The physical and mental aspects of our lives are inseparable and taking care of the basic physical requirements is essential. Athletes and leaders rarely experience deep relaxation and this can become transformative in their lives.
— Daniel Donachie“Mixed martial arts aren't like boxing. In boxing, if you lose on your way up? It's pretty much career over. In mixed martial arts, there are so many ways to win and lose... When that happens, you say, 'OK, what did I do wrong?' – you have to be honest with yourself.”— Michael Bisping
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The sleep revolution is finally hitting the workplace. The business world is waking up to the high cost of sleep deprivation on productivity, health care, and ultimately the bottom line. I expect the nap room to soon become as universal as the conference room.
— Arianna HuffingtonCo-Founder of The Huffington Post & Wellness Advocate
When we're not well rested, we're not as healthy. Lack of sleep is often the culprit behind anxiety, stress, depression, and a myriad of health problems.
— Arianna HuffingtonCo-Founder of The Huffington Post & Wellness Advocate
This crisis is rooted in the collective delusion that burnout is the necessary price we must pay for accomplishment and success. Recent scientific findings make it clear that this couldn't be less true. Performance is actually improved when our lives include time for renewal.
— Arianna HuffingtonCo-Founder of The Huffington Post & Wellness Advocate
Cancer cells grow faster, adapt better. They are more perfect versions of ourselves.
— Dr. Siddhartha MukherjeePulitzer Prize-winning author and physician specializing in cancer biology
To confront cancer is to encounter a parallel species, one perhaps more adapted to survival than we are. This image- of cancer as our desperate, malevolent, contemporary doppelganger- is so haunting because it is at least partly true.
— Dr. Siddhartha MukherjeePulitzer Prize-winning author and physician specializing in cancer biology
Cancer, we now know, is a disease caused by the uncontrolled growth of a single cell. This growth is unleashed by mutations- changes in DNA that specifically affect genes that incite unlimited cell growth. In a normal cell, powerful genetic circuits regulate cell division and cell death. In a cancer cell, these circuits have been broken, unleashing a cell that cannot stop growing.
— Dr. Siddhartha MukherjeePulitzer Prize-winning author and physician specializing in cancer biology
It's the convergence of technologies at any given time that allow individuals to achieve the things which simply were not possible before. Your smartphone can be used to diagnose diseases for example – every disease has a pattern.
— Naveen JainEntrepreneur & Founder of Moon Express, Infosys Technologies Co-Founder
Mental health conditions are extraordinarily common, conservatively 1 in 4 of us will suffer from one or more in our lifetime, and I defy you to find someone who hasn't seen the impact firsthand.
— UnknownWe have to start breaking the toxic hyper-masculine alpha male attitude that has become the norm across businesses that you should always be hustling, never sleep, that rest is for wimps.
— UnknownAs business-leaders we have to start taking responsibility to speak-out about our own struggles, so that others do the same- and by doing so, make our teams and our peers realise that it's fine to not be fine.
— UnknownI have anxiety and depression, I don't 'suffer with them' as the description would normally go. I have them in the way I have arms, legs, eyes and a mouth, they are a part of me.
— UnknownEvery child deserves the chance to survive and thrive, to learn and be protected from harm. When we invest in children, we invest in our collective future.
— Carolyn MilesPresident and CEO of Save the Children International
To me, success is balancing your personal life and your work life. It's also being content and satisfied with what you accomplished so you can let it go and move forward.
— Donna KaranRenowned Fashion Designer & Founder of DKNY Brand
The only way you can experience the cosmic is by enhancing your perception. If your doors of perception are enhanced, everything becomes cosmic.
— SadhguruYoga Guru & Founder of Isha Foundation
Performance is a mental construction. You have to be present in your own body and mind, and when you achieve that presence, you can transcend physical and mental limitations.
— Marina AbramovićPerformance artist known for pushing boundaries of endurance and audience interaction