It is probably safe to conclude that a part of this phenomenon is extraterrestrial, and that we are dealing with a number of different extraterrestrial races.
— Jonathan Caplan KC“At WeWork, we believe creators are anyone that's pursuing their passions and contributing to a mission. You may be an artist who is working on an innovative new project, a freelance software engineer providing client services or a director of HR at a Fortune 500 company that's trying to build a dynamic work environment for employees – regardless of your company size, title or function, you are working towards creating meaning, intention and purpose within your life.”— Miguel McKelvey
Co-founder of WeWork, co-working space company
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So that is clearly a phenomenon, and it is a structured solid craft, and we have no idea what it represents.
— Jonathan Caplan KCThe star exhibit would be a crashed craft or a biologic, which we know have been in the possession of the United States, for example, since the 1940s.
— Jonathan Caplan KCWhat you are really talking about are intelligent, non-human intelligences that are here in craft which perform in a way that is beyond our current technology.
— Jonathan Caplan KCOptimism isn't just a private belief. It is information that we are sharing with other people that becomes evidence of progress and possibility.
— Michelle GielanIf you do not speak up, your optimism has no effect on the room.
— Michelle GielanSometimes we fight so hard against the negative. But if we can bolster the positive, we can sometimes get to the same place.
— Michelle GielanResilience is not how you endure, it's how you recharge.
— Michelle GielanIt doesn't ask, was today good? It asks, what was good in today?
— Michelle GielanOptimism is the expectation of good things to happen. Resilient optimism is optimism that is built on a set of behaviours and stays strong when it's tested.
— Michelle GielanYou need to be able to hold two truths at the same time. Yes, this is difficult, and there's something we can do here. Yes, I don't know how the story ends, and I believe that my behaviour matters in this moment.
— Michelle GielanToxic positivity aims to edit out the problem.
— Michelle GielanWhat I study in the research is rational optimism. It's how you take a realistic assessment of the present moment while maintaining a belief that your behaviour matters, especially in the face of challenges.
— Michelle GielanOptimism doesn't stop cars from hitting us. It doesn't stop reality from negatively affecting us.
— Michelle GielanIt was not a psychological operation. It was good communication. And of course, so many of these things come back to good communication.
— Arthur DenaroPeople should recognise, before they enter a conflict, that there has to be an end state. There has to be, first of all, an exit plan, which will depend on what your aims are in the first place. Because if you have not got any aims, it is difficult to see how to come out of it.
— Arthur Denaro