Wisdom in fragments

I'm a firm believer that creativity comes from restrictions, so I'm really grateful that I grew-up with so many restrictions around me. When you give someone complete freedom and a blank canvas, it could take forever to figure out what you want to do, but when you give people limitations and say, 'here's a canvas, but you can only paint with yellow..' – the wheels start turning, and you plan to get out of the box you're put in.

Professional wrestler and WWE performer, known as AJ Lee

It's become synonymous with clothing but ultimately fashion is anything popular in a culture at any given time.

Supermodel and fashion icon of the 1990s

Only relatively recently in our own culture, five hundred years or so ago, did a distinction arise that cut society in two, forming separate classes of music performers and music listeners.

Acclaimed film composer known for scores like The Lion King and Inception

Throughout most of the world and for most of human history, music making was as natural an activity as breathing and walking, and everyone participated.

Acclaimed film composer known for scores like The Lion King and Inception

The inexpressible depth of music... easy to understand and yet so inexplicable, is due to the fact that it reproduces all of the emotions of our innermost being, but entirely without reality and remote from its pain.

Acclaimed film composer known for scores like The Lion King and Inception

Music expresses only the quintessence of life and of its events, never these themselves.

Acclaimed film composer known for scores like The Lion King and Inception

We humans are a musical species no less than a linguistic one. We integrate all of these and 'construct' music in our minds using many different parts of the brain. And to this largely unconscious structural appreciation of music is added an often intense and profound emotional reaction to music.

Acclaimed film composer known for scores like The Lion King and Inception

I've described celebrities as being 'double agents of the patriarchy,' and whilst things are getting better- and language is changing, we are still not always calling out those who fat shame or age shame women.

Actress & Mental Health Advocate; Host of "The Good Place

We're up against corporate, almost criminal behaviour. We are up against corporations who are manipulating young, vulnerable people.

Actress & Mental Health Advocate; Host of "The Good Place

The happier I become with myself, the less I buy… the better my bank account becomes, because I'm not buying nonsense that I never needed.

Actress & Mental Health Advocate; Host of "The Good Place

The most important thing to realise is this; we control the market, the market does not control us.

Actress & Mental Health Advocate; Host of "The Good Place

Brands work on the principle that if you break down people's confidence, they will be much more vulnerable to advertising, and much more likely to go out and consume… much more likely to buy things to fix problems they didn't even know they had if it weren't for brands breaking their confidence in the first place.

Actress & Mental Health Advocate; Host of "The Good Place

It's taken for me to get into my 30s to realise I am more than the media told me I was- I have more to say, so do my friends. We are intelligent, we are strong, we are multi-faceted, we are vulgar and we are funny. It is because we haven't been given the opportunity to exercise these facets of ourselves in the media that we've started to doubt our ability.

Actress & Mental Health Advocate; Host of "The Good Place

It sounds strange but my system came to me in a sort-of almost otherworldly way. It was very powerful.

Stock Broker Convicted of Fraud; Subject of "The Wolf of Wall Street

When you have the confidence that you really are an expert closer, you're a competent closer, the word no doesn't matter, because you know that there's going to be a certain number of no's and a certain number of yes's.

Stock Broker Convicted of Fraud; Subject of "The Wolf of Wall Street

Every person is different, but every sale is the same.

Stock Broker Convicted of Fraud; Subject of "The Wolf of Wall Street