So I was just telling the kiddos about some of the most influential characters in my life. Beings who have helped shape my world and my understanding of it. We spoke of Jane Goodall and Irene Pepperberg and Steve Irwin and many more who shared my love of the natural world and how it works. Bob Ross and his ability to always see the silver lining. Anne Frank and her inspirational life. And Scarlet the cat who showed how much love is truly there to be given and that even though you may appear to be defeated you still keep fighting. There are countless others but I am curious, who/what inspired you to grow into the beautiful little buttercup that you are today?
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.Apart from my folks, David Attenborough (reverence for nature), Terry Pratchett (morality), TISM (general attitude to life).
MrBeelzeebubbles
Level 7
Oct 21, 2018
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Real people include astronauts/cosmonauts/etc (all of them), Carl Sagan, Verity Lambert, and counless others whose names aren't coming to me at the moment.
The only fictional inspiration I had, still have and, indeed, need is the Doctor.
memorylikeasieve
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Oct 20, 2018
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In my lifetime, David Attenborough, Mohammed Ali (formerly Cassius Clay), Steven Hawking, Bob Weir, Nelson Mandela, Janis Joplin...
Flyingsaucesir
Level 8
Oct 20, 2018
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I don’t know but I think it all came from my loveless,shitty upbringing. Where I had to look for scraps of kind words from anybody. Where I learned how to be independent and sift through kindness and meanness. I was fortunate that some kind people turned up for me time to time. Having had to do this I truly appreciate people who do look out for others, people who are coserned for all of us not only for what is there for them.
Jolanta
Level 9
Oct 20, 2018
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I've never been described as a beautiful little buttercup before but to answer your question........I'm not entirely sure there is a who or a what. I certainly haven't modeled myself on anyone nor, as far as I'm aware, consciously tried to factor in someone's philosophy into my own. There have been a host of people who's lives have been amazing and inspiring, there are also others whom the world has revered but I am more guarded.
I think I am a mixture of parental guidance, schooling, experiences, my intelligence and intellect. I have picked some nuggets up along the way that still resonate but can't put a finger on a moment.
I would hope that I have learned how to think and would hope to pass that on to my kids so that they are well armed and will make up their own minds 
ipdg77
Level 8
Oct 20, 2018
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories, Ian Fleming's James Bond stories, Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn stories, John D. Rockefeller, Isaac Newton, Aristotle, Ayn Rand, Thomas Edison, Richard Feynman, Jack Welch, Maria Montessori, and many others...
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Oct 20, 2018
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