“Our vision statement was about elevating the world from a place of mediocrity to greatness.”

Founder of Lululemon Athletica, Canadian entrepreneur and philanthropist

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If you offer no vision for the future, someone else will. Our geopolitics cannot tolerate a vacuum, and if you retreat- whether physically or ideologically- someone else will come up with a plan which may not be complementary for democracy.

— Garry Kasparov

World Chess Champion & Political Activist Against Russian Authoritarianism

History is not linear, like the chapters of a book… History moves through seasons, and so winters are inevitable.

— Garry Kasparov

World Chess Champion & Political Activist Against Russian Authoritarianism

You shouldn't think of yourself as the person you are now – you are constantly changing – this is often called a growth mindset. When you think about human nature, you think of it as malleable, as something constantly growing and in-flux rather than something fixed.

— Angela Duckworth

Psychologist & Author of "Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance

Dogs, chipmunks, squirrels, fish and dolphins do not have a meta-cognitive understanding of themselves. A dog can feel sad (we think) but cannot have a meta-cognitive understanding of the fact they feel sad and what to therefore do about.

— Angela Duckworth

Psychologist & Author of "Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance

People who learn fast and who have some level of 'natural' talent may go home from practice early because they don't have to work as hard as others to get to their target level of achievement, but when you study super-achievers, you find that instead of going home early, they work late, and really pull-away from the crowd.

— Angela Duckworth

Psychologist & Author of "Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance

If you think of a candle- it's bright, but the light goes out in all directions, like a sphere. If you think of a laser beam- the light is concentrated in one direction, and it can be much more powerful than a candle. Goals focus our energy in the same way.

— Angela Duckworth

Psychologist & Author of "Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance

Most people we have worked with who have accomplished great things have an other-centred purpose, and that's never just 'make a lot of money…' – it could be to make women's lives easier, to close the inequality gap, to change the world, it's something which isn't strictly personal and selfish.

— Angela Duckworth

Psychologist & Author of "Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance

The human mind can shape itself – the human mind can take itself as an object and change – no other living creature on the planet can do that, and it gives me tremendous optimism.

— Angela Duckworth

Psychologist & Author of "Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance

Our disconnection from nature has led to such irreverence towards the earth, a kind of murderous environmental rampage, a collective matricide. We destroy the forests, we pollute the waters, we violate the earth to the point where environmental damage now threatens the long-term survival of our species.

— Marianne Williamson