“The single most important thing someone can do for a talk is to plan three or four rehearsals in front of people who are like the audience who will be receiving it; it may be one person or three, but you really should do that and discover what works, what doesn't, what's clumsy, what resonates.”
— Chris Anderson
Curator of TED Talks & Author of "The Long Tail

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I do not talk about life and death – I talk about birth and death, they are opposites, and life is simply a continuum of both, and you cannot have one without the other.

— Deepak Chopra

Wellness Entrepreneur & Author Promoting Mind-Body Medicine and Spirituality

For thousands of years, the religions, movements and philosophers of the various iterations of 'us' have espoused mindfulness as being an essential life-skill, bringing us from wherever we may be to the here and now- where we are at our most alive.

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

Founder of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program

We spend a huge amount of our lives away from the immediacy of our existence, lost in reflections on the past or anxieties of the future. This misadventure in episodic memory takes a huge toll on us, leading to stress, anxiety, depression and exacerbating a range of complex medical and psychological conditions we may have.

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

Founder of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program

We're heading to a world where we can eliminate disease, increase our intelligence, and access all the food, healthcare, energy and education we could desire.

— Peter Diamandis

Founder of X Prize Foundation & Singularity University

Meanwhile, she eschewed Bollywood beauty standards and was frequently castigated in the press for her unique fashion sense and fluctuating weight.

— Vidya Balan

Indian actress known for critically acclaimed roles in unconventional films

My Mom never recovered psychologically from being in the concentration camp; so, my aunt and uncle inherited me. They received this 'animal' with no social upbringing and turned me into a human being.

— Mario Capecchi

Nobel Prize Winner for Gene Targeting in Mice

Our number one instinct is survival, followed by reproduction. People started to realise that if they took care of themselves, they would live longer, have better sex and have healthier children.

— Chip Wilson

Founder of Lululemon Athletica, Canadian entrepreneur and philanthropist

Last week I was asked to help the NHS get video-consultations up and running in every GP practice in the country, in one week.

— Professor Trish Greenhalgh

Professor of Evidence-Based Medicine & Implementation Science at Oxford University

It's a roll of the dice whenever one of these novel viruses emerges; sometimes they will be severe and contagious enough to cause a problem, and this one is.

— Gideon Lichfield

We can take a hell of a lot more stress than we believe we can. We should learn how to fight not flight. And fight doesn't have to be a physical thing – it can be that you feel something's going to be uncomfortable 'okay well let's avoid it'. No, go through with it but go through with it in a progressive manner.

— John Kavanagh

Boxing coach of Conor McGregor at Straight Blast Gym Dublin

There's also a danger in acting of identifying yourself as an actor. We have to try to identify ourselves as human beings first, and our jobs second. I'm Sam, I act sometimes… not I am Sam, I am an actor.

— Sam Neill

Actor best known for Jurassic Park and The Piano films

The world simply cannot manage Covid-19 without international cooperation around the production and distribution of medical equipment, research and distribution of a vaccine, and the cooperation between economies needed to ensure that we all return to growth.

— Ngaire Woods

Director of the Blavatnik School of Government at Oxford University

In our low moments, music is our therapy, it helps us to cry, to breathe, or gives us the encouragement we need… it's our therapy. In our moments of happiness, music is our celebration… it's extraordinary.

— Ally Brooke

Former Fifth Harmony Member & Solo Artist

I was born premature, just 1lb 14oz, and my parents were told that survival chances for babies born so premature were low, and that it was likely I would grow up with disabilities if I survived. Praise God I survived, and I'm here today to live out my dreams.

— Ally Brooke

Former Fifth Harmony Member & Solo Artist

To break the silence around sexual abuse, more people need to speak about it… normalise it… and by doing so, hopefully we can start to get our children talking, and make some real progress to eliminate these acts from our society.

— Kalki Koechlin

Indian actress known for independent films and *Chandni Bar* role

By the middle of century, the temperature and humidity in parts of the world will be so high at parts of the year that the human system will not be able to cool itself, you are effectively being cooked. One of the places this will happen first, with potentially grave consequences, is the Arabian Peninsula- disrupting Hajj.

— James Thornton

Environmental lawyer and founder of ClientEarth