Top 34 Ted Talk Quotes
#1. You want me,Andy. I can feel it.
Yes I want you, I admitted.
In a way you'll never want me.
Ginger Voight
#2. Ted Lewis could make the clarinet talk. What it said was put me back in the case!
Eddie Condon
#3. Here's the thing about Jews in Hollywood. Not to stereotype, but the Jews I know here are the funniest, most self-deprecating people I know. And it's rare to find a Jew that is actually offended by comedy about them.
Ben Feldman
#4. It wasn't as easy as you think. It's hard to stay awake that long.
Hugh Campbell
#5. Don't talk to me about the stars, about how cold and indifferent they are, about the unimaginable distances. There are millions of stars within us that are just as far, and people like me sometimes burn up a whole life trying to reach them.
Ted Kooser
#6. If you had a chance to do a TED talk, what would it be about? What have you discovered, what do you know, what can you teach? You should do one. Even if you don't do one, you should be prepared to do one.
Seth Godin
#7. And my editor, Tom Dupree, for his patience, enthusiasm, and shared good taste for loving Mystery Science Theater 3000.
Dan Simmons
#8. I'm a millionaire, I guess, but I'm just a normal person and I like everybody, taxi drivers, whoever you are, to call me by my first name and talk to me on a man-to-man basis. I think the garbage collector is as important as the goddamned president.
Ted Turner
#9. Night-time is when I brainstorm; last thing, when the family's asleep and I'm alone, I think about the next day's writing and plan a strategy for my assault on the blank page.
Athol Fugard
#10. Sometimes becoming drug free has less to do with addiction and more to do with sanity.
Shane Koyczan
#11. People always told me that my natural ability and good eyesight were the reasons for my success as a hitter. They never talk about the practice, practice, practice.
Ted Williams
#12. People who are driven by love will overcome hardships and hurdles in ways that people who are only driven by profit never can.
Simon S. Tam
#13. If you choose to do something, then you shouldn't say it's a sacrifice, because nobody forced you to do it.
Aung San Suu Kyi
#14. Let's make progress justice a process, not an afterthought
Simon S. Tam
#15. Maybe we should stop asking how do we get people to pay for music, and start asking how do we let them pay for music? from Ted Talk
Amanda Palmer
#16. My first bestseller was a cookbook. That will make any novelist humble.
Dan Alatorre
#17. How is AIDS research to progress when the premise of science is questioning but the premise of questioning HIV is considered so dangerous that even venturing into the facts is too great a risk?
Nate Mendel
#18. The first thing we did was to proclaim our Liverpoolness to the world, and say 'It's all right to come from Liverpool and talk like this'. Before, anybody from Liverpool who made it, like Ted Ray, Tommy Handley, Arthur Askey, had to lose their accent to get on the BBC.
John Lennon
#20. How will I make a people who do not understand the power of belief believe? And without their belief Mother Earth will wither and Yuletide will fade ... and so, too will I ... like all the spirits and gods before me.
Brom
#21. I think the more you hone your voice, take risks and talk about things that matter, the better chance you have of getting into the realm of the philosophers of stand up. But you have to be funny.
Ted Alexandro
#22. talk that TED later named "Why We Have Too Few Women Leaders"). Very
Sheryl Sandberg
#24. Forget about having an identity crisis and get some identity capital. ... Do something that adds value to who you are. Do something that's an investment in who you might want to be next.
Meg Jay
#25. I talk to the universe all the time.
Ted Lange
#26. I'm passionate about gay rights, but I think we need admit that there are some gay wrongs as well.
Dov Davidoff
#28. If you talk about people that lie, this Ted Cruz, this is the biggest liar I've ever seen.
Donald Trump
#29. It's weird: you do a TED talk on something, and people think that you suddenly have a lot of answers around the topic.
Chris Milk
#30. Seek the sound that never ceases. Seek the sun that never sets.
Rumi
#31. I can't swim in a sea of mediocrity and pretend I'm not drowning.
Tracy L. Darity
#32. I want to talk about jobs and health care and pension security and what we're going to do to stop the brain drain in Ohio and make it possible for our young people to stay here and build a life in Ohio rather than in Pennsylvania or West Virginia or God knows where.
Ted Strickland
#33. Give your main clause a little space. Prose is not like boxing; the skilled writer deliberately telegraphs his punch, knowing that the reader wants to take the message directly on the chin.
William Safire
#34. (Bonus points if the presentation is already available via a TED Talk, and they still asked you to perform in person.)
Anonymous
