an hour and makes a great song out of it."

Giving Song Music
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Sigmund Freud Neurologist, Psychoanalyst
Giving

"If one wishes to form a true estimate of the full grandeur of religion, one must keep in mind what it undertakes to do for men. It gives them information about the source and origin of the universe, it assures them of protection and final happiness, and it guides - by - precepts - backed by the full force of its authority."

Men Giving Mind
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Ricky Jay Magician
Giving

"I wouldn't want to try to make a living as an actor. I think actors... I give them a lot of credit for what they go through, but putting myself on the line like that would make me crazy."

Thinking Giving Crazy
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Ricky Williams Football Player
Giving

"My whole thing in life is I just want freedom. I thought that money would give me that freedom. I was wrong. It bound me more than it freed me, because now I had more things to worry about, more people asking for money, I thought I had to buy a house and nice cars and different things that people with money are supposed to do."

People Giving Nice
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Simon Sinek Author, Motivational Speaker
Giving

"Academic experts may not be good at doing what they are experts in themselves, but they are good at explaining the subject matter to others. They write books, teach courses and offer lessons and give steps others can follow."

Writing Giving Book
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Simon Sinek Author, Motivational Speaker
Giving

"If you're interested in a book that will steadily grow and sell for a very long time, I promise you I will give you that."

Giving Book Long
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Simon Sinek Author, Motivational Speaker
Giving

"If you're looking for a book that will spike in sales and then go away and then spike again when it comes out in paperback, your normal model, I definitely won't give you that."

Giving Book Going Away
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Simon Sinek Author, Motivational Speaker
Giving

"Pilots have their names painted just beneath the canopy of their aircraft. This gives the pilot a sense of ownership for his or her jet. What's more, like cars, each aircraft has its own personality, so it's important for a pilot to get to know and love his aircraft."

Giving Names Car
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Simon Sinek Author, Motivational Speaker
Giving

"I put messages out there that start with why and they talk about what I believe. They go on to demonstrate and give examples. If it resonates with others, those with whom it resonates will share it with their friends and say, "This inspired me. You should watch it. You should read this.""

Believe Giving Example
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