Wisdom in fragments

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

Understanding sales cuts to the core of basically why people say yes, why people give you rejections, and what has to line up in someone's mind before they say yes. It doesn't matter what you're selling, it could be offline or online, tangible or intangible, expensive or inexpensive. It doesn't matter what it is.

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

Only when I spent a year and a half writing a book, did I realise how long it takes you to do something to get a tangible result. It makes you respect money more when it comes from something you create, rather than just trading back and forth with someone else's cash.

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

I don't think it's money that corrupts people, I really don't. I think it's the idea that when you make money without having a tangible creation attached to that money, it has no value.

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

Images signify- mainly- something 'out there' in space and time that they have to make comprehensible to us as abstractions.

Pioneering British fashion photographer who revolutionized 1960s portrait photography

We scrutinise a photograph with a sense that we are scrutinising the actual objects themselves, although they are distanced from us in time and space.

Pioneering British fashion photographer who revolutionized 1960s portrait photography

When we look at a photograph, knowing that it is a photograph, we have a distinctive kind of experience: a visual confrontation with remote but actual objects and events.

Pioneering British fashion photographer who revolutionized 1960s portrait photography